Good look trying to win the 2016 GOP nominee with info like this:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has managed to attach his name to Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano. The same Andrew Napolitano who's pushed 9/11 conspiracy theories and defended a former aide to Paul who had "neo-Confederate" and "pro-secessionist" views, according to Media Matters.
Paul wrote the foreword in Napolitano's new book: Suicide Pact: The Radical Expansion of Presidential Powers and the Assault on Civil Liberties, which is described by the book's publisher as "a shocking chronicle of America's descent from a fee society to a frightening surveillance state."
"Now President Obama says he just wants to 'balance' liberty and national security," Paul writes in the book. "Judge Napolitano succinctly answers President Obama. To Napolitano, it isn't possible to balance rights and security 'rights and [national security] are essentially and metaphysically so different that they cannot be balanced against each other."
Paul goes on to praise Napolitano for unravelling "the labyrinthine assault on civil liberties that has taken place as a side effect of the War on Terror." - TPM, 11/10/14
Here's some more background info:
http://mediamatters.org/...
Napolitano and Paul are both closely associated with conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones.
Before his election in 2010, Sen. Paul was a frequent guest on The Alex Jones Show, which also helped him raise money for his campaign. Jones is one of the leaders of the "9-11 truth" movement, which contends that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were an "inside job" orchestrated by the U.S. government.
Jones was also a big supporter of Ron Paul's (Rand's father) political career. Following an interview with Ron Paul in 2013, Jones told viewers that had known Rand Paul for more than fifteen years and predicted that "he'll probably end up being president if we turn this country around."
Napolitano has made numerous appearances on Jones' show. During a 2010 interview, Napolitano told Jones, "It's hard for me to believe that [World Trade Center building 7] came down by itself," adding, "I think twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn't possibly have been done the way the government told us." After his appearance, families of 9-11 victims criticized Napolitano for being "willfully ignorant of the facts surrounding the collapse of WTC 7."
Prior to Napolitano pushing 9-11 truther nonsense with Jones, the Fox News contributor had previously appeared on his show to promote conspiracies about "one world government" and the Federal Reserve, among other things.
In 2009, Napolitano told Jones, "you, my friend, are doing more than anybody I know -- I'm trying to keep up with you to educate the public in the dangers of too much government. And guess what? The message is getting through, Alex." - Media Matters For America, 11/10/14
Again, good luck with your 2016 campaign there.