Rand: Rubio, Hillary, McCain Think We Can Spread Democracy by Toppling Dictators

MONTGOMERY KENNEDY: “All right. Well, let’s focus on the presidency a little bit. You are running for president. One of the big debates is coming up next week right here on FOX Business Network. It’s going to be next Thursday. What do you plan on doing differently in this debate that so far you feel you haven’t done in some of the past GOP debates?” 
PAUL: “We actually think we’ve been doing pretty well on the debate.”
MONTGOMERY KENNEDY: “I think you’ve done well the last two. The last one especially, you made some really, really good point that I think hit.”
PAUL: “It takes a while to get your message out when you are doing it 30 and 60 seconds at a time. What we did in the last two debates we have gotten a little bit more time to express our message, plus the dominant theme of last debate was regime change, whether it’s a good idea to topple Saddam Hussein — I think was a bad idea. Whether it’s a good idea to topple Gaddafi in Libya. I thought it was a bad idea. And then currently, whether it’s a good idea to topple Assad. I think if you topple Assad — and there are many people still calling for this, Hillary Clinton wants to do it, Rubio wants to do it.”
MONTGOMERY KENNEDY: “Yeah.”
PAUL: “McCain and Graham want to do it. All of the new conservatives think that we are going to spread freedom of and democracy, and then when we topple Assad Thomas Jefferson will rise from the ashes and we’ll elect Thomas Jefferson.”
MONTGOMERY KENNEDY: “Well, that hasn’t happened in Libya. That hasn’t happened in Egypt or Yemen or anywhere else in the Middle East.”
PAUL: “In fact it’s the opposite.”
MONTGOMERY KENNEDY: “Yeah.”
PAUL: “In fact what I think happens if you topple Assad, I think ISIS takes over Syria and will be in Damascus in short order. So, it’s a good debate. We haven’t had this debate in a Republican [indecipherable] in a serious way really in a long time. So, I feel like we’re making progress in the debates, not only personally but intellectually. The libertarian ideas of less intervention in the Middle East I think are making progress.”