Chris Matthews: Rand Paul Will Be Republican Presidential Nominee in 2016

Newsbusters ^ | 08/08/2013 | Noel Shepphard

[SeekAndFind]

MSNBC's Chris Matthews made a bold prediction on Wednesday's Hardball.

"The hard-right is going to take over the Republican Party in 2016 and the nomination is going to Rand Paul" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish tonight with this. I’ve been offering a prediction of late. Let me nail it down now. I believe the Republican Party is going to go hard-right in 2016. It’s going to run someone from the growing hard-right wing of the Party, something it hasn't done since 1980. And here's the thinking which works equally well for the Democrats.

Parties as you've noticed face a conflict every four years. Should they run someone who represents their strongest passions right or left, or do they run someone who appeals to the middle? Most of the time they head to the middle. And this is what Republicans did most successfully in 1952 when after 20 years of FDR and Harry Truman, they wanted back in the White House. They ran the General who received the Nazi surrender. And guess what? They won. In 1956 and ’60, they stuck to the middle with Ike the second time, and then with Richard Nixon.

In '64 the right said it was its turn and blew the roof off the Cow Palace in San Francisco mocking Republican moderates and liberals like New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Then getting killed with Barry Goldwater running against Lyndon Johnson.

The Democrats ran moderates in ’60 and ’64 and ’68, but then went wild in '72 and ran anti-Vietnam warrior George McGovern of South Dakota. That's the year the Democrats got killed.

And so then the pendulum goes. The party bases get pushed aside for several elections and finally build up like steam much like a volcano and come roaring to the surface. Obama won in 2008 over Hillary Clinton because the opponents of the Iraq war had had it with the party leaders who played it safe and backed the war.

I believe the Republican base will do the same in 2016. They put up with George Bush the first, put up with Bob Dole, were deeply disappointed with the big-spending George W, and last year again by Mitt Romney, and are now going to come loaded for bear for the race for 2016.

So I predict the hard-right is going to take over the Republican Party in 2016 and the nomination is going to Rand Paul. You watch. This is what I do for a living.

I'm quite sure there are a lot of conservatives that hope Matthews is right for a change.

Stay tuned.

[EricT.]

That would get my vote.

Otherwise, I don’t see anyone else testing the GOP waters who I would vote for.

[Forgotten Amendments]

The MSM and neocons are going to DESTROY Rand Paul. If he makes a serious run there will be stories about him eating Jewish babies at Klan rallies. They’ve already started. They tried in Kentucky ... but he survived there. He’s going to be a distant memory by 2016.

[Vinnie]

No complaints from me. Probably #2 on my wish list. Just below Palin.

[GBA]

No, they haven't.

Make Canadian born Cruz your nomination and you'll see what else there is to say.

I definitely won't vote for him to be President, not unless we are having another Revolution because the Constitution is truly dead.

But...he's definitely eligible for Senate leader! And, he'd do a lot of good for the Constitution and the nation he claims as his home in that position.

The choice is: use him for what he is eligible for or sacrifice him and your integrity.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Based on their recent record, the Republicans might nominate Hillary Clinton.

I say Bob Dole. And for the gender gap - Bush. Barbara Bush.

[mykroar]

I could live with that, but I have a feeling the GOPe will foist Chrispie or Jeb on us.

[BenLurkin]

Creeps like Matthews have no clue what “hard-right” means. In order for anyone to be “hard-right” they would have to side by side on the political spectrum with hadr-left. In other words a socialist statist.

[Hotlanta Mike]

No tingles for you, Matthews?

[gunnyg]

we’re better off w/obama; then no sane man can deny/project the truth away !!!!!

Semper Watching !!!!!!
Dick G
*****

[Colonel_Flagg]

"Most of the time they head to the middle."

I'm trying to think of the last moderate Democrat that ran for President.

2008, 2012 - Baraq. Communist.
2004 - John F'n Kerry. Traitor, socialist.
2000 - Algore. Environmentalist whacko.
1992, 2006 - Bill Xlinton. Wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist Party.
1988 - Mike Dukakis. Inconsequential liberal.
1984 - Walter Mondale. Vice-President to the second-worst President since Reconstruction. Reliable liberal stooge.
1976, 1980 - Jimmy Carter. Anti-Semite, liberal.
1972 - George McGovern. See 1976 without the anti-Semitism.
1968 - Hubert Humphrey. Today, he'd be a Republican.

What was that about going toward the middle again, Chris?

[Responsibility2nd]

I definitely won’t vote for him to be President....

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Oh you’ll vote for him all right. In a choice of Cruz over Hillary - you’ll pick Cruz.

Or you’ll be like a lot of trolls that vote 3rd party or some other silly tactic that essentially hands the election over to the libs.

[Blackirish]

In the last election he predicted George Allen.

[Beagle8U]

“”The hard-right is going to take over the Republican Party in 2016 and the nomination is going to Rand Paul”

I’ll take ‘Things that don’t go together’ for $500 Alex.

[Buckeye McFrog]

He has strong and growing support from young people. Most of whom I doubt are registered to vote in GOP primaries.

[Beagle8U]

Friends don’t let friends vote for Liberaltarian idiots.

[ilgipper]

I am curious. If Cruz is not natural born, when was he naturalized?

[muir_redwoods]

A vast improvement over 2008 and 2012

[nascarnation]

If it’s Hillary v. NJFatboy in Nov 2016, I’m writing in Putin.....

[SeekAndFind]

Did you miss LBJ?

He was the one who started the GREAT SOCIETY and the WAR ON POVERTY. Legacies that we’re still paying for today.

[Jewbacca]

Fortunately, the settled law (whether you agree with it or not) permits Cruz to be president.