Discussion: Kentucky GOP Endorses Rand's Plan To Run For Senate, President In 2016

system1 · March 8, 2015, 12:21pm

Discussion for article #234065

mschumm · March 8, 2015, 12:59pm

Time to field a strong KY Senate candidate and snap up his seat while he’s floundering.

boscobrown · March 8, 2015, 1:05pm

overreach_this · March 8, 2015, 1:12pm

I would say he should be allowed to be Senator and President for Life at the same time.

I also question the utility of bothering with an election. Aqua Buddha no more! This man is national hero!

overreach_this · March 8, 2015, 1:27pm

Don’t know how serious it is, but according to Wikipedia this lady is running:

ctvoter · March 8, 2015, 1:46pm

It’s not clear to me how this changes anything, other than he now has his party’s permission to do this. There’s still a law prohibiting being on a ballot twice. The fact that your party says its ok does not, in fact, make it ok.

And it does not solve his general election problem. If Paul were to win the Republican nomination for president, he would likely need a court order to appear on the ballot twice in November.
Good to see this in this piece. Otherwise, the article leaves the impression that everything has been solved.

ralph_vonholst · March 8, 2015, 1:52pm

Paul has characterized himself as a “different kind of Republican,”

Really? Magical thinking, check; union busting, check; tax-cuts for rich people, check; prodigious liar, check; supply-sider, check; science denier, check; racist, check, self-important asshole with a sense of entitlement, check.

Well, I’m afraid I’m at a loss.

mantan · March 8, 2015, 2:04pm

So the carpetbagger gets to blow up the Commonwealth (Uncommonpoverty) say some teabaggers elected with Texas billionaire thousands (it’s KY after all) while the tiny, tiny Jr. Senator struts and claims he’s doing everyone a favor.
Way to reinforce the dumb hillbilly cliché men, and I do mean men, white men, white Protestant men.

josephebacon · March 8, 2015, 2:38pm

Typical Republican stacking the deck.

fiftygigs · March 8, 2015, 2:38pm

“…Rand Paul…”

Perfectly legal now that he’s gotten his buds to change the rules to benefit his personal interests.

Basic conservatism. Welfare for the elite works very well.

jinmichigan · March 8, 2015, 2:43pm

He’s got about as much chance as his crazy father.

jasonsrobot · March 8, 2015, 2:43pm

Paul has gone to great lengths to reach out to minority voters, including sponsoring bills that would eliminate sentencing disparities in what he has called a racially biased criminal justice system and endorsing plans to restore the voting rights of some nonviolent convicted felons.

What else has he done? Because, sure those 2 things are good but are they ‘great lengths’…? Says who? Is that the R.Paul campaign claim because, yeah, by GOP standards anything-other-than-nothing is pretty big. But lets not use the GOP scale here - let’s use reality.
Let’s not just gloss over or repeat those claims in articles un-questioned.

bluinmaine · March 8, 2015, 2:48pm

Boy, he really is impressed with himself.
When his candy making machine runs out of sugar, then what?
Go back to licking the turtle???

sonsofares · March 8, 2015, 3:04pm

Umm hmm, just there like there might have been a low chance that people would actually let Republicans take over the Congress because they don’t want crazies running that body.

sdcga161 · March 8, 2015, 3:05pm

The most disturbing thing in this article is the mention that Grimes might run again. PLEASE. NO. I lost all respect for her when she assumed we were all so gullible as to fall for her “I’m protecting the secret ballot”-non-answer of whether she voted for Obama.

Oh, and don’t believe a word of what Rubio has said he will or won’t do. He’ll conveniently find a reason to go back on his word and run for Senate and the presidency. Unless he figures he’ll be better suited to capture the governorship in 2018. Who know. But I know that his claim that he won’t run for both offices is just a for-the-moment position. Most Senators won’t leave until they’re barely able to stand or talk on their own, and even then a lot stick around.

jalus · March 8, 2015, 3:35pm

Mitch McConnell endorses Rand Paul Plan to run for Senate, President

Evidently Paul and McConnell now believe what is best for U.S. Senators is to change state laws to protect their jobs,
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Ironic given their constant screams about "States Rights."

jimtoday · March 8, 2015, 3:39pm

“If Paul were to win the Republican nomination for president, he would likely need a court order to appear on the ballot twice in November.”

Well, I wouldn’t get too worried about that happening. The guy’s a stiff, he ain’t going anywhere.

barblzz · March 8, 2015, 3:42pm

Kentucky state motto “We support corruption”

jimtoday · March 8, 2015, 3:43pm

Well, if counting raw votes is any indication, far more people voted for Democratic candidates, but due to the magic of GOP’s 2010 redistricting, we end up with a disproportionate number of GOP House members.

I will investigate the Senate totals.

daveyjones64 · March 8, 2015, 4:16pm

The general election is and always has been the bigger issue for him on this matter. The GOP cannot “skip” Kentucky’s electoral votes…they need every state Romney won, plus Ohio and Florida.

Nor is this something a Federal judge can fix for him…its entirely a state matter.

Not that I see him getting that far. He will bow out of the republican primary long before the convention. With marijuana slowly but surely becoming legalized anyway, and the MSM increasing the volume of their war drums…Paul’s outside the GOP mainstream appeal is too far outside. Toss in his thin skin and the entirely predictable responses to any and every attack (first act tough, then fold up like a cheap suit and run away, then whine about being a victim), and he is probably the easiest candidate to be taken down on the GOP side.