number of times, but does he have the influence within the gop to get much of that done? i imagine moderates in the party will look at him with some skepticism and then, of course, his tea party friends won t take too kindly to him abandoning their messages. is he really the guy for this? he sees that. this is a demographic problem for the republican party. what he said is, look. we have done well in the south, but we haven t done well in the west, in the northeast, and we haven t done well in the great lakes areas. we are a party that has support from the tea party conservatives, but he feels really strongly they need to broaden that message out to bring in a lot of younger voters, folks who supported his father s libertarian torch and rand paul wants to carry that torch as well.