No, it wasn’t. I submit you don’t like the response. Try reading it again. I’m not interested in needlessly pissing away a Republican-held seat for an unqualified, unknown candidate for whom whose views are highly questionable and who benefits exclusively from his name and his whackaloon father’s fundraising network. Unless you’d prefer the Dems to take this seat ? Because whether you like it or not, they will be putting up a first-tier nominee who has already won statewide, and that will probably be Jack Conway. Seeing my local tv stations (although in Nashville, covers the Southern KY media market) air non-stop ads linking Rand entirely to his kook father as an unqualified extremist throughout the fall campaign in ‘10 makes me physically ill. Let him run for lesser office first and prove himself independent of his father’s nutty paleo/libertarian views... until then, I’m sticking with Trey Grayson.
Rand Paul seems pretty solid. He doesn’t hold his dad’s peacenik BS beliefs, best I can tell.
As for qualifications, there are none necessary, save as spelled out in the constitution. I’d take a random selection of ex-felons over the morons there right now.