WSJ Columnist: Nominate Rand Paul Because GOP Needs 'Another Humbling Landslide Defeat'

[DonViejo]

TOM KLUDT – APRIL 15, 2014, 11:25 AM EDT

Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens revisited one of his favorite themes on Monday, arguing once again that what Republicans really need is another defeat in a national election.

According to Stephens, a Rand Paul presidential nomination in 2016 ought to do the trick. The columnist offered an endorsement of the Kentucky Senator that oozed with sarcasm.

No, what we need as the Republican nominee in 2016 is a man of more glaring disqualifications. Someone so nakedly unacceptable to the overwhelming majority of sane Americans that only the GOP could think of nominating him.

This man is Rand Paul, the junior senator from a state with eight electoral votes. The man who, as of this writing, has three years worth of experience in elected office. Barack Obama had more political experience when he ran for president. That's worked out well.

Stephens took aim at Paul's former staffer Jack Hunter, whose troubling past includes a defense of Abraham Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist also mocked Paul's suggestion in 2009 that Dick Cheney wanted a war in Iraq to deliver profits to Halliburton.

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[Gman]

1. I actually agree with Paul about Cheney

Cheney was CEO of Halliburton prior to dropping everything like a hot potato and agreeing to run as VP. While CEO, Cheney purchased all these asbestos companies and assumed their contingent liabilities in the mega-millions if not billions for asbestos related lawsuits. Halliburton was almost bankrupt due to these liabilities when Cheney became VP. So what's the best way to bail out Halliburton? Start a couple of wars and award Halliburton the no bid contracts. Check the price of HAL in 2001 and compare it to the 2008 price. Remember the talk about Cheney's HAL options?

[WhiteTara]

2. That was from Rupert? The GOP needs a humbling defeat?

Great. Bring it on.

I was sorry he retracted Cheney is a war criminal statement. That is true.

[Mike Daniels]

3. Another great suggestion from the WSJ reporter...

He wrote that the GOP base should "demand an IQ exam as well as a test of basic knowledge from our congressional and presidential candidates."

It's laughable and embarrassing that we actually allow people who deny various scientific principals to serve on committees having anything to do with that subject.