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There has been some discussion of an animation of Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) rather sedate clapping at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress on Tuesday. By discussion, we mostly mean "online complaining." As usual.

Here's the image, via the National Review.

Paul is clapping a bit slower; he's looking around; he lacks the sort contented smile of Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), to his right, or Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), in front of him.

Paul thinks this critique is silly, to which we say: Fair enough.

The problem, of course, is one that has dogged Paul since he got to the Senate. Rand Paul is constantly measured against his father, former Texas congressman Ron Paul. And Ron Paul set a high bar for A Member of the Paul Family Expressing Enthusiasm.

How famous is that GIF? Edward Snowden made reference to it in his Reddit AMA.

That's what an excited Paul looks like, Rand. Step it up.

Philip Bump writes about politics for The Fix. He is based in New York City.

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The Fix: A thorough analysis of Rand Pauls support for Netanyahu, as measured in clapping

There has been some discussion of an animation of Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) rather sedate clapping at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before Congress on Tuesday. By discussion, we mostly mean "online complaining." As usual.

Here's the image, via the National Review.

Paul is clapping a bit slower; he's looking around; he lacks the sort contented smile of Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), to his right, or Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), in front of him.

Paul thinks this critique is silly, to which we say: Fair enough.

The problem, of course, is one that has dogged Paul since he got to the Senate. Rand Paul is constantly measured against his father, former Texas congressman Ron Paul. And Ron Paul set a high bar for A Member of the Paul Family Expressing Enthusiasm.

How famous is that GIF? Edward Snowden made reference to it in his Reddit AMA.

That's what an excited Paul looks like, Rand. Step it up.

Philip Bump writes about politics for The Fix. He is based in New York City.

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A thorough analysis of Rand Pauls support for Netanyahu, as measured in clapping

GOP Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) knocked media outlets Wednesday for mocking his lackluster clapping duringa high-profile address byIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, captured in a gif that made the rounds on social media Tuesday.

"You know, I think what's funny about it is that you have these gossipy websites who really demean themselves by putting stuff like that out," Paul told Brian Kilmeade on Fox and Friends. I gave the prime minister 50 standing ovations. I co-sponsored bringing him here."

Take a look at the gif at the center of Pauls indignation, if you havent already seen it:

Paul, who is seriously considering a run for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, is known for supporting a pared-down military approach that some critics say verges on isolationism. The gif was jokinglyused to sum up his stance on military intervention in a singleimage.

We have gossipy websites looking at the metric of how fast you clap. I think they demean themselves by putting that out, Paul added.

The likely presidential candidate also addressed his recent straw poll win at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, in which he took more than 26 percent of the vote to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walkers 21 percent.

"I think only one other person, Ronald Reagan, has won it three times. CPAC is a great event because it's full of a lot of young people. The only way you can win elections is to have that enthusiasm. We were really excited to get the victory, he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a joint meeting of Congress that removing economic sanctions on Iran would have terrible outcomes. Here are highlights from his speech. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)

Jose A. DelReal covers national politics for The Washington Post.

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With Republican rivals like Scott Walker and Jeb Bush off to a strong start in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, Rand Paul will seek his own breakout moment at an annual gathering where hopefuls go to burnish their conservative credentials.

Of all the potential candidates speaking at the meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Kentucky senator should feel most at home. He won the event's presidential straw poll the last two years, buoyed by support from young libertarian-leaning conservatives who plan to turn out in force again this year.

The 52-year-old Paul, famous for his non-interventionist approach to world affairs, could find himself at odds with a growing hawkishness among other Republican hopefuls mustering support with their calls for more aggressive action against Russia and Islamic State militants.

"He's got a challenge to overcome," said Al Cardenas, former chairman of the American Conservative Union which organizes the event known by its acronym, CPAC.

Due to speak on Friday, Paul can nonetheless count on a generational divide of sorts between the party's traditional foreign-policy hawks and younger activists who have come of age during 13 years of nonstop U.S. engagement in wars.

"We've grown up in war in Afghanistan and Iraq and we all have friends who have gone overseas and either have not come back or have come back mentally scarred. There's a toll that's been taken on young people in this war," said Jeff Frazee, executive director of Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian group that has had a heavy presence at recent CPAC gatherings.

The influence of libertarians can be seen this year on panels that will tackle criminal-justice reform and marijuana legalization, as well as more traditional topics such as abortion and President Barack Obama's signature healthcare act.

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With 20 months to go before the election, Walker, 47, and Bush, 62, will each have a moment in the CPAC spotlight.

Walker, the Wisconsin governor, is riding a surge of conservative support from a warmly received speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit last month but came under fire this week when he demurred on whether he believed Obama was a Christian.

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