Rand Paul Wants You to Know He’s Different. Not Weird.

[DonViejo]

Olivia Nuzzi

The Kentucky senator will insist he is a new kind of candidate when he officially launches his presidential campaign Tuesday afternoon—but his shift toward the center may cost him.

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky—I am on the 17th floor of the Galt House Hotel, where Rand Paul will, just a few hours from now on Tuesday afternoon, formally declare that he is running for president.

It’s an odd choice of venue for Paul on the most important day of his political career: a 3.9-star, 25-story, 1,300-room monstrosity planted next to the Ohio River. Yelp reviewers say it’s “Very, very average and dated,” and “There was a USED DIRTY UNDERSHIRT on the bed when we walked into the room.” The rate for a room this evening is $137. Liberty, of course, is priceless.

Tuesday’s announcement was a long time in the making.

The junior senator from Kentucky has been unsubtly campaigning for the Republican nomination for the better part of the last year. He has toured the country giving speeches, raising money, and waging war on Hillary Clinton and potential GOP rivals. He has, put simply, done everything short of say, “I’m running for president.”

Paul is, he would very much like you to know, different from other politicians. He is decidedly not slick: He speaks quietly and slowly, and often sounds as though he is in the middle of trying to figure out what he thinks of something while answering a question. He is not a natural when it comes to retail politics. At events, like a foreign policy speech in New York in the fall, he can be seen sitting, with his legs outstretched and his eyes glued to the table below him, half-heartedly picking at a piece of pie.

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[lame54]

1. He announced he was running for senate in front of a country club...

the fools still voted for him

[Sunlei]

2. like father like son. another 50 years of a gov chair occupied by a do-nothing.