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Last night, Rand Paul changed american politics.\u00a0\u00a0 His filibuster was a stroke of genius.\u00a0 While Lindsey Graham and John McCain were dining with Obama, Rand Paul reminded us all of the power of principle over politics.\u00a0 He simply and eloquently said you either believe in the constitution or you don’t.\u00a0 He did this so well that\u00a0liberal and progressive Senators were stunned.\u00a0 Dick Durbin even asked him questions that made the impact of the filibuster more signficant.\u00a0 By acknowledging that Rand Paul was asking a seriious question and by engaging in a serious conversation with him, Durbin made Rand Pauls comments\u00a0impossible to ignore.\u00a0 It is hard to argue with his point that the President of the United States doesn’t have the power to just kill American citizens in the United States just because he thinks it’s a good idea.<\/p>\n

Rand Paul did not shout.\u00a0 He did not make outrageous attacks.\u00a0 He even said a couple of nice things about Obama.\u00a0 Yet, with\u00a0his quiet, but reasoned performance, he delivered a devastating rebuke to the Obama administration.\u00a0 The quieter he spoke, the louder he was heard.\u00a0 Even die hard liberals are having a hard time arguing with Rand Paul this morning.<\/p>\n

But an even more important star emerged with the public unveiling of Ted Cruz.\u00a0 I thought Ted Cruz was just another Tea Party candidate.\u00a0 The main stream media has painted him as another light weight swept into power by\u00a0over enthusiastic Tea Party supporters.\u00a0 But after I watched Cruz eviscerate Eric Holder during his cross examination I decided it was time to research this man.\u00a0 It turns out that Ted Cruz is one heck of an attorney.\u00a0\u00a0 Cruz graduated from Yale and Harvard and unlike Obama his academic performance at Harvard is well documented.\u00a0 He “earned” a position as editor of the Harvard Law Review, he was an executive editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review and he founded the Harvard Latino Law Review.\u00a0 He is also\u00a0a brilliant debater and twice was voted the speaker of the year at national debate conferences.\u00a0 As a private attorney he argued cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court and he was the Solicitor General for the State of Texas.\u00a0 That is the kind of position you give to a real attorney, rather than the political position of Attorney General.\u00a0 This is one of the most intellectually capable people in the United States Senate and no one should make the mistake of underestimating him.\u00a0 Eric Holder finally came face to face with a real live capable attorney and the result was devastating.<\/p>\n

Both John McCain and Lindsey Graham responded by ripping Rand Paul this morning in speeches to the entire senate.\u00a0 It was a huge mistake:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/inside-politics\/2013\/mar\/7\/graham-mccain-blast-paul-filibuster\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Republican Party hasn’t seen this kind of talent in decades.\u00a0 Ronald Reagan was the great communicator, but Ted Cruz is a great communicator who gradued Magna Cum Laude with a JD fromHarvard.\u00a0 Rand Paul is a medical doctor, a man of principle with a\u00a0rare ability to make arguments that are compelling even to political opponents.\u00a0 While McCain and Graham were dining with the President, liberal Senators were being mesmerized by the rarest sight in Washington, a man standing firm and alone, on a matter of principle\u00a0refusing to be intimidated.\u00a0 McCain and Graham would have been wise to applaud such courage rather than to try and suppress it.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Graham and John McCain are acting this way because they know they have just been pushed off the public stage by Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.\u00a0 When politicians have to try and explain to people why they are important, it is because they aren’t.\u00a0 The torch has been passed.\u00a0 The RINO leadership of the Republican Party was blown off the national stage by the soft but eloquent words of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.\u00a0 It’s a beautiful thing.<\/p>\n

UPDATE.\u00a0 While Lindsey Graham and John McCain were explaining why Rand Paul was so naive and stupid, Eric Holder was busy caving, because it worked:<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/interactive\/2013\/03\/07\/letter-from-holder-to-sen-paul-on-drone-authority\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Graham and McCain just embarrassed themselves.<\/p>\n

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TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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