Rand Paul’s Presidential Campaign Launch: Good and Bad

The Promises and Pitfalls of Paul's Vision for America

Senator Rand Paul officially launched his 2016 presidential campaign last Tuesday, calling for “a return to a government restrained by the Constitution” and for a “return to privacy, opportunity, liberty.”

Paul noted that “too often when Republicans have won we have squandered our victory by becoming part of the Washington machine” and that “big governme…