According to "Meet the Depressed," the GOP front runner is...Rand Paul

Karl Rove is either laughing, or deep into a private Skype session with Dick Cheney over today's assertion by Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that Rand Paul is the current Republican front runner. Todd cited Rand's first place showing against the Hildabeast in most recent polls as his rationale, but the roundtable did concede the "Cheney" wing of the party (meaning the wing that controls it) will work Rand over in the coming year.  The topic of JEB!'s low support among potential Republican primary voters managed to get an honorable mention by the roundies.

Also notable among the depressed today was moderator David Gregory's explicit assertion that the Crown Prince will not run, and instead is already working for Prince George P. for 2024 (Gregory didn't specifically say 2024). That contrasts directly with   Kathleen Parker's admonition a couple of months ago on Hardball that she had been told "definitively" that JEB! will run in 2016. It's certainly possible that Rove is sending out conflicting signals to the MSM on purpose. If sanity and reason were guides, JEB! would recognize he has little to no change of gaming the election and stealing the White House for his family's Restoration in 2016, and a Maoist long march to 2024 with the fake, reactionary Hispanic Obama scam using Prince George P. is the best option.

Stay tuned.