2011: Rand Paul “Most Interesting Man in Senate.” Now: “Most Interesting Man in Politics.”

Time magazine’s cover story on Rand Paul
starts like this:

Can he fix what ails the GOP?

The tattooed and pierced longhairs never showed up to see
Senator Rand Paul speak with students at the University of South
Carolina in Columbia last month. Those in attendance drew instead
from the preppy set, with brushed bangs, blue blazers and proper
hemlines, some wearing sunglasses on neck straps like jock jewelry.
They mostly hailed from college Republican circles, and the room
where they gathered, a wood-stained memorial to the state’s old
power structure, was named for the politician who led the fight to
protect school segregation in the 1960s.

You could call them activists, even rebels in their way. But
this was not a gathering of losers and outcasts. Paul knew
this.

Whole
thing here.

Back in 2011, Reason dubbed Paul “the most interesting
man in the Senate” and put him on our cover. Congratulations
on the promotion, senator.

Our most recent interview with Paul, from this past summer, when
he announced “Republicans could only win in general if they become
more live and let live.”
Transcript here. Click below to watch: