[RonPaulLives]

Sounds ridiculous on it's face.
Mephistopheles himself couldn't have dreamt up Peppy.

What sounds ridiculous ??

I don't know for sure if I get your drift about "what stopped me from running." But this would have been the first thing that kept me from running in 1999:

From the Kentucky State Board of Elections homepage:
U.S. Senate

***Must be at least 30 years of age***, a U.S. citizen for 9 years, and, when elected, an inhabitant of the State for which he is chosen.

U.S. Const. Art. I, § 3

[Theophilus]

OK, I don't know, so technically maybe you don't qualify, the point I'm trying to make is that McConnell couldn't prevent a viable (more suitable than Peppy) candidate from from running. So how could he make such a deal??? So what do you really have against him?