Bill Kristol’s Latest Smug Prediction Is Good News for Rand Paul

Here’s another doozy from TV’s up-failing King of Bad Predictions: This Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Bill Kristol declared that Rand Paul would get less votes than Ron Paul did in the 2012 Republican primaries.

Asked for his reaction to a Facebook survey showing 57% “favorable interactions” with the libertarian-leaning Sen. Paul (R-KY), Kristol said:

I think Rand Paul is totally overrated as a 2016 possibility. The media loves him because he takes a couple of liberal views, publicizes them in an incoherent way. I predict Rand Paul will get fewer votes than his father got in 2012.

The elder Paul, who was considered a long-shot from day one, received 2,095,795 primary votes (~11%) in 2012. It would be tough for Rand Paul not to surpass his father’s vote count, but, hey, Kristol could end up being correct — a broken clock is right twice a day, etc., etc. And politics is a very unpredictable business (as Kristol knows well).

But given the Weekly Standard editor’s hilarious history of self-contradiction and poor predictive analysis: If you’re rooting for Sen. Paul in 2016, Kristol’s assertion is undoubtedly encouraging.

(P.S. – Readers, what are your favorite bad Kristol predictions? Mine’s that time he said in 1993 that the peak of the gay rights movement had passed. LOL.)

Watch below via ABC:

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