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(08-29-2020, 12:01 PM)jason Wrote: Rand Paul seems like an asshole, but yet and still that's not helping anything. It fires up the Trump base, and doesn't bring in any voters to the other side.... Middle America and those suburban "housewives" I keep hearing about cringe at that.

Well the asshole does do this quite often:

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/rand-paul-performs-free-eye-surgery-for-uninsured-patients

Quote:Sen. Rand Paul was a doctor before he was a politician and he spent part of his spring recess in the operating room, keeping in practice for what he says is the day he returns to medicine.


Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who is believed to also have his eye on the White House, performed pro-bono cataract surgeries on Tuesday for four patients who do not have insurance at an eye-surgery clinic in Paducah, Ky., during Congress' current spring recess.

It's "an amazing thing to see someone sit up and be able to see better," Paul, an opthalmologist, told CNN. The pro bono work helps the senator keep his surgical skills sharp so he can eventually return to the medical field, he said.

The procedure, Paul said, can normally range from $5,000 to $8,000.

Paul is a graduate of Duke University School of Medicine. Before entering Congress, he practiced as an ophthalmologist for 17 years in Bowling Green, Ky.

In 1995, the senator founded the Southern Kentucky Lions Eye Clinic, an organization that provides eye exams and surgery to needy families and individuals.