I thought one of the driving forces behind the Tea Party was a fight against the “business as usual” mentality that plagues our leaders. Rand Paul has done a great job of stereotyping himself as one of those type of leaders and this doesn’t help with that:

Kentucky Republican senatorial candidate Rand Paul wrote in a newspaper four years ago that he would have pardoned himself if he had been the state’s scandal-plagued governor at the time.

Paul’s opinion piece in the now-defunct Kentucky Post appeared shortly before a judge dismissed accusations that then-Gov. Ernie Fletcher, a Republican, had violated state hiring laws. The same judge had previously ruled that Fletcher could not be tried while in office.

Yeah – he is really different….NOT!