Posted on September 16, 2014

Cenk Uygur: Rand Paul Is a "Voice Of Reason" On ISIS Compared to Hillary

CENK UYGUR: If I was a betting man, and I am, and there was a site where I could bet on politics, and there used to be... I wish that site was still around because right now I'd lay money on Rand Paul being the next president. Because he's gonna be, not because you should mark it down. But because you will get great odds. The reality is, he now stands about a 25% chance of winning the whole enchilada. By the time we have the 2016 election, the mess in the Middle East will be much worse. Our bombing will not have worked. And we will have unleashed even more hell and more trouble. Rand Paul has covered his bases, he's not like Ron Paul, he knows how to compromise, he knows when to put out a statement that he knows is going to help him politically.



Ron Paul, his father, didn't care about political statements that helped him, he just stuck to principle no matter what. Rand Paul says no, ISIS is horrible and I support bombing ISIS, but I would have asked for a Congressional authorization. And then he makes crucial distinctions of how he would have supported the fight against ISIS, so he can turn around and say yeah I was for fighting ISIS. And when it goes wrong, he has a legitimate claim to say see I told you we shouldn't have been bombing ISIS in the ways that we did. And that's clever. And might be prescient. Watch out for Rand Paul, or maybe don't, maybe watch out for Hillary Clinton. All of a sudden national politics is a little bit interesting, it's not absolutely clear who you should vote for.