BREAKING: Jack Hunter Leaves Rand Paul Staff

Developing....

UPDATE 1

Via The Daily Caller:

Jack Hunter, the aide to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul who has been under fire for comments critical of Abraham Lincoln and sympathetic to the Confederacy, has left the senator’s office to resume his career as a political pundit.

Hunter told The Daily Caller News Foundation that he wanted to avoid being a distraction for Paul and to clear his own name, which he argues is now unfairly associated with racism.

UPDATE 2

Less than two weeks after neocons launched a blistering attack on Rand Paul social media aide Jack Hunter, Hunter is gone from Rand's staff and Rand is left wounded.

The neocons, if they choose, may not let up. They can harp on the fact that Hunter was not pushed from the Rand camp quick enough after the "exposure" of his southern sympathies. They can also charge Rand with being weak for allowing Hunter to simply leave on his own rather than Rand showing "leadership" and throwing Hunter out earlier.

The neocons are a demanding bunch. Rand may not be ruthless, yet, in his desire to be president, but if he has it in him to be ruthless, the neocons will draw it out.

No one in America gets to be president without displaying the ruthlessness that the behind the scenes operators demand.

Friedrich Hayek wasn't kidding when he wrote a chapter  in The Road to Serfdom titled Why the Worst Get on Top.

It will be interesting to see what the neocons and elitist mainstream media demand of Rand next and whether Rand drags his feet, like with Hunter, for nearly two weeks, before he does what the neocons and MSM demand of him.