Well IF we have elections in 4 years and rand paul is the R candidate, I will certainly vote for him!
The way things are going I will vote for Rand on any ticket, which is what I expect he anticipates doing. Rand will not dance to the Establishment tune and they will prefer a Jeb bush, a clone of him or someone he has groomed, like Rubio, or eventually his own son.
Rand will need all four years to try and win Republicans over and enough of the Lbertarians that his father attracted, and build a third party among of the like minded. He made a good start tonight and most of all the tea party needs to coalesce around their pick early, before chopping up their forces between a half a dozen charmers.
I would take Rand over Newt! And I liked Newt a LOT. Rand I think is more dedicated, at his core, to the conservative/libertarian cause and so far has a record of trying to move the dang ball in our direction without deviating to go off and play nice with the Marxists.