so that's partly what we're going to look at. >> taking what you just said there, would rand paul be dangerous as president? >> i said i didn't want to get into endorsing or criticizing any candidate. i did express the view that i think isolationism is crazy. >> that was former vice president cheney at a politico lunch today after he had no doubt read rand paul's piece in politico which included this line. "when megan kelly of fox news tells dick cheney that history has proven that you got it wrong on iraq, it is a very important lesson. we must remember that history so we don't repeat it." rand paul knows what he's doing here. he is willfully taking on his own party. calling them the let's intervene and consider the consequences later crowd. rand paul is a very good student of the foreign policy mistakes of his party, and rand paul and his writers have become increasingly more sophisticated