Dr. Paul was kind enough to take time out of his insane campaign schedule to answer some questions for us. Check out Rand Paul’s second interview with Liberty Maven below.

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LM:  Immediately following your landslide victory over Trey Grayson in the primary, the left-leaning media began attacking you and the attacks have not eased up. Thinking back, prior to your primary victory you probably anticipated being attacked from the left, but did you believe the attacks would be so unrelenting and national in scope as they have turned out to be? Do you fault yourself for inviting the initial attacks a bit, by agreeing to go on Rachel Maddow’s show the day after your victory?

Rand Paul: Our election night victory was spectacular. We won by 24 points. Over 500 people gathered for our victory. We had satellite TV trucks from every network and did 15 national interviews the next day. But it didn’t take long for the media to decide that they were going to be less than neutral after our victory. Since then it has been relentless attacks from the left-wing media in Kentucky and the left-wing media nationally. I joke with people that it was like Dickens wrote in the Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. But the good news is that the polls still show us with a double digit lead, despite all of their attacks. I think the mood of the country is for reigning in big government, for controlling the deficit, and for bringing attention back to a government that should be restrained by the Constitution.

It’s always easy to look backwards and say I could have, or should have done one thing or another. In retrospect, going on a Left-leaning network that apparently had an agenda since they had been discussing it all afternoon and misconstruing my position was probably not a good idea.

LM: Do you believe that there will still be a “Tea Party” movement in 2013 if Obama is defeated by a Republican in 2012?

Rand Paul: I think the Tea Party Movement has staying power. I think it is an extraordinary movement because it wasn’t started by any one political leader or famous person. It truly started by itself in every individual city in Kentucky and every individual city across the country. One of the problems of it getting bigger is that they all are not connected, but it is also one of the beauties and powers of the movement is that it has so much spontaneous involvement of individual citizens around the country.

Whether or not it will last beyond that, I think it will have influence in the November elections and from that will decide. I think that it’s had a great influence in nominating Mike Lee in Utah and Sharon Angle in Nevada, and nominating me here in Kentucky. So there are at least three big statewide races that I think the tea party had great influence in.

LM: Last week the financial regulatory effort made headway with the Dodd-Frank “compromise” bill. The stated goal of the bill is to prevent another financial crisis. President Obama touted the new agency created by the bill by saying, “Now there will be one agency whose sole job will be to look out for you.” His remarks remind me of Reagan’s famous quote: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

Do you believe the newly created regulatory agency will truly be independent?

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His efforts over the last few days, however, to embrace as political tools baseless issues about Dr. Rand Paul, his opponent, are both laughable and pathetic.

First, Conway raised a question about Paul’s certification as an eye surgeon by an ophthalmologist group. It turns out that Paul had taken a very principled stand in opposition to the group’s requirement that younger doctors be recertified periodically while exempting older doctors from this requirement.

This sounds like second- class citizenship. Conway, who tried unsuccessfully to paint Paul as a racist several weeks ago, apparently wouldn’t recognize discrimination if he tripped and fell over it.

Conway compounded this folly by criticizing Dr. Paul for advocating less government while accepting Medicare and Medicaid payments.

Where would Medicare and Medicaid patients be if all politically conservative doctors, and there are many, refused to treat them? This would work a terrible hardship on many of our older and poorer citizens. Paul, to his credit, chooses not to discriminate against these patients.

Conway’s efforts to change the subject suggest desperation by his campaign. What Kentuckians really want to learn from Conway is why he supports a cap and trade bill pending in Congress that would have a very negative impact on his potential constituents’ utility bills because of our state’s heavy reliance on coal-fired generating plants.

They would also like to know where was the Constitution when Congress mandated that every citizen be forced to buy health insurance regardless of their desire for it.

This is part of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid version of health care legislation that Conway supported.

Finally, Kentuckians wonder why Conway is reluctant to ask President Obama to campaign for him in Kentucky.

Never mind. We are reminded once again why Conway is desperate to change the subject.

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They didn’t ask Dr. Rand Paul whether he was certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology or the National Board of Ophthalmology. Paul removed their cataracts and placed an intraocular lens and did post-operative laser work. Paul did this at no charge through the Children of the Americas program. Paul founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Bank, which performs surgery and eye exams on those patients unable to qualify for government care or private insurance.

Paul sees hundreds of patients each year for little or no pay through the Lions clinic. Now, for political reasons, The Courier-Journal wants to criticize Paul for arguing that all doctors should recertify, not just the younger ones. Am I the only one who thinks The Courier-Journal is not treating Paul fairly?

MICHAEL MACFARLANE, M.D.

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As we continue our fight for Liberty, it’s good to remember that we’re rapidly gaining ground.  Good men and women from across the nation have joined in our fight, including many members of the Tea Party.

I think it’s important to note that the Tea Party’s message is one that can easily reach outside of the Republican party, to Independents and Democrats, who are also sick of out of control government, tired of massive deficits, and have had their fill of career politicians who just don’t get it.

That’s why my platform of reform is important.  We must balance the budget and end deficit spending.  We have to fight for Term Limits, and for an end to earmarks.   We need to force them to read the bills, and to pass bills that have constitutional justification for federal action.

If you’d like to hear me talk more about these principles – and many more – there’s a great opportunity tomorrow morning.

I’ll be a guest on Freedom Watch, Saturday, June 11 at 10am EST on Fox Business Channel. So set your DVRs or tune-in!

Other guests will include my father, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin, Senator Jim DeMint, and more!

Tune in tomorrow for this “Tea Party Summit” and hear how the outsiders are shaking up the establishment this year, and how you can help take our government back!

In Liberty,

Rand Paul MD

P.S. If you miss the show Saturday Morning, it will re-air at 8pm Saturday and on Sunday, at 7pm and 11pm.

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The New York Sun wasn’t publishing in 1964, but we have no doubt that it would have supported the Civil Rights Act, as the editor who now conducts these columns did then and as the Sun does now. We revere the great figures of the civil rights movement. When their names — Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Thurgood Marshall, to mark but three who are still in the news columns — come up at the dinner table, we speak to our children about their righteousness, courage, and heroism. We haven’t the slightest hesitation in supporting the authority of the federal government to outlaw racial discrimination in public or private businesses and myriad private transactions, such as, say, the sale of real estate. We favor aggressive enforcement of civil rights laws, even after the dismantling of Jim Crow.

If we were voting in Kentucky today, however, we’d vote for Rand Paul for senator. It’s not that we care to cavil about the fine points of the Civil Rights Act. It’s no mere artifact of a great struggle. On the contrary, we’re of the view that without it, the danger of a retreat would be a constant worry, even in the early 21^st century. But the law itself is settled and secure. What does not seem settled and secure are other matters — property rights, say — on which Dr. Paul stands heads and shoulders above his opponent, Jack Conway, one of the most aggressive state attorneys general advanced by a Democratic party that has shown scant regard for the principles of federalism, for the constitutional contract that undergirds our republic, and for the negative way the constitution vouchsafes our rights.

By this we mean, Dr. Paul comprehends that the Bill of Rights is largely a prohibition on the government. When one listens to him talk, one gets the sense that he comprehends that the Founders of America feared that the biggest threat to our rights was from our own government. He has this streak of constitutional fundamentalism that one hears among the Tea Party enthusiasts, but among not only them. One hears it from the Libertarians, and from a growing number of neoconservatives who are taking a fresh look at the Constitution at a time when advocates of limited government are unlikely to find much encouragement from the Congress or the administration.

There are those who belittle this constitutionalist streak, including, to pick a recent example, the columnist Michael Gerson, who, Ira Stoll noted in a post at Futureofcapitalism.com, complained of what “might be called ‘constitutional conservatism.’” Mr. Gerson reckons such conservatism has “the virtue of being easily explainable — and the drawback of being impossible.” This prompted Mr. Stoll to point out that it did pretty well — not flawlessly, but pretty well — in the century-and-a-half before the New Deal. By our lights the blitheness with which so many are prepared to breeze past the plain language of the Constitution, and past such bedrock as the idea of enumerated powers, is breathtaking. That Rand Paul has the grit to challenge all this is, we’d like to think, connected to his popularity.

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This is one of the traits of both of the Pauls, father and son. We have many times remarked that we part company with them, and other libertarians, on many aspects of foreign policy (though Ron Paul would not abandon the fight against Al Qaeda; we have already endorsed his plan to use against Osama Bin Laden Congress’s power to grant letters of marque and reprisal). But they are an outstanding pair when it comes to this idea of constitutional conservatism — or, our preference, plain language constitutionalism. A lot of things can happen between now and election day. But our guess is that if Rand Paul prevails, one of the reasons will be his attention to the theoretical underpinnings of our constitutional republic, a trait that he shares with the architects of the Civil Rights Act we amire so much.

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