the always predictable trump testing out the fried butner iowa. most interestingly as of late, the growing clamor of support for rand paul. in case you missed it, sarah palin appeared on another cable network this week espouse her support for team rand. >> i'm on team rand. rand paul understands. he gets the whole notion of don't tread on me, government. wraps chris christie is for big government and, you know, trying to go along to get along in so many respects. >> and msnbc's own chris matthews made this pretty bold prediction. >> so i predict the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016 and the nomination is going to rand paul. you watch. this is what i do for a living. >> all right. so my big question for republicans more broadly is why are we already identifying teams and choosing sides? for whatever reason, it seems like we are prematurely retreating to various sides of the political playground instead of taking ideas from all corners