Tea Party U.S. Senator and potential 2016 Presidential contender, Rand Paul (R. KY), had some fighting words towards former Secretary of State and Democratic Presidential frontrunner, Hillary Clinton:
Calling Hillary Rodham Clinton "a war hawk," Sen. Rand Paul says that if the former secretary of state seeks the presidency, some voters will worry that she will get the U.S. involved in another Mideast war.
Paul is a leading anti-interventionist in the GOP and is considering running for president. Last year he opposed President Barack Obama's call for military action in Syria.
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press," Paul predicted a "transformational election" if the Democrats nominate "a war hawk like Hillary Clinton."
"I think that's what scares the Democrats the most, is that in a general election, were I to run, there's gonna be a lot of independents and even some Democrats who say, 'You know what? We are tired of war,'" Paul said. "We're worried that Hillary Clinton will get us involved in another Middle Eastern war, because she's so gung-ho."
As a senator in 2002, Clinton voted in favor of giving President George W. Bush the broad authority to invade Iraq. She has said over the years that she regrets that vote, and in her new book "Hard Choices" wrote that "I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."
We'll have to wait and see if Paul's attacks translate into a platform that translates to voters.
