Paul has the benefit of not being embroiled in any serious scandals—something that cannot be said for many of the other likely Republican nominees. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are all entangled in scandals of varying degrees of seriousness in their home states. So far, the most damaging thing anyone has uncovered from Paul’s past was his membership in a secret society in college that took part in hijinks like worshipping a satirical deity named Aqua Buddha.

The Democrats’ strategy to defeat Paul seems to be to engage him as he tries to gain experience, with the hope that he’ll misspeak his candidacy to death before it gets off the ground. “This is smart politics for the Democrats,” Rosenberg told The Daily Beast. “What you want to do as opposition is you want to go after the candidates when they’re inexperienced…We saw a deeply inexperienced candidate [in Iowa]…and a lot of early scrutiny could really weaken him.”

Or so the left is hoping.