By Elizabeth Landers
With a wide open Republican presidential primary in South Carolina, a common stump phrase Palmetto State voters hear is a push to take better care of our veterans.
That was Sen. Rand Paul’s message this week at a Concerned Veterans for America town hall at the historic Patriot’s Point site near Charleston.
“If I’m president, my number one priority in spending is taking care of defending our country and taking care of the people who defend our country,” he said to a group who showed up for political talk and pulled pork sandwiches.
GOP candidates scrambling to make themselves known in a 17-person field are targeting military and security issues 
in an early primary state where 12 percent of the overall population, or about 391,660 people, are veterans. South Carolina is also home to major military bases: Parris Island, Shaw Air Force Base, Fort Jackson, Joint Base Charleston and Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
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