Rand Paul & earmarks

Rand Paul, it seems, knows how to be a politician. He will say one thing to get elected, and do another once he's actually won. Paul, who ran as a Tea Party Favorite, stayed hard on the Tea Party line as being anti-earmark. During the campaign, it was all "no, no, no" to earmarks. No earmarks in legislation, ever. Ever.

But in an article in the Wall Street Journal, Paul was saying this:

In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad "symbol" of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky's share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it's doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. "I will advocate for Kentucky's interests," he says.

Ideals are great for campaigns, not so much for reality, evidently.