BOOM!!- Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann Are UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION For Several Federal CRIMES

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72. I'd venture to say no "probably" about it.

If there's anything to read from little rand paul, it's an ego the size of the planet Jupiter. He OBVIOUSLY thinks he's not only presidential material but the savior of the entire republi-CON party. How many times has he talked about how HE is the way, the truth, and the light toward wooing back some of the very demographic groups that view the GOP as having about the same desirability as the Ebola virus?

And something else is at play here, too, with rand paul. We've seen the template already. Twice. george w bush and john mccain. Two Oedipus Complexes on legs. Two others chafing under the legacy of VERY accomplished fathers and also grandfathers. We know about the bushes. mccain's father and grandfather were both admirals. Each of these dudes has exhibited a glaring need to top the Alpha males in their families and assert their own dominance and supremacy. Each of these dudes has exhibited behavior that shows them attempting to best their fathers' legacies and accomplishments and "places in history." Hey, if your dad and grandpa were admirals, how do you top that? Well, go for the White House! Hey, if your grandpa was a senator and your dad got turned out of the White House after only one term, why not prove how a bush CAN, TOO, get a second term! Hey who's yer daddy NOW???? Show 'em how it's done, son!

And with little rand paul - his dad is the Harold Stassen of latter-day politics. A SERIES of runs for the White House, always a bridesmaid but never the bride, always with a little cult following off on the sidelines but never enough to get across the finish line. Turning into something of a national joke after awhile: "Oh, right. HIM again. Still working at it, pal?" How Alpha Male would it be within the paul family when sonny-boy goes all the way, like dad just somehow never could? If the son bests his father on such a huge national platform - either somehow "avenging" his father's broken dreams or showing daddy how it's done? Hey, family, WHO'S YER DADDY NOW????

I think we can't dismiss this ingredient in the rand paul recipe. I think we ignore it at our peril. It's part of him. It's in his blood, and in his own life history, growing up watching his dad's career. He's GONNA run. He's GONNA go for it. His ego won't let him NOT do it. Because he, too, has something to prove, both to his own insular family and to his political party and to the entire nation. He's just another little kid in the bathroom with Daddy, yearning to prove his whiskers are longer and thicker and his dick is bigger.