Don't try to schedule any dinner plans a half decade from now with Rand Paul. He's already booked.

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has already filed to seek re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2016.

The Kentucky Republican who has been talking about possibly running for president next year filed a statement of candidacy to run for a second term in the Senate on March 21, some three months after taking office.

Will he be a member of the Chinese Communist Party, or will he run on the Dog-Robot Alliance ticket? There's no way there's still a Republican Party that far in the future. [AP]