On Rand Paul.......................

From The Economist:

Mr Paul dreams big.  He wants to build  never-seen coalitions including Christian conservatives, civil libertarians, the war weary, and traditional Democrats sick of bad schools, harsh justice and economic stagnation.  It is already a stretch to think that such mutually antagonistic voter groups would not fight and repel on another.   More problematically, the centre post holding up his big tent is distrust of government.  In each policy area that he calls a failure, his diagnosis is state overreach.