Let's not.
In a business, that would be like promoting a hotshot salesman to CEO, instead of the Chief Operations Officer. No board of directors in their right minds would do that.
Rand Paul needs to get some EXECUTIVE experience under his belt before taking on the biggest executive position on the planet. Let's see him manage the government business of an entire state before we elevate him to president of the US.
Same goes for every other prospective presidential candidate. Legislators do not make good presidents. The current ex-Senator is making a complete mess of this country, and the fact that he's never run so much as a hamburger joint is proving to be disastrous.
He has executive experience successfully running his own business after he earned his medical degree - an ophthalmology practice. And he founded, and runs with his wife, a professional medical association in his region.
He’s actually doing things, instead of waiting to comment on them, even though freshman senators are meant to sit quietly and observe the masters in action. And he’s proposing real cuts, real things to do to address the real problems we’re facing as a nation, not just this clown-show with Boehner and Schumer and ‘real’ Republicans and tea partiers. And he has experienced people close at hand to draw from.
Sell me on someone else then, instead of just invalidating him and any legislator for the position. He hasn’t sought this, but I’ve been impressed by him when considering all those who have.