If Rand Paul is eccentric, then we need a LOT more eccentrics like him in the Republican Party. He certainly jarred the opposition, shook them to their very roots, as it were.
And that included the John McCains and Lindsey Grahams, also sometimes referred to as “RINOs”, those who are perfectly happy to keep the balance of interaction with the Current Regime on a cozy level of amity and what they believe to be mutual admiration.
However, the admiration only flows one direction. Bronco Bama really despises all and anybody who have the termity to call themselves “Republican”, no matter what stripe.
Except Rand’s eccentricity includes being pro-amnesty, which is the death to conservatism and the US.