Rand Paul In 2012? Senator Would Run For President 'If Nominated'

Freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Friday that it was premature for him to consider running for president, but that he would would be willing to take on the task "if nominated."

"Come back and ask me in a few months," Paul said in a wide-ranging interview with ABC News, adding that he was "very much interested in trying to shape the debate" by advocating deep, across-the-board spending cuts.

During the sitdown with ABC, Paul also claimed that his "true believer" commitment to fiscal conservatism led him to identify himself as a deficit hawk first and a Republican second.

"There are always problems in our nation's capital that are more important than party affiliation and I will always believe that," Paul said when asked which mantle meant more to him. "It's not necessarily Tea Party versus Republican Party, but I would say that if you ask me what's more important, tackling our nation's deficit, our nation's debt problems or being a Republican, I would say tackling the debt."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/04/rand-paul-president-2012-video_n_818816.html

Not a chance, libertarian fuck.

bring back the good old days.
Go Randy Ayn.

Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann... These are all politicians who were able to rally the crazies to come out and vote for them, and now they think they're representative of what the rest of America wants.

TlalocW

The Bachmann, Palin and Paul camps would end up annihalating each other eventually, but it'd be fun to watch the infighting. If they're sensible, the teabaggers will unite behind a single candidate, but I suspect the old saw that "the problem with far-Right politics is that everybody wants to be Fuhrer" will come into play. The rank-and-file teabaggers will do as they're told, as always, but you don't get into congress by being an authoritarian follower, as a rule.

He would be willing to run if nominated? You have to run in order to be nominated! Idjit!

When candidates were nominated at the convention level without much 'campaigning'.

days to be nominated by the GOP? Go ahead Rand, run, baby, run.

Every time he talks I get creeped out with his arrogant self-righteous tone.

I'd be surprised if there wasn't a recall effort underway already. In one month, this insane, egotistical, clown can come up w/something like this.

He has the charisma of overcooked spaghetti...and about as smart...:eyes:

He's entitled, dammit!

On behalf of sane Kentuckians, I apologize for Rand Paul.

Bake