NICK GILLESPIE: Rand Paul Plays The Maverick at CPAC and the Evangelical in Cedar Rapids. “In Paul’s defense, there is nothing rhetorically inconsistent between the senator’s CPAC and Cedar Rapids comments. Paul has long preferred to call himself a constitutional conservative rather than a libertarian and, as my Reason colleague Mike Riggs has pointed out, he has never actually embraced pot legalization, even at the state level.”