There is no question the GOP has some good candidates capable of taking down "The wicked witch of the west."
LOL....like who? Fred Thompson (or as you call him "the Savior of the Republican Party").....Huckabee? Jindal? Santorum?....or better yet.....Ted "Green Eggs and Ham" Cruz? BWAHAHAHAHA......the GOP doesn't have a decent front runner right now. Who is going to come out of the wings to save your beloved GOP NP?
Rand Paul is about the only good candidate from either primary mainstream party. Everyone else is just too many parts crazy for my liking.
Imo, anyone who thinks whomever is elected (from the bunch listed above) in 2016 will actually NOT do more harm then good for America is incredibly naive.
I believe, given the state of federal politics and the general ignorance of the American voter, that it is virtually impossible for truly fine leaders to rise to the White House. Heck, even decent ones cannot get in.
And so long as the public shrugs their shoulders and votes for mediocrity (at best) anyway...then they have NO ONE blame but themslves.
I believe, that to vote for a politician you believe to be incompetent but you do so simply because they are the 'best available' is unpatriotic.
And I also believe that to refuse to vote for lousy politician's even if that means not voting at all IS patriotic.
Rand Paul is good. But Ted Cruz is too.
Don't put a candidate's "sanity" into question. Everyone in the world is a little crazy.
America can't be that evil that they will support the murdering of babies. Don't call it pro-choice since the baby doesn't have a choice.
I don't know much about Webb in his policies as a Senator (he was a Senator until 2013, when Senator-elect Tim Kaine was sworn in), but it was cool that he was Navy Secretary under Reagan.
I think it's cool he served in the Marines too. No U.S. President was ever in the Marines. I don't think any Vice President was, neither.
When I look at these things, it is more through numbers than ideology. Therefore I am a bad choice to predict who the nominees would be. But I can tell you who would have the best chance of winning. The Republicans start off with 191 electoral votes in their trustworthy states. States that will go Republican no matter who they run and have gone Republican since 2000 in all 4 presidential races. Jeb Bush would win these states, so would John Kasich or Howdy Doody unless they stepped into a huge pile of manure. You add Florida to that mix with Bush that is 220. More than McCain or Romney received, but a long way from 270. Hence a Kasich/Rubio ticket would in my opinion add Ohio to that total bring the GOP up to 238.
The problem for the Republicans is the number of electoral votes in Democrat trustworthy states, 247. Just 23 shy of the 270 needed to win. This is where Jim Webb comes in with the state of Virginia, add its 13 EV and now the Democrats are at 260 needing just 10 more.
Left are the swing states of New Hampshire 4, North Carolina 15, Iowa 6, Nevada 6, Colorado 9.
The last 3 swing states are Florida 29, Ohio 18 and Virginia 13 which I mentioned above.
1.)Sincerely, not everyone is as jazzed about abortion as you are.
2.) Most people have reservations about it.
3.) Oh and referring to pro life as "anti choice" is a giant tell about where you're coming from, not that is in any way surprising to me,
4.) but you like to claim you're some sort of centrist on the issue and you're not.
nothing wrong with looking at it that way but in 2016 i think social issues will be big in america and may give some surprises to the numbers and averages
1.)Anything is possible. More than the social issues I will be watching the economy from now until 2016. It was the number issue in this years election, 45% cited it as their most important issue and 78% stated that they were worried about their and the nation's financial future. Healthcare was next at 19% and immigration third at 11%. Social issues never made the list, ISIS, Ebola, dissatisfaction with government, the deficit were all in single digits.
For social issues to rise the economy has to improve quite a bit in my opinion.
Anything is possible. More than the social issues I will be watching the economy from now until 2016. It was the number issue in this years election, 45% cited it as their most important issue and 78% stated that they were worried about their and the nation's financial future. Healthcare was next at 19% and immigration third at 11%. Social issues never made the list, ISIS, Ebola, dissatisfaction with government, the deficit were all in single digits.
For social issues to rise the economy has to improve quite a bit in my opinion.
The strongest ticket Republicans could run would be Romney with Ron Paul as his VP to cover his Right and religious rightwing flank.
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