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Rand Paul still isn’t ready for prime time

By Philip Klein
Published November 7, 2013 5:00am ET
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Rand Paul still isn’t ready for prime time
The latest controversy surrounding Paul involves a pattern of plagiarism in which he has cut and pasted large sections of his writings from other sources without proper attribution. (AP File) | Aron Heller

Sen. Rand Paul was supposed to be a more politically savvy version of his father, former Texas congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul.

The senior Paul energized a subset of the Republican Party, but the younger Paul was supposed to be a more mainstream advocate for limited government and a non-interventionist foreign policy.

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