Paul and other Republican presidential contenders are in in town for a GOP summit in Nashua
The Kentucky senator also took a swipe at the GOP field: 'They all look alike, all sound alike, they all dress alike and nothing ever changes'
Speaking about Libya, he charged that 'they would have just done the same thing ten times over' as President Barack Obama
Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul smacked around Democratic rival Hillary Clinton at a campaign stop in New Hampshire this morning on the eve of the former Obama administration official's first visit to the Granite State as a proclaimed 2016 candidate.
'When Hillary Clinton travels there's going to need to be two planes, one for her and her entourage, one for her baggage,' Paul said during remarks at a New Hampshire GOP summit taking place in Nashua this weekend.
'I'm concerned that the plane with the baggage is really getting heavy and teetering' Paul said, predicting that she'd soon have new questions to answer about her family foundation's donations from foreign actors.
Clinton embarked on a cross-country trip in an armored van she nicknamed 'Scooby' last weekend for the first leg of her presidential bid. She ditched the van within days and flew back to the East Coast, travelling coach.
The wealthy Democrat was spotted at the Omaha, Nebraska, airport on the way back carting her own luggage.
Paul has been suggesting since he announced his bid for the Oval Office in early April that Clinton, a former first lady, U.S. senator, secretary of state and board member of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation would 'soon' face a day of reckoning over the charity's fundraising practices.
'I think there is big news coming on the Clinton Foundation,' Paul told Fox News during a New Hampshire swing earlier this month. 'I think there are things that went on at the Clinton Foundation that are going to shock people.'
'I think they're going to make people question whether she ought to run for president,' he said, declining to go into more detail.
He's issued the foreboding warning several times since, saying today, 'There's more coming, too.'
Paul said that if Clinton wants 'to be the candidate of women's rights,' she after to answer for the Clinton Foundation's acceptance of gifts from Saudi Arabia, which disrespects women, as well as her use of a private email server while working at the State Department.
Her knowledge of the security situation at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya before a September 11, 2012 terrorist attack is also a concern.
Of all the Obama administration's numerous 'scandals,' Paul said Benghazi is the one that 'bothers' him the most and hit Clinton for claiming it was below her 'pay grade' to read the diplomatic cables that were sent to the State Department in the days preceding the assault.
Putting daylight between himself and the rest of the presidential field, Paul implied the Benghazi attack would never have happened if he had been president because he never would have allowed a U.S. presence in Libya in the first place.
Of his probable GOP competitors, Paul charged that 'they would have just done the same thing, just ten times over' as President Barack Obama.
'They all look alike, all sound alike, they all dress alike and nothing ever changes,' he said of his colleagues, two of whom - Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida - have already joined the race.
Rubio and Cruz are also in town for the summit. Cruz will give remarks, answer questions and participate in an event for Young Republicans this afternoon. Rubio was the featured speaker at last night's dinner.
There, he took a swipe at Clinton, too, over her recent visit to Chipotle, where she came and went without being recognized and did not tip.
The Florida senator said he'd been talking to former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown backstage, and Brown told him that Clinton planned to raise 2.5 billion to support her 2016 run.
'That's a lot of Chipotle, my friends,' he quipped.
Paul this morning stopped in a Merrimack restaurant, The D.W. Dinner, where he shook hands with prospective voters and even posed with a baby, 17-month-old Michael Alukonis, whose grandfather, also Michael Alukonis, said a few words in favor of Paul's presidential bid during the planned campaign stop.
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