Why is he talking like that? Maybe he does not want Ted Cruz stealing his thunder with a filibuster in the senate.
Excellent point. Rand wants to be the star, like he was for the drone wars, but Cruz, if he really succeeds in shifting the populated momentum on Obamacare, from a position of surrender to a position of fighting it to the death, he would rise to the status of legendary hero. Arguments about his eligibility notwithstanding, he would become unstoppable. Paul can’t let that happen. So he’s wounding the Cruz resistance just enough to derail the Cruz ascendancy, but not enough to alienate his own eventual base. A dangerous calculation, if we are seeing it correctly.