Rand Paul Hits “fake Conservatives,” “fake Republicans” At Small, Enthusiastic Seattle Rally

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul brought his 2016 presidential campaign to Seattle on Wednesday, with scathing references to “fake conservatives” and “fake Republicans,” calls for a non-interventionist U.S. foreign policy, and hits on Republican rival Donald Trump as a candidate who is “for higher taxes” and “against property rights.” The rare public event in Seattle for a GOP hopeful drew between 400 and 500 people to Town Hall Seattle.  It was a much smaller crowd than the thousand-plus throng who filled the SeaTac Red Lion ballroom for his father, then-Rep.