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Ivan Eland Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty, The Independent Institute

Rick Perry Smears Rand Paul

Posted: 07/14/2014

Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, in an apparent attempt to begin to better his abysmal showing in the last round of presidential primaries in 2012, recently attacked the current leader in Republican polls, Rand Paul, on his perceived vulnerability--foreign policy. In the piece "Isolationist Policies Make the Threat of Terrorism Greater" in the Washington Post, Perry endeavored to smear Paul's views by calling them "isolationist" and linking him to the "leading from behind" policies of President Barack Obama. At the same time, Perry tried to use a trick that many Republican candidates regularly use--to link themselves to the "internationalist" Ronald Reagan.