Totally convinced when you probably take Romney out Rand is probably 1st or 2nd within the margin of error and this is why they can't allow him to take any label close to front runner before 2015 starts without anyones official announcement(s).
MSM working to fight off the Randslide, part of the revolution won't be televised...They think we're not keen to this but I'm no fool, nor are millennial voters who are a large part of Rand's cementing base. We ready.
The establishment's plan is indeed to crowd out Rand from the front runner position by populating the 2015-6 landscape with big time guys they can call 'front runners' to the exclusion of everybody else. Whether the millennial voters will make a difference depends entirely on
whether they come out to do so (the recent track record to date suggests young voters will only have a 12% turnout, unless an aggressive early voting effort is done to get their votes via the absentee process).
Otherwise, I still see no pathway for Rand to win a key early primary or caucus at this point in time, which is crucial for him to win anything else. The stage is being set for the PTB, through the media and/or the intelligence bureaucracies, to again steer the GOP public into giving another establishment-controlled guy the nomination.
We really haven't had even a semi-independent person win the White House since Reagan, and even he was soon compromised. After forcing him to make Bush his VP, Reagan was shot by a Bush neighbor to let the President know he needed to stay in line. From Bush onward, the Presidents have been CIA operatives, assets, or protected cutouts.
The decade of protection Barry/Obama got concerning his basic documents (carefully manipulated, or withheld from the public, dating back to BEFORE he was an elected official) is the clearest indicator as to how long the Obama family members have been controlled assets. The elite plan is still to install a Clinton clan or Bush clan member, as those families are similarly controlled.