Posted on 08/05/2009 11:40:46 AM PDT by Rodebrecht
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- A Kentucky ophthalmologist who has been eyeing a U.S. Senate campaign says he will run for the seat now held by Jim Bunning.
Republican Rand Paul of Bowling Green ended months of speculation Wednesday when he told The Associated Press in an interview that he is entering the race. Paul told the AP of his decision in advance of a series of planned media events, including an appearance on national television Wednesday evening.
Paul had been considering running even before the 77-year-old Bunning announced last week that he intends to retire when his second term ends next year.
Paul is the son of former presidential candidate Ron Paul, a Texas lawmaker who ran in last year's Republican primaries.
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Named after Ayn Rand so would be a good voice in the Senate.
Used to work with this guy in Bowling Green - can’t say all that much about him good or bad - seemed like kind of white bread kind of guy to me. Didn’t really know him that well, but still.
“A Kentucky ophthalmologist who has been eyeing...”
Just can’t resist an opening sentence like that.
Is he perhaps the natural born son of Ayn Rand and Ron Paul?
Ron Paul’s son? Does that mean he shares Paul’s foreign-policy views?
I think Paul Sr is a bit odd on occasion. Think it's Trey Grayson for me.
You mean Trey Grayson, the former Democrat who voted for Clinton in ‘92 and only went GOP to get elected?
If Trey Grayson follows in Ronaldus Maximus's footsteps, Kentucky shall have done the right thing.
Illinois's boy zillionaire State Treasurer (and now Demonrat Senate candidate) Alexi Giannoulis is said to have been a volunteer for Reagan in his youth. That was before he discovered just how much money a guy can rake in by being faithful to the Chicago Demonrat machine. I don't plan on voting for him although one is concerned about the phony major party alternative.
Someone who bears the name Rand (no less) Paul has heavier burdens to overcome. First, one does not doubt that his dad, the Galveston moonbat, is probably an admirer of Ayn Rand, serial adulterer and militant atheist (there is room for only one god and la Rand imagined herself in the role). Second, he is his father's son. While genetic inheritance does not make one a mouthpiece for Al Qaeda, a surrendermonkey extraordinaire, a lover of earmarks, or a two-faced poseur on a wide variety of issues that matter to conservatives, all of which well describe his daddy, little Rand has a lot to do to prove himself not his father's son.
Kentucky can see to it that the Galveston moonbat's spawn continue to practice opthalmology.
Jim Bunning is indeed an honorable man and a dependable conservative (and a truly great pitcher as I am regrettably old enough to remember). He is also 79 years of age and has not been attentive to the ongoing and concededly distasteful necessity of fund-raising. He was going to be beaten and was almost beaten for the same reason last time.
The same old GOP establishment BS ain't much but it beats the hell out of the isolationist and effectively anti-American fantasies of Paul the Elder. If Rand Paul is just another conspiracy theorizing, self-annointed "constitutional" expert, disarmament oriented anti-war type, then he is going to hear what his father heard last year: Thanks, but no thanks!
Had no idea. Moved here in '99 and the only thing I know about him is he used to work for Gov. Fletcher.
Thanks for the info.
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