Posted on 04/29/2016 8:27:40 PM PDT by pogo101
Who, with the benefit of hindsight, were your preferences for the GOP nomination, in order?
And if you feel like adding it, whom did you #1 prefer in 2008 and 2012?
In 2008, I preferred Fred Thompson.
In 2012, I preferred Rick Perry.
In 2016, my "preference cascade" was:
1. Rick Perry (OOPS) 2. Bobby Jindal 3. Scott Walker 4. Marco Rubio 5. Ted Cruz 6. Whomever else is nominated and can stop the Democrat nominee.
I started with Walker but quickly switched to Trump.
So did he (Perry), recently. FWIW. (I haven’t but will crawl over broken glass to stop the Dem.)
Sorry, I misread Walker as Perry somehow. “Oops,” as the TX guv would say:)
08- Duncan Hunter
12- Herman Cain
16- Ted Cruz. His time has passed
I will vote for Trump with absolutely no enthusiasm.
2008 - Thompson
2012 - They all sucked, but I voted for Newt.
2016 - Started with Cruz, switched to Trump after I read his books and he convinced me he was serious.
2016: Trump start to finish, never liked anyone else
2012: Don’t really remember, maybe Ron Paul
2008: I was a Democrat then, but I did like Palin once she arrived on the scene.
Well stated, FRiend, esp for 2012. Would that FRed Thompson (... who we now know had cancer) had had the fire in the belly in ‘08. GOD. I can only imagine the Electoral College wipeout we would have won with him had he had the energy.
2012 Cain
2016 Cruz & Carson were my top picks - I didn't think I'd like Trump, but now it's Trump all the way
Ex-Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma should’ve been drafted to run in 2008. As an FBI agent, he pursued Zero’s terrorist mentors. He’d have been finishing up his two terms now in a vastly different country we find ourselves in.
1. Bobby Jindal
2. Bobby Jindal
3. Bobby Jindal
At the same time, I knew the lowest-IQ ten percent of the voting population would ride his crooked coattails right over the edge and into the abyss. Never fails.
As soon as Trump jumped in, I was for Trump, and still am. His policy proposals are more closely aligned with the Republican Party platform than any Republican candidate since Ronald Reagan.
Holy crap, I LOVE that response. I nearly got a clerkship (law clerk) with Keating, but his nomination as a judge to the 10th Circuit never went through because Democrats. :)
2008: I liked Fred Thompson
2012: I liked Newt
2016: I started out with Cruz but have switched to Trump
Jindal had it all, didn’t he? Executive experience. Legislative experience. Conservatism. Great family. Not enough people in the GOP care.
Fred might have been able to do something. But I’m pretty disillusioned these days. I don’t know if any of the guys we used to look at as ‘conservative’ in Washington were ever serious about what they promised us.
Maybe they were right all along that Fred was just a stalking horse for McCain. We’ll probably never know.
Yeah, 2012 was a dog of an election. I was hoping Romney would win the general, but I hated the sight of him so much that I wouldn’t watch any of the debates...lol
2008 Huckaby (got a baseball signed by Huckaby and Chuck Norris
2012 Romney — it was a weak field
2016 Rubio — great field - can’t believe we’re going to nominate Trump. Will be the toughest vote I ever make. I don’t know if I can vote doe someone so unqualified.
2012 -Santorum - still bitter. Lol.
2016 -Walker - trump
Romney was a pussy, tactically.
In his partial defense, “Romneycare” as drafted and advanced by the very-conservative Heritage Foundation was just a requirement that every non-poor person have CATASTROPHIC covereage. Once passed into law in MA, however, the regulations turned it into the precursor of ObamaCare. Not really Romney’s or Heritage’s FAULT, but a valuable lesson.
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