If he is forced to choose, should Rand keep his Senate Seat or stay in the Presidential Race?

[DevilsAdvocate]

What would be best for the Liberty movement?

 

[CPUd]

He'll only be forced to choose if he wins both elections. In that case, he will definitely choose POTUS.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

Rand will be forced to choose if KY doesn't grant him the ability to run in both elections, and he's doing well in the presidential primaries. Come early 2016, he'll have to decide to either drop out of the race and run for Senate, or go for it all and lose his current seat.

 

[CPUd]

He could still run for both, he would just have to be creative with the Electors.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

One the one hand, losing that Senate seat is a huge blow. It means the Liberty movement will lose it's most outspoken, successful representative in the Federal government. Would the Liberty movement fall apart without someone to hold it together?

On the other hand, we've been having some tremors in the stock market. Should the economic situation worsen, Rand's odds might improve as an outspoken voice warning about the unsustainability of our government's economic and monetary policy. He might get a significant bump in his poll numbers.

 

[cindy25]

there is no other Liberty candidate ready to run for president, but Thomas Massie could move up to the senate. and someone on Massie's staff could run for that house seat.

the stock market is imploding, Korea is ready to blow up. Rand has a chance.

and if he has to, he could run for senate and then run for pres in 49 states. Kennedy did that (Alabama), and Lincoln was not on the ballot in many states.

 

[DisneyFan]

Senate seat.

 

[Mad Raven]

Go for the gold. You pays your money and you takes your chances. It's worth a shot. You gotta try. I don't think Rand is the type to sit back and settle for the sure thing. He's done it. Time to move on and see what happens.

 

[cindy25]

Massie might actually have a better chance of holding the senate seat. Rand will continue to face charges he is interested in higher office. they have the same voting record. and the Liberty movement is not about one family.

 

[nikcers]

He's the only person running who doesn't make it seem like war with Iran is inevitable. Obama even talked about it, but to me it seemed like they were trying to hold off to save his legacy.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Armageddon is imminent anyway, may as well go for broke.

 

[Jackie Moon]

He'll only be forced to choose if he wins both elections. In that case, he will definitely choose POTUS.

Rand will be forced to choose if KY doesn't grant him the ability to run in both elections, and he's doing well in the presidential primaries. Come early 2016, he'll have to decide to either drop out of the race and run for Senate, or go for it all and lose his current seat.

Yeah, he'll only really have to make a choice if he wins the presidential primaries.

It will be nice if he's able be on the primary ballot for both, but he most likely won't need Kentucky's delegates in the presidential primary. In 2012 Kentucky had 45 delegates... to win you needed 1,144 out of the 2,286 total. And with the primary coming late those 45 delegates won't matter and the overall winner should be apparent by then.

So during the primaries if he is only on the ballot for Senate that's fine. He can win overall without winning Kentucky.

If he ends up dropping out of the presidential primary race he'll already be on the ballot for Senate. If he goes on to win the GOP nomination for president, then he'd have to choose which one he wanted to run for.

At that point though it's a pretty easy choice. It would suck to give up the Senate seat and then lose in the general... but that's a risk worth taking.

 

[69360]

He will stay in the senate I'm sure. Potus is and has been a long shot.

 

[65fastback2+2]

he'll go for potus.

in the senate, all he can do it make bills that no one will vote for. as president, he can effect actual change.

 

[liberty_nc]

President, we have others in the Senate to help us forward the liberty movement. If Rand wins the nomination, he will most likely win the election. If a republican wins 2016, I have heard he may go back to KY and run for governor in 2019. If a democrat wins in 2016, Rand may just wait 4 years and try to unseat them.

 

[01000110]

President.

 

[liveandletlive]

This is a no brainer, come on now.

 

[Lightweis]

No question, senate seat.

 

[acptulsa]

Is there anyone here who seriously thinks this decision must be made before, say, the Nevada caucus? Which is, like, six months away?

Is there anyone here who seriously doesn't remember that at this point in 2007, the November 2008 ballot was 'obviously' going to be Hillary Clinton v. Rudy Giuliani?

 

[jkob]

Rand isn't going to win the presidency so what we're asking is should Rand keep his senate seat or should he go back to practising medicine? The strongest supporters of Rand all tell us all the good he has done as a senator and now they'd want to throw that all away? Rand isn't that old, he can run again so think long term. Whenever it comes down to that decision, I have no idea when, then it has to be the senate seat.