Specter goes down.

[dudalb]

Doesn't seem like Ron Paul hurt them all that much, why should Rand?

Ron could be written off as a loose cannon, but Rand cannot. A Senate Seat is a lot bigger deal then a House seat.

 

[quixotecoyote]

Ron could be written off as a loose cannon, but Rand cannot. A Senate Seat is a lot bigger deal then a House seat.

I don't think that distinction would carry too much weight with the average voter.

 

[KingMerv00]

I don't think that distinction would carry too much weight with the average voter.

I'm more cynical. I'm not sure the average citizen is aware of any distinction.

 

[headscratcher4]

Rand Paul gives the democrats a fighting chance for Ky. seat.

So long Arlen. He is 80 years old. He's been there 30 years. Two years ago he was endorsing Sarah Palin for VP. He's no democrat. I'm glad he switched parties, but he's no democrat. What is it Cromwell said? Something like: be gone! You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Or something like that.

 

[MattusMaximus]

I don't think that distinction would carry too much weight with the average voter.

Probably not in KY. However, if Paul gets into the Senate then I expect him to take up all manner of socially conservative goofiness - he'll be the next Dick Santorum

 

[MattusMaximus]

Rand Paul gives the democrats a fighting chance for Ky. seat.

You think so? I'd like to think so, but having grown up in KY I'm not going down that road unless there's some evidence to support the assertion. Got any?

 

[applecorped]

Did he wake up one day and decide that he was entitled to be a Senator until he stopped breathing?

DR

I'm sure it was more than one.

 

[hgc]

But I thought that switching parties would enable him to get re-elected.

Not enable, but rather, give him a chance. He had no chance as a Republican. He missed it anyway.

 

[Meadmaker]

I'm more cynical. I'm not sure the average citizen is aware of any distinction.

They aren't necessarily aware of the distinction, but Senators get a lot more news coverage.

 

[WildCat]

What imprisonment?

D'oh! Brain fart.

I was thinking of Trafficant.

 

[headscratcher4]

You think so? I'd like to think so, but having grown up in KY I'm not going down that road unless there's some evidence to support the assertion. Got any?

I believe it is a chance...Paul is certainly the front runner. And, indeed, Kentucky is one place where some one this radical could get elected, especially this year, it remains to be seen how well, when taken out of the context of a intra-GOP contest, his ideas fare. For example, one wonders about his support for ideas like privatizing or doing away with Social Security. Principled stands, possibly, but in a state as dependent on government transfer payments as so many in KY are, will it translate into real votes? I don't know, but it will be interesting to watch. Also, what is interesting, is that he will be at odds with many in the GOP if he is elected. It will be a true maverick...but KY is hurting in the recession. Sure people want change, but I suspect they also want help and wonder if Paul's message is compatible with that dichotomy.

In any event, he's off to a great start in extremeism, revisiting the Civil Rights Act and suggesting that businessess should be allowed to discriminate based on race, while condeming it as stupid for business. In the abstract, it is a principled position, in reality, the South of Jim Crow laws the vaunted market position didn't work for minorities...his principled position may look an awful lot like wistful wishing for the South of old.

 

[Thunder]

"Specter goes down."

does his wife know?

 

[applecorped]

 

[Skeptic]

"Specter goes down."

I doubt that.

I suppose you mean he pays other to do it?