Scarborough: Rand Paul Just Demonstrated How ‘Thin-Skinned’ He Is

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough weighs in on President Barack Obama's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 6, 2015.
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“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said on Friday that potential presidential contender Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) did himself no favors with his combative media appearances this week.

“I was really surprised by how thin-skinned Rand Paul was,” Scarborough said on his morning show, referring to a week when Paul shushed a female CNBC journalist during an interview and then slammed the “liberal media” for reporting on his vaccination comments.

The MSNBC host suggested that Paul staffers take a hint from Ronald Reagan’s campaign team, which reportedly intervened after he lost his temper during an appearance in the mid-1960s.

“His entire campaign team surrounded him after he blew up and said, ‘If you do that again, we’re all leaving,'” Scarborough said. “Somebody needs to say that to Rand Paul.”

“He can’t afford too many more weeks like this or he becomes the Ross Perot of the Republican Party in 2016,” he added.

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  1. Yes, Rand Paul is thin-skinned, and a total moron - just like his daddy. He says he is for the public health of American citizens, and says people should be vaccinated, yet he and other people in his political party want vaccinations to have exemptions based on religious or political objections (oh those black helicopters!).
    The disconnect in logic is astounding. Kinda like saying you are pro-life while having a dead intern in your office, isn’t it, Morning Joe?

  2. Concur.

    He is, however, exceptional in feckless verbal duplicity.

    Which, unfortunately, is adequate for the millions of his followers.

  3. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree when it comes to being thin-skinned. Ron Paul famously walked off a television set a few years back when pressed about his racist newsletters. Someone close to me had a similar experience a few years before that. Then, when the critical news coverage appeared, the Paulists came out of the woodwork to defend their hero. I think this might be a side effect of being a cult figure; you get so used to unquestioning adoration that it comes as an unpleasant surprise to learn the whole world doesn’t feel the same way. Rand better get used to it if he wants to be a front-tier candidate.

  4. If anyone knows about being thin-skinned, It’s Moanin’ Ho

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