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When the votes for the next U.S. president are tallied 2 1/2 years from now, history may show that it was on Feb. 20, 2014, that Rand Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, took a crucial step toward the White House.
That was the day the 51-year-old libertarian called out Ted Nugent, a right-wing rock musician whose racist views have been tolerated by some in the populist Tea Party wing of the Republican Party. While campaigning for a politician in Texas, Mr. Nugent described President Barack Obama as a subhuman mongrel.
Many shrugged off the remark as Ted being Ted, but Mr. Paul was quick to respond: Ted Nugents derogatory description of President Obama is offensive and has no place in politics. He should apologize.
Mr. Paul faces enormous challenges should he run for president. A political outsider and first-term senator, he must prove his credentials to a Republican Party divided between libertarians, religious social conservatives, economic conservatives and defence hawks.
Because of its divisions the party often opts for the least offensive candidate, someone such as Bob Dole in 1996, or Mitt Romney, who was the last one standing in a knock-down nomination battle in 2012. Mr. Romney couldnt win the election against Mr. Obama, however, because a lot of those religious conservatives refused to vote for him.
These days the talk is that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or former Florida governor Jeb Bush could pose the greatest challenge to a Paul nomination.
Even if he got the nomination of this conservative, largely white party, Mr. Paul must win over independents and marginal democratic voters in a general election. This is why Mr. Paul is telling his party and its influential Tea Partiers to lose their prejudices.
We have to reach out to more people, more than just those of us here, he told the Tea Party in February, looking out at the mostly white crowd.
The reprimand was noticed. By decrying Nugent, Paul proves once again that he gets it, wrote Wesley Lowery in the Washington Posts political column The Fix.
And it shows. The youthful Mr. Paul, who resembles what comic-book teenager Archie would look like in his 50s, has consistently been scoring high in Republican polls.
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Rand Paul must prove he has right stuff if hes looking at a run for the White House
Rand Paul has a solution for his political and legal dilemma facing his prospective 2016 campaign: Elect new members to the Kentucky state House.
Paul, the Kentucky tea party freshman, said in an interview that he would actively campaign for Kentucky House candidates who will back a bill making it easier for him to run for president and the Senate simultaneously in 2016. If the Democratic-led state House blocks the bill this year, he warned, it would given him even more reason to put his political muscle behind GOP candidates in November.
We are about four seats short of controlling the state House, Paul said Thursday in the Capitol. It does provide some incentive for me to try to help people to win the state House.
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As he gears up for a likely presidential run in 2016, Paul has found himself in a legal dilemma back home since hell also be up for Senate reelection that same year. The law states that no candidates name shall appear on any voting machine or absentee ballot more than once except in certain special election situations.
Such legislation to permit Paul to run for both offices at the same time proposed by state GOP Sen. Damon Thayer cleared a state committee this week and is expected to be approved soon by the Republican-led Senate. Then, it could stall in the state House or face a prospective veto from Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear. A simple majority would be needed to override any veto.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been actively lobbying state senators to back the legislation, sources say.
In Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio finds himself in a similar dilemma but Kentuckys laws appear more restrictive.
If no legislation passes to modify the state law, Paul could be forced to decide whether to mount a presidential bid for his partys nomination or try to hang on to his Senate seat. Since the states filing deadlines arent until the final week of January 2016, he could also try to engage in some legal jujitsu. He could wait until the filing deadline to see if his potential presidential campaign catches fire before deciding which office to seek. Or Paul could just file as a Senate candidate in Kentucky while running for president nationally meaning his name would appear only on his home states ballot in the Senate race.
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