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Unlike Paul, (Jack) Kemp dressed in a jacket and tie (with his tell-tale collar bar), not baggy jeans. He was a U.S. congressman and wasn’t going to insult students by pretending to be an undergrad who’d just rolled out of bed.

Pointing this out is laughable.

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Unlike Paul, he did not tell the crowd how his party colleagues were old and unlikable.

He should have mentioned how angry and dried up Rubin is.

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Unlike Paul, Kemp talked mainly about the promise of free market conservatism, the dignity of work and the blessings of private property ownership. He went to the core of conservatism, defended it and explained why students and the whole society should embrace it.

Rubin's version of "free market conservatism" = crony capitalism. See Chris Christie and Tesla for a recent example. IMO Paul's views on free markets are going to be tough for big business to swallow. Big business loves to partner with government to block competition. Paul want to promote free market capitalism, not free market conservatism.

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Unlike Paul, Kemp did not revel in students’ anti-government, paranoid visions. . .

Well, Rubin is right here. Standing up for the 4th amendment is anti-government...anti-federal-government.

I thought conservatives were small government types. I guess I made a mistake confusing small government with anti-government. Rubin must be in favor of a small government that records its citizens phone records and internet traffic without a warrant. But as long as it's a small government it's okay.

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In the ’70s and ’80s, Ronald Reagan and Kemp went about the hard work of convincing habitual Democrat voters that conservatism might be in their interests. In contrast, Paul seems to be affirming bad impulses on the hard left and suggesting that conservatism is all about aversion to national security.

Except for the fact that the neocons hijacked Reagan's version of national security and foreign policy. Reagan was much less interventionist and more prudent in his foreign policies initiatives than Jennifer Rubin and her ilk. In fact, George Bush Sr. was more prudent than the current crop of neocons that was born out of GWB 43 administration.