Good for Rand for putting himself out there

Fox Business News’s decision to keep Sen. Rand Paul off the main debate stage in South Carolina last week manifested more of the bad luck that has dogged Paul throughout his presidential campaign.

A poll taken in the window that FBN used to determine debate participants showed Paul in fifth place: high enough for the main debate. However — through no fault of the Paul campaign — that poll result was not released until just after FBN’s cutoff.

When FBN offered Paul a spot in the “undercard debate,” he startled many by declining.

Paul then did the best he could with a bad situation by getting more interviews than he could have obtained as a debate participant.

Paul’s presidential campaign has not taken off the way many of us had hoped. That’s a disappointment, not an embarrassment.

Fifth place in a Republican field overflowing with qualified contenders, any one of whom would be better than President Barack Obama, is more than respectable, particularly given this competition.

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