Rand Paul has become Taylor Swift

2016

Published on June 3rd, 2015 | by Caleb Franz

Rand Paul is continually in the national headlines today and A LOT of people do not like it. while his national favorability is on the incline, nearly everyone with any form of political power or influence literally hates him, but that’s okay. Rand has taken on a new outlook at life and has adopted some Taylor Swift lyrics as his own personal anthem: All the Haters gonna Hate, but Rand just Shakes it off.

I don’t think it is possible to have a burning passion AGAINST something as much as John McCain has against Rand Paul. He hardly ever menses words when talking about the presidential hopeful. In 2013 after Paul finished his 13 hour filibuster against drone policy, McCain was the first to express his disgust over what happened, calling him a Wacko Bird. It got even more tense on the Senate floor when Paul was requesting to speak for five minutes and McCain was doing everything to stop him just hours before the PATRIOT Act expired. Ultimately Paul got to speak and McCain was pissed.

You mad, bro?

Though McCain’s disgust at Paul is strong, Senator and now Presidential candidate Lindsey Graham does not have too much of a higher opinion of him. While the senate was debating the PATRIOT Act reauthorization before they took a brake during Memorial Day week, Paul was going to ensure that no such reauthorization occurred. Almost immediately after Rand began to speak, many took notice that Graham began rolling his eyes at what Paul was saying. The Rand 2016 camp also took notice, and cautioned everyone to watch out for the “eye-rolling caucus”.

Since we are talking about what happened the night before the senate took a recess, let’s talk Mitch McConnell. Not sure that McConnell was mad so much as he was desperately sad. Mitch tried four different times to prevent the Act from expiring. He tried to extend it from as much as a week to as little as a day.

How did Paul react to such requests?

“I Object!”

But let’s not just point out the republicans, because literally anyone who has power hates him right now.

Barack Obama is likely not too happy right now with Paul. During the week leading up to the battle over the PATRIOT Act, Rand called Barack Obama out specifically for his flip flop on his stance on the PATRIOT Act and NSA surveillance. Barack’s past came back to haunt him as Senator Obama’s words were used against President Obama who now conveniently likes and defends the surveillance programs. I’m just going to go ahead and guess that Rand Paul isn’t going to be invited to the next White House Correspondents Dinner.

Doubt Rand is going to lose any sleep over it though.

Though Hillary Clinton has been in hiding ever since her campaign kicked off, I’m going to say that she is affected the most by Paul’s latest actions. She has been doing worse in the polls as time goes on, but no one has proven to be a bigger thorn in Hillary’s side than Rand Paul when they are pitted up against each other. But when you don’t have time to talk to “the little people” — or even appear in public — it probably isn’t too difficult knock her off her high horse.

If we are to be honest though, what difference does it make?

While Rand has made a lot of enemies for making a stand for liberty, there still are some people in DC who considers him to be a good guy. Congressmen Thomas Massie (Kentucky) and Justin Amash (Michigan) stood with Rand the entire time during his battle against the PATRIOT Act. As they left the senate chamber after it became painfully obvious they won the battle, a picture was taken showing just how badass they were.

And just a few photo shop edits later makes it even better. #SquadGoals

Sure, Rand has his haters, but as Taylor Swift says, Haters gonna hate — or in this case, Statists gonna state — but Rand’s popularity among the people is on the rise. He won a crucial battle when fighting the PATRIOT Act on the side of liberty.

To Rand, haters are the last thing on his mind. He just shakes it off.

Tags: 2015, paul, Rand Paul, Taylor Swift