Alexandria , Virginia ( CNN ) -- Sen. Rand Paul said this week that he would vote in favor of going to war with ISIS , but his father , former Rep. Ron Paul , made it clear Friday night that he sharply opposes further U.S. involvement in the Mideast region . Speaking at a libertarian-leaning conference , Ron Paul slammed the `` bipartisan support '' among congressional lawmakers for `` rubber-stamping what President Obama wants '' in the fight against the militant group . More broadly , he suggested that Senate Republicans are n't that different from their Democratic counterparts . Some people think `` if the Republicans take over the Senate this year , that will hamstring the president and everything 's going to be OK , '' he said at the Liberty Political Action Conference in Alexandra , Virginia . `` That 's a joke . '' `` It would n't be OK because they all believe in the same thing , they believe in the federal reserve and they believe in the war . They believe in the spending and the intervention overseas , '' he said . Obama 's proposed plan includes expanded air strikes against ISIS and arming and training Syrian rebels who are also fighting off the threat . Congress has not voted specifically to authorize air strikes against ISIS , but Rand Paul has said he would vote in favor of doing so . The Kentucky Republican has long been more moderate than his father , a former Texas congressman who ran for president three times and has strong support among the libertarian base . Still , Rand Paul has largely opposed foreign interventions in the past , and his decision to support air strikes has been viewed as more hawkish than his previous stances . The Senate on Thursday passed legislation that would also approve the arming and training of Syrian rebels . But Rand Paul was one of 12 Republicans who voted against the legislation , saying he feared the weapons would end up in the wrong hands . He launched into a lengthy Senate floor speech Thursday against the plan , blasting `` barnacled enablers '' for pushing a policy that he believes would be ineffective . Ron Paul never mentioned his son , who spoke the previous night on the same stage , during his remarks about foreign policy . The former congressman , however , said that the family got together the previous night to have `` strategy meeting . '' `` I 'm going to reveal some secrets to you , '' Ron Paul told the audience , cheekily hinting that he was going to talk about Rand Paul 's likely presidential bid in 2016 . But the former congressman jokingly went on to list a number of mundane family matters , such as when 's the next golf game and details about a family wedding . `` We did have some very , very serious discussions , '' he went on to say . `` And of course some very important things too about what the family 's doing and that is the truth . The issues are very , very important to all of us , and yet the family is pretty important to us too . ''
Ron Paul has ` ` bipartisan vote '' in support for war against ISIL . His son , Rand Paul , has said he would vote for drone strikes . However , Rand Paul did not vote this time for another version of the plan to fight ISIS .