Republican Kentucky Senator Rand Paul spoke to a student forum at the left leaning UC Berkeley this week and was met with cheers. If you needed further proof that liberty is bipartisan, here you go.

Carla Marinucci of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Republican Rand Paul fires up a Berkeley crowd

Cheered by a youthful audience in one of the country’s most liberal enclaves, Sen. Rand Paul – one of the Republican Party’s leading contenders for the White House in 2016 – delivered a scathing rebuke to the U.S. intelligence community Wednesday, calling it “drunk with power.”

“I don’t know about you, but I’m worried,” the Kentucky senator told 400 people who filled a hall at UC Berkeley’s International House. “If the CIA is spying on Congress, who exactly can or will stop them?”

Paul’s comments come one week after Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., took to the Senate floor to accuse the CIA of illegal computer searches intended to hinder her Intelligence Committee’s probe of alleged U.S. torture of terrorism suspects.

Paul said Feinstein’s allegations had shaken Washington. “I look into the eyes of senators and I think I see real fear,” he said. “I think I perceive fear of an intelligence community drunk with power, unrepentant and uninclined to relinquish power.”…

Paul noted that he was taking his campaign to places that don’t traditionally vote Republican. “Like Berkeley,” he said to cheers.

“Part of it might be the Republican Party (must) … evolve, adapt or die,” he said.

“Remember when Domino’s finally admitted they had bad crust?” he said to laughs. “We need a different type of party.”

Paul has jumped into the lead among prospective Republican presidential candidates for 2016, according to a CNN/CRC International poll released this week…

Robert Reich, the labor secretary during the Clinton administration who watched Paul’s speech Wednesday, said there are few candidates “who can get a standing ovation at (the Conservative Political Action Conference) and at Berkeley.”