Posted on 11/10/2014 10:28:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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With the Democrats still licking their wounds from last week’s election losses, the Republican National Committee has pivoted to the 2016 presidential election and is offering up a list of 32 potential candidates, including Sarah Palin, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ron Paul, his son Sen. Rand Paul and Condoleezza Rice.
“In 2016, we will have the opportunity again to elect principled conservative leaders, including one Republican qualified to take on the Democrat running for president,” said an email from the party, in an apparent reference to Hillary Clinton.
“Voters proved our country is in need of qualified and strong Republican leaders who share our beliefs — especially in the White House. Let us know which Republican you would like to see as the presidential nominee in 2016,” it added....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Get one more from each state and have a full fifty to choose from. Or 57 if you want to accommodate the deranged people in the 1/2 white house.
So are we going to have another series of debates with each candidate getting 20 seconds of air time?
This is stupid.
Pick 2-4 candidates and let them debate.
Then choose the GOP standard bearer early.
RON Paul?
LOL.
The one that Hillary doesn’t want to face?
SENATOR TED CRUZ
You gonna let the RNC decide which ones?
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The TEA Party needs its own convention in 2015 to pick a candidate to support in the primary.
32 candidates, including Ron Paul, and they didn’t have room for Mary Fallin?
(Hint: she’s against amnesty.)
My top five are on the list, in no specific order: Cruz, Palin, Pence, Santorum, and Jindal. There are a very few on the list that I would like to hear more about. There are a lot on the list whom I would like to never hear from again.
They need to find someone new.
The List
New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
Businessman Herman Cain
Dr. Ben Carson
RELATED: For Rand Paul, a downside to the midterms
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
RELATED: Marco Rubio to decide on 2016 within weeks
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
Ohio Gov. John Kasich
New York Rep. Peter King
New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul
Former Rep. Ron Paul
RELATED: Before he runs for president, will Cruz make nice with a GOP Senate?
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence
Texas Gov. Rick Perry
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio
Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan
Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott
South Dakota Sen. John Thune
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
Former Florida Rep. Allen West
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com.
FR is going for Cruz.
The moment he announces, the candidate merry-go-round shuts down.
No, Mary Fallin.
Who has been buzzing about Ayotte, Barbour, Pawlenty, Rice, or Scott?
32 names to throw against the wall to see which ones might stick.
Maybe, 4 or 5 will stick.
Too many fail this test: Is this the best the GOP has to offer?
Too many will end up as ‘mentions’ in the footnotes of the Annals of Republican Presidential Wannabes.
” RON Paul?
LOL.”
: )
Hope he runs. No one has done as much as he for the country.
YES!
DeMint/Newt 2016
Would he even consider running against his son?
I doubt it!
I agree.
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