Campaigning for father, Rand Paul asked about future White House bid
CONCORD, N.H. - Now that he's joined his father Ron Paul on the presidential campaign trail, Sen. Rand Paul is starting to get the question himself: Will he someday launch a White House bid?
On Saturday in Concord, the younger Paul said he's focused on helping his father and that "I can't answer questions beyond that."
But then the first-term Kentucky Republican offered an indication that it might be on his mind: "I am interested in the long-range goals of changing the country to having more limited federal government having more local control of our government. And you do that by speaking to the media, to groups around the country, or sometimes running for national office or maybe in the Senate."
The younger Paul held a forum at a sports bar sponsored by the Bartlet Center for Public Policy. Rand Paul echoed his father in criticizing Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, pointing to their support for increased education spending, as evidence that they are not representative of the tea party movement that considers the elder Paul a sort of intellectual godfather.