VIDEO: Rand Paul Gives Watershed Speech: A Realistic Foreign Policy

This Wednesday, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:00 AM EST, Senator Rand Paul is set to give a ground breaking speech to the Heritage Foundation he’s calling “The Founders’ Vision of Foreign Policy.” While the speech may not seem like anything new to the Tea Party and libertarian groups within the GOP, it represents a real watershed event within the conservative movement, second only to the election of Rand Paul to the Senate.

UPDATE: Video now available…and full text.

“A realist foreign-policy vision that is neither imperialistic nor isolationist.”

While the grassroots of the Republican party have become accustomed to Ron Paul’s philosophy of noninterventionism, penetrating the beltway culture with ideas that challenge the status quo on foreign policy has been an uphill battle. With so many congress members in cozy relationships with military contractors within the Democrat and the Republican parties, it’s easy to understand why you don’t hear of the Paul family attending swanky parties in D.C. This speech represents the fruit of millions of man hours put in by the grassroots of the Ron Paul campaigns of ’08 and ’12.

Ron and Rand Paul are the only father and son in American history to have held concurrent positions in the House and Senate.

The constitution is important. It’s a living, breathing document, and it’s supposed to still have applicability today…and my father was a strong believer that the founding fathers were very wise in what they set up and that that foundation was supposed to protect freedom and protect our liberty. One of the big things the founders had in mind were checks and balances. They divided up power…Madison really strongly believed that the power to declare war is in the legislature.