What does that have to do with the threat to conservatism that Paul poses, he seems OK on the spying issue, it is the places where he is liberal that is the problem.
Looks like many here missed these threads. Too bad.
Rand Paul: Republicans Need to Soften on Social Issues http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133629/posts
Rand Paul: Republicans must agree to disagree on social issues in order to grow the party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133298/posts
Rand Paul: GOP Must ‘Agree to Disagree’ on Social Issues in Order to Expand Party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3133268/posts
Classical liberalism is a political philosophy that supports individual rights as pre-existing the state, a government that exists to protect those moral rights, ensured by a constitution that protects individual autonomy from other individuals and governmental power, private property, and a laissez-faire economic policy. The “normative core” of classical liberalism is the idea that in an environment of laissez-faire, a spontaneous order of cooperation in exchanging goods and services emerges that satisfies human wants.
The early liberal figures now described as “classical liberals” rejected many foundational assumptions which dominated most earlier theories of government, such as the Divine Right of Kings, hereditary status, and established religion, and focuses on individual freedom, reason, justice and tolerance. Such thinkers and their ideas helped to inspire the American Revolution and French Revolution.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Classical_liberal