“A year, year and a half ago, I was a physician in a small town,” Paul, the junior Republican senator from Kentucky, told CNN’s Don Lemon. “And it would be a great honor to be considered as a vice president for the Republican Party. I think that would be something that anybody who said otherwise would not be being truthful.”

Paul, who on Thursday came out in support of Romney, said on CNN he had not discussed with the candidate the prospect of joining the GOP ticket…

“The nomination is now done and Romney has achieved the amount of delegates necessary to be the nominee,” Paul said. “Those are just facts. And I’ve decided to endorse Romney after meeting with him and talking about a lot of areas that we actually do have common ground on.”