"Republicans audition for 2016 election; At conference, activists look for new candidate" by Ken Thomas | Associated Press, March 17, 2013
OXON HILL, Md. — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky basked in the glow of his recent lengthy filibuster as he scanned a sea of ‘‘Stand With Rand’’ signs.
Participants in the conference later gave Paul a narrow victory in their presidential preference poll Saturday.
He won 25 percent of the vote in the unscientific straw poll, just ahead of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who had 23 percent. Former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was third with 8 percent.
Paul, a favorite of younger libertarians who packed the hall, called for a new direction in Republican politics: ‘‘The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered.’’
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Yeah, that's all nice, but I've given up on Rand since he said he'd have no problem with a drone blowing away a guy who robbed a liquor store.
