Young Senator Paul, recognizably intoxicated, by the possibility of what, at Washington, passes for, the idea of power, could do with a more creative speechwriter.

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We did very much like Rand Paul’s Daddy, very much, we did.

Old Dr. Paul had a sense of humor, rare as hen’s tooth at Washington and rarer still, old Dr. Paul held to a cheery self-deprecation, a flower worn in his lapel that is the most unique bloom of all in this dismal city, a bloom not worn and a self-deprecation utterly lost on all other men at Washington, and sadly so, lost likewise, on his own son, Rand Paul, an apple who appears to have fallen from a far distant and different tree altogether from Daddy.

The lugubrious, melancholic, young Senator Paul today has announced his ambition to be President and says, as do all ambitious American candidates:

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“We have come to take our country back!”

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Left, right and center, all American candidates always say these same tiresome, predictable and bromidic things:

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“We are going to take our country back!”

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The inference and implication of course being that the country has been hijacked by an alien force not related,

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By blood or by marriage,

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To the “WE of OUR country.”

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This, ceaselessly repetitive, clarion call presupposes and assumes that there is a discernibly legitimate WE who own the country and an impartially, discernibly legitimate, place for us to take OUR country back to.

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The incumbent President has said just the same words to his flock repeatedly.

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All ambitious candidates claim to speak for the WE, who rightly own, OUR country.

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The Americans themselves are left wondering, as ever, as always, these things, young Paul:

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“Just who are WE and where are WE taking OUR country back to?”

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Or, as less polite, more direct, men than ourselves might put it to Rand Paul on hearing his announcement of ambition:

“Oh, yeah, and just who in the hell are WE?”

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