Because Libertarians Believe …
Libertarians believe that no government is the best government, the Easter Bunny, that fake hair looks really real, that traffic signals are an unwarranted police invasion of your rights, and that you can have your cake and eat it too.
Rand Paul wants it all, all, all. Apparently he believes that he can run for every position on the ballot and chose between the ones he wins.
Kentucky law says he can’t run for both senate and President. He’s going to fight the constitutionality of that because what the taxpayers of Kentucky really, really need is (1) a man who cannot make up his mind, and (2) the expense of a special election.
“The basis of the lawsuit would be that the U.S. Constitution lists the qualifications for people to run for either U.S. House or Senate and they are either citizens of the United States, resident of the state, and for Senate 30 years of age,” University of Kentucky College of Law professor Josh Douglas told TPM. “So the argument here is that saying you can’t be a candidate for more than one federal office is an additional qualification so it violates the qualification clause of the U.S. Constitution.”
I have to tell y’all that I think a Rand Paul presidential run would be a blast. You know how he made up his own qualifying board to be able to practice medicine in Kentucky? Hell, if he doesn’t win the presidency, he could just make up his own country.