Daily Koz - In two interviews, Rand Paul has declared that what Rand Paul used to say is now off-limits. It's not fair, Paul testily claims, to ask him about stuff that he said before he decided to be a presidential candidate. Because that was before, or "a long time ago." As long ago as 2009, when he was a Senate candidate.
Sean Hannity, not surprisingly, let him get away with it. On the previous Paul statement that the idea of Iran being a threat to the United States is "ridiculous":
"You know, things do change over time," Paul said. "I also wasn't campaigning for myself, I was campaigning to help my father at the time."...
A slightly less friendly interviewer, Savannah Guthrie, touching on the same ground saw the notoriously thin-skinned Paul, who totally blew up at her presumption of pointing out to him that his views on foreign policy "seem to have changed over the years," with examples of things he has actually said.
"Why don’t we let me explain instead of talking over me, OK?" Paul interjected. "Before we go through a litany of things you say I've changed on, why don't you ask me a question, 'Have I changed my opinion?' That would sort of a better way to approach an interview."
"Is Iran still not a threat?" Guthrie asked in the cross-talk.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, you've editorialized," Paul said. "Let me answer a question. You ask a question, and you say, 'Have your views changed?' instead of editorializing and saying my views have changed."
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