Can't see why there is all this gushiness over Rand Paul. He's a whack, his father's a whack, but Conservatards go nuts over him like their teenage daughters over Justin Beiber.
Don't understand the Justin Beiber thing, either.
I haven't seen much "gushiness" over Rand, in all honesty. His desperate attempts to be taken seriously by the Republican establishment have been flops as far as I can tell. His Heritage Foundation speech was laughed at, and his position on Hagel has lacked any kind of intellectual consistency. He's also alienated a large portion of his father's base with some of his foreign policy positions.