Rand Paul prevents war with Russia

But what these political elites do not necessarily have is the support of the American people. When McCain said, “I know I speak for every American when I say to [Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili], ‘Today, we are all Georgians,’” he was not speaking for the American people. It’s hard to imagine many Americans, then or now, wanting to send their sons and daughters off to fight a questionable war in Eurasia.

Still, whether the American people stand with Sen. Rand Paul — the only Capitol Hill leader who tried to prevent a war with Russia last week — or with McCain, Obama, Bush and Rubio, this is an issue still up for debate.

And it deserves to be debated. The Georgians will have to wait.

Jack Hunter writes at the “Paulitical Ticker,” where he is the official Ron Paul 2012 campaign blogger. He helped Rand Paul write “The Tea Party Goes to Washington.