foresake a senate bid so republicans can focus on a candidate to retain the all important seat." another one. "politico".com quotes one member saying, "i do not want to lose a senate seat." . well, the moment of truth on this is here. it's tomorrow. tomorrow morning in kentucky rand paul needs a two thirds vote from the kentucky republican party from their 340 executive committee members. he needs a two-thirds vote from them that they want to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hold a separate new election in addition to their primary, specifically so rand paul can be allowed to get around kentucky law so he can run for his senate seat and for president at the same time. which is something that some increasingly outspoken kentucky republicans believe is a really bad deal for them because it