Rand Paul was accused by McCain of working for Putin after McCain did not get the vote he wanted about NATO. And to add insult to injury, instead of fighting with McCain and pals like it was fifth grade, Rand Paul acted like an adult: he voted and left. In the world of McCain and Shaheen and Cardin, Rand Paul not voting the way McCain wants him to = working for the Russians? Actually, no Mr. McCain and your Democrat pals. I live in MI-3 and it is called voting your conscience. And Rand Paul’s staff went and had fun on twitter discussed here and here. Reason had a nice breakdown (and good snark).

What do you call a U.S. senator who opposes the expansion of NATO to include the troubled former Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, a country that survived a (reportedly Russia-backed) coup attempt as recently as last fall? If you’re Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), and that colleague is intervention-skeptic Rand Paul, you call him, remarkably, a pawn of Vladimir Putin.