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Editor-in-chief of "reason" matt welch, eric bates, and david corn. okay matt. so is this in some way shady or unethical to be fundraising off of a filibuster as rand paul did? >> hell, no. if this is the result of cynical fundraising, can we have more of that in washington right now? the vote on the patriot act extension of 215 and the other provisions we don't know what's going to happen with that. ten days ago, two weeks ago, we had a pretty good idea that somehow mitch mcconnell would orchestrate this and wave his magic wands and make it happen. rand paul got in the way of it happening. re...

Which may prevent them from being admitted to the first debate on august 6th. the remedy less time on the trail and more time on the box. "the wall street journal" reports strategists working for various campaigns said they expected long shot candidates to spend time in cable tv studios in new york. time that may instead have been used to meet voters at small events at iowa or new hampshire. eric bates, what do you think of this development or this piece of strategy more time in certain green rooms, not stipulating which ones. and less time handshaking, maybe in scooby vans across the country....

>> i'm sure carly fiorina loves that pillow, too. >> it's a bipartisan pillow. >> if only creativity is spent, like rand paul's ray-bans. was he selling like an at-home drone? >> like if that amount of creativity was given to the actual policy. >> we may be entering a new campaign finance reform. at least a percentage of their take through merchandise, maybe that would be better and it's certainly a more sort of capitalist society way to finance a democracy. >> and you get a pint glass. instead of a politician. i know you preordered that shirt, david corn. >> plenty of them. i'm going to get t...