Rand Paul takes page from Charlie Sheen on 'winning'

Catalina Camia | USA TODAY

Is the Republican Party like Charlie Sheen? Sen. Rand Paul says the GOP is "winning" just like the actor said he was in the heyday of his very public meltdown a couple of years ago.

Paul, the Kentucky senator and potential 2016 presidential candidate, told the Liberty Political Action Conference in Virginia on Thursday that he believes his party is "winning" as President Obama is being criticized on his handling of chemical weapons in Syria.

"Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy ... And he was going around, jumping around saying, 'Winning, winning, we're winning," said Paul, according to MSNBC's report on the event. "Well, I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I'm not on any drugs."

More from Paul on why he thinks outrage over government surveillance programs and Obama criticism helps the GOP: "I think we are winning in the sense that the public is with us, it's just not us, the remnants or the hard core, but I think the public is, in general, with us on these issues. ...I think also that from a partisan point of view as a Republican, these are ways we grow the Republican Party."

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