Whatever else he accomplishes in his run for President, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) can walk away knowing he spurred actual debate on the Fox News Channel.

The gallery of pundits on “The Five” ended up snapping at each other on Tuesday while discussing the expiration of key provisions of the Patriot Act, for which Paul has been credited and blamed.

“The worst thing about Rand Paul, what makes him despicable, is saying that Republicans want a terrorist attack so they can blame him,” Greg Gutfeld said of Paul’s remarks during the Senate debate on Sunday.

“He walked that back,” Eric Bolling cut in.

“So what?” Gutfeld shot back, before calling Paul “sad and disgusting.”

“What’s wrong with getting a warrant?” Geraldo Rivera said to Gutfeld, referencing the expiration of the NSA’s bulk metadata collection program. “You believe in the Second Amendment, why not the Fourth Amendment?”

Gutfled repeated that he was comfortable with the NSA collecting and using his and other Americans’ records. (Gutfeld has called himself a libertarian both on his old show “Red Eye” and in a 2009 interview with Reason.)

For her part, Kimberly Guilfoyle said that ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani had personally assured her that the metadata collection has foiled terrorist plots.

Bolling eventually jumped in with a small-government argument against the practice, adding that he wouldn’t want Hillary Clinton to oversee this kind of program if she were commander-in-chief.

Guilfoyle was unmoved: “You can’t compromise national security because you’re scared of Hillary Clinton.”

Watch the clip over at Mediaite.