Drs. Paul, Père et Fils

"There is nothing conservative about spending money we don’t have simply because that spending is for defense," says the father, to his colleagues in the House — More Blank Checks to the Military-Industrial Complex. "No enemy can harm us in the way we are harming ourselves, namely, bankrupting the nation and destroying our own currency."

Of the son, Kelley Vlahos says that "it is not yet clear where the younger Paul’s savvy campaigning ends and his true ideological impulses begin, particularly on national security and foreign policy" — Rand Paul Drinks Tea, Turns Into Hawk? "No one is entirely sure how to reconcile his more blistering critiques of the war during his father’s campaign with his more hawkish pronouncements – particularly on Iran as 'a dangerous threat to the Middle East' and against closing the Guantanamo Bay prison – during his own campaign."