Add Sen. Rand Paul to the list of Republicans who don't see any reason at all they might want to investigate what now-resigned Trump adviser Michael Flynn discussed with Russia. His reason is particularly blunt.
“I just don’t think it’s useful to be doing investigation after investigation, particularly of your own party,” he said.
“We’ll never even get started with doing the things we need to do like repealing ObamaCare if we’re spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans. I think it makes no sense."
Indeed, investigating wrongdoing by fellow Republicans would be so divisive. So distracting. Maybe people have been breaking laws, maybe not, but what's truly important here is that the party remain protected. Party over country—that's how that goes, right?
Rand Paul had, and probably still has, dreams of being president himself. He was supposed to be one of those "serious" Republicans pundits like to drone on about, the ones who might at some point in some small way do the right thing if, ya know, you really backed them into a corner on it.
Nope. Turns out he’s just a hack.