The Next Rand Paul...?

NEW YORK-After the Kentucky Republican’s civil-rights act controversy, GOP leaders are anxiously eyeing which Tea Party upstart could cause the next earthquake. The Daily Beast on seven races to watch.Tea Party darling Rand Paul steamrolled his establishment-backed opponent in Kentucky’s GOP Senate primary last week—then steamrolled himself, making remarks about the federal government’s role in regulating private business sufficiently controversial that suddenly the entire Republican Party found itself having to pledge allegiance to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Paul implosion may be just a taste of things to come, in an election year sure to see more untested insurgents finding favor with an electorate ready to throw the bums—and the bums they support—out...
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Picture Left:Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul addresses a luncheon meeting of the Lions Club in Bowling Green, Ky., Tuesday, May 25, 2010.(AP Photo/Ed Reinke)