Insurance I don’t think he needs cause he’s not gonna resign his seat. But sure. Also he’s old and could die. And who knows, Rand could get caught with cocaine.
Worse it would be 4 more years (8 probably) of torture for the poor people of Kentucky under yet another bluegrass mafia democrat Governor. You’ve suggested the off-year election might be problem for us, IIRC (right?). In any case the dems are way too powerful on the state level, I didn’t think West VA would start turning before Kentucky. We need Bevin and some other Republicans to win statewide office. Looks like we have decent candidates for everything but Sec of State, which looks a coronation for the bitch who Mitch just pitched
If he’s forced to step down as Majority Leader, he may see little point in keeping his seat. The Weeping Boner didn’t want to stay unless he remained Speaker. Once these guys get the power, they don’t want to go back to being a backbencher.
The only Republican who did that in the past 50 years (off the top of my head) was Speaker Martin. He not only endured the humiliation of never getting back his position as Speaker Rayburn assured him he would in 1956 (Rayburn let Martin hold onto the large and spacious Speaker offices after the 1954 midterms since Rayburn didn’t want to play musical chairs while he kept the Minority offices for 4 years. Rayburn would’ve been astonished it would take 4 decades for a GOP majority to come back around), but he was ousted as Minority Leader in 1959 and still chose to remain until he was finally primaried by Peggy Heckler in 1966.