Posted on 07/14/2014 7:09:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Monday, Morning Joe played a game of Fact or Fiction and Joe Scarborough had a lot to say when they arrived at this prediction: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) will win the 2016 GOP nomination. Fiction, fiction, fiction, Scarborough declared.
Scarborough admitted that if Paul runs he will probably do well in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, but beyond that, he will be his fathers son.
MSNBCs Lawrence ODonnell said he would have agreed with Scarborough assessment, but does not know who on the Republican side has what it takes to beat Paul. I have to continue to look at the field and I have to come up with a name that can get the nomination in this party, he said. The best anyone seated around the table to come up with was Mitt Romney.
Who will beat him? Eugene Robinson said of Paul. Somebody. I just dont see him as the nominee, and if push comes to shove, here comes Mitt.
Earlier this year, Paul won the annual straw poll at CPAC for the second year in a row, beating Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who came in second. Ron Paul won that contest in 2010 and 2011, but was never able to come close to securing the Republican nomination for president.
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You of course assume that Hillary will be their nominee. She couldn’t beat a neophyte freshman senator but she’ll hold off all those people on her side who want to be president?
I think chicken hawks are delusional. America is bankrupt by any standards of Accounting practices. $17.6 TRILLION in official debt, and one hundred Trillion in UNFUNDED liabilities to Medicare, Social Security and others, America is now beyond bankrupt nation.
Super powers can only exist on economic superior foundation. Like USA was in the 1950’s & 60’s, and 80’s (thanks to Reagan). Every super power of past 5000 year recorded history of world met it’s demise by engaging in foreign military adventures with a bankrupt treasury.
But all the chicken hawks care about is the MIC, on the backs of our children & grand children.
Wake up to reality and smell the coffee. All our efforts should be on strengthening the domestic economy and pay off the debt. We need foreign military adventures like a hole in the head at this period in history.
But I want to know what Scarborough’s dead intern thinks of 2016!
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