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CHICAGO Let some candidates seek the middle. Rand Paul is comfortable in the muddle.

Some have said the junior senator from Kentucky is the most intriguing of the possible Republican presidential candidates for 2016.

But if he is the most intriguing, it is not because he is the most interesting. It is because its so hard to figure out just what he is saying.

Abortion? That ought to be easy for a conservative like Paul, right?

Not so fast there.

I think the debate is about when life begins, Paul said, stating the problem, but not the solution, something he has become very adept at doing. Is it OK for an 8-pound baby to be aborted one week before delivery? If the mother says shes anxious and wants to kill myself, you can have the abortion one day before its due?

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Paul was speaking at the University of Chicago in an event sponsored by its Institute of Politics. His questioner was the institutes founder and former Obama aide, David Axelrod. And Axelrod tried to pin Paul down several times. But it was like trying to pin down quicksand.

Axelrod asked Paul to state when he thought life begins.

My personal religious belief is that life begins at the very beginning, Paul said.

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Rand Paul makes a muddle