Now that he’s been elected, Rand Paul has no need to run away from the media any more, so he showed up today on “Face The Nation” — and out came the crazy: Rand Paul says Obama set the wrong tone on BP.

President Barack Obama’s tone on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sent the wrong message to the business community, newly elected Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Sunday.

Paul, a favorite of the tea party movement, said that even though BP may have been culpable, the president’s tone to the company “sends the wrong signal that government is the enemy of business.”

This is why Paul hid from the press during his election; he’s an apologist for big corporations, and he knew it wouldn’t play well with the public. Before his handlers got him to clam up, though, Paul said President Obama’s handling of the BP spill was “un-American,” that Obama was “putting his boot heel on the throat of BP,” and that BP wasn’t to blame because “accidents happen.”