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Tom Loftus, The (Louisville) Courier-Journal 4:06 p.m. EDT July 22, 2015

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a campaign event on June 29, 2015, in Mesquite, Nev.(Photo: John Locher, AP)

LOUISVILLE Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul resorted to political pyrotechnics this week to attract attention to his White House bid.

"I'm trying to kill the tax code," Paul says, as a video released by his campaign and launched on Fox News shows him destroying the 70,000-page federal tax code with a chain saw and feeding it into a wood chipper.

The display was meant to highlight his plan to simplify and reduce the income tax, which was released last month but soon overshadowed in a crowded primary field currently dominated by the bombastic appeals to anti-government Republicans of real estate billionaire Donald Trump.

The eye-catching video came at a time when some experts suggest that, though still at an early stage, Paul's campaign has drifted, with the man labeled by Time last October as "The Most Interesting Man in American Politics" growing, well, a bit dull.

"Rand Paul is not as prominent as I expected him to be," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.

"When he first got in, and even before that, he was very prominent," Sabato said. "Now, much less so. It's still very early, but he needs to get some gas in the tank."

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