joining us now is joe gerth. a political reporter for the journal in kentucky.w would this work, exactly. would republicans just be changing the presidential nomination system for themselves? or would they be changing it for the whole sing? >> i'm not sure if it can work, to be perfectly honest with you. just a little bit before i came on the air here, i looked up the state law. and the state law says that political parties shall state all their candidates by primary. >> it may be that they ooertsd just spit balling the way it's getting into the national political press imcreasing frequency about rand paul's political process. does it seem like to you that this is a technical matter? >> it is a problem, but, at the same time, there may be some work arounds. this has been some top of him just not running for president in the primary in kentucky. that would allow him to be on the ballot for thest senate. kentucky's primary is very late in the yearment if he would do that, he could run for senate, he could run for president and he wouldn't be harmed if he lost. the