GOP Candidate and Senator from Kentucky Rand Paul said on Sunday at CNN’s “State of the Union” that when it comes to foreign policy, fellow Republican candidate Marco Rubio and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton are “the same person”.
“I see her and Rubio as being the same person. They both want a no-fly zone. They both have supported activity in Libya, the war in Libya that toppled [Libyan prime minister] Gaddafi, an intervention that made us less safe.”
“They both have supported the Iraq War, so, I mean, what’s the difference?” he asked.
Paul added that Clinton is the candidate most likely to start a new war, describing her as a “neoconservative”.
The son of independent candidate Ron Paul also took a shot at former VP Dick Cheney, who’s been critical of Paul’s foreign policy.
“Yeah, well you know, Dick Cheney has been wrong about most of the foreign policy over the last several decades,” Paul said. “The last time he was right was when he warned the first George Bush that it would be a mistake to topple Hussein because you’d have chaos and instability and you’d destabilize the region, which is exactly what happened after the Iraq War.”
Paul pointed out a poll that shows Republicans are in favor of lowering U.S. involvement in foreign wars. He also said that Sen. Rubio would not be able to outrun the immigration-reform bill he briefly supported in the Senate.
“He was a coauthor of the bill, I mean, it was a Rubio bill, it was a Rubio-Schumer bill, so he will have to explain it,” he said. “I think it will be a big part of things.”