I couldn’t agree with you more. There was absolutely nothing to be gained by Paul going on the Rachel Maddow show, especially to throw away momentum the day after his primary win. Her show is very far left; the audience demographic will be almost uniformly hostile and he should never have answered her hypothetical about settled law that has been in effect for 46 years. I have no idea who his schedulers are; they must be the same idiots that put Sarah Palin on with Couric and Schieffer, neither of which have the slightest interest in being objective. At least Maddow is an open and transparent left winger.
That one activity alone should make conservatives pause and consider his judgement, possibly his sanity. Some people have such large egos that they think they can actually fly.
Politicians are an entirely different species.
It's the deep, pathological drive among some libertarians to be the smartest people in the room, even though it alienates more people to their cause than it attracts.