Paul’s place in the spotlight is already drawing fire from Democrats. On Tuesday night at a fundraiser for Rep Edward Markey, the Democratic nominee in the upcoming special election for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Vice President Joe Biden slammed Paul as a sinister power in the modern Republican Party. Biden told attendees that the GOP had become “beholden” to Paul as well as Ted Cruz. He said that many Republican senators had told him that they had not supported gun-control measures like Toomey-Manchin in the wake of the Newtown massacre because “I don’t want to take on Rand Paul.”
The Kentucky senator was always well positioned to take the forefront of the debate on privacy with the NSA’s revelations but, with his efforts both to make himself a crucial vote on immigration as well as to shore up his credentials among social conservatives—telling attendees Wednesday about his commitment to defending life from conception to the last dying breath—he’s now made himself one of the key powerbrokers in the Republican conference.
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