Rand Paul In Middle School

For reasons I cannot understand, likely because the drugs required for understanding remain very much illegal, Rand Paul is still trying to appeal to the "libertarian" contingent, while at the same time arguing that the war on drug users (unless they use alcohol or prescription pharmaceuticals, of course) is a vital and necessary government function.

I begin to suspect that a certain breed of Republican who cultivates (or at least doesn't disavow too explicitly) the libertarian label is like that kid we all knew in middle school, the one who never touched alcohol in his life yet goes to the school dance and insists he is sooooo wasted and soooo totally drunk: wanting a touch of "badass maverick" street cred despite being thoroughly obedient to authority.