Rand Paul announced his candidacy for president this week, and the libertarian Republican was immediately greeted by a chorus of doomsayers. NBC News went with the headline, “Why Rand Paul Probably Can’t Win Republican Nomination.” Dick Morris says, “Rand Paul can’t win.” The New York Times’s Nate Cohn says, “Perhaps in a decade or two, a representative of the libertarian wing of the party will have an easy time winning the nomination. It’s just unlikely to happen in 2016.” And Times columnist Nick Kristof fired off this tweet shortly before Paul announced:
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