Obamacare was enacted against the unspoken rules of the US political game which require bipartisan support for major legislation. Therefore, a partisan repeal is not only reasonable but in order. So that Republicans do not make the same mistake as the Democrats did, either simultaneously or subsequently, a bipartisan bill can be negotiated. If this general analysis is correct, then Rand Paul sees more clearly than most or all the rest of the Republican party and is in fact leading, not going to war.