Brian Doherty on Rand Paul and Campaign Bucks

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is likely to run for president. That’s
not exactly news, but the libertarian-leaning senator got some
major earned media out of that fact last week, a front page
story in The New York
Times. It treated him seriously enough as a
potential candidate to zoom in on the vital question of money: can
this on-the-rise outsider with some heterodox opinions raise enough
to win a presidential race?

The story introduces you to a handful of big, big money
potential donors—none of whom are yet on the record as saying
they’ll bring out that big, big money via SuperPACs or other
uncoordinated spending to help Paul.

Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty explores the world
of Paul campaign money, both Ron and Rand, and concludes that even
if GOP establishment big money is scared to death of Rand Paul,
it’s wrong to count him out.

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