The excuse-makers on this board need to admit that Rand Paul is $#@!ing up big time. It's not the libertarians who won't bite the bullet and support a clearly disingenuous and squirrelly politician for President. It's not the conservatives who don't buy Rand as one of them and prefer the other 16 of their guys over him. It's Rand Paul and his campaign that have $#@!ed up. They miscalculated badly, and I don't see him recovering. Unless he takes the gloves off and stops being such a milquetoast appeaser, which doesn't seem like it's going to happen.