The 2016 Republican Field: They Don’t All Suck

Red State ^ | 12/10/2014 | Eric Erickson

[Fiji Hill]

The fix is in

You're too pessimistic. You may recall how the elite wanted Nelson Rockefeller in 1964 and 1968 and George Bush or John Connally in 1980--but they came up short.

[nascarnation]

No lawyers, no Ivy Leaguers.
I like your list!

[Jeff Chandler]

[Responsibility2nd]

I've never thought this slogan was all that great. But the Repubs have owned it for some time....

Vote Republican - We Suck Less!

[taildragger]

I want to wrap it up so that we don't end up with "massholes" going up to NH and voting for a McCain type again, and sticking us with that pile of mush again. I wish the RNC would pull a cranal-rectal-otomy and hold their own debates with guys like Rush, Hugh Hewitt, Dennis Prager asking real questions Not little George Steffy, please. I want a chance to vote for a "Reaganite" just once again before I take a dirt-nap.

And oh yah, the E-GOP thinks that 12' was bad with 4 million staying home. Bawwahh LOL! they have no idea how many will stay home if they stick us with Bobby Bacala ( christie ) or Jeb or any of the other lightweights that need to hang it up and give it up trying to be a wannabee.

Yes I am a condescending and nasty about some of our supposed candidates, but I am so over my country being turned into something to the left of Stalinist Russia, and I am so over these supposed candidates egos.

We have leaders (Pence, Walker) we don't need Rove-K-Street-E-GOP-Chamber of Commerce Toadies to muck it up.

[Responsibility2nd]

Why Scott Walker?

His surrendering to the Black Robed Thugs on queer marriages in his state is a deal-breaker.

[okie01]

We need Senate Majority leader Ted Cruz, but that is just my 2 cents...

That would be a.) a waste of talent and b.) unlikely -- most of the GOP Senators hate his guts.

[ontap]

I have no problem with either Pence or Walker but neither is a particularly barn burner type of speaker....Ted Cruz is and won't miss opportunities to rebuke his adversaries like the moderates seem to always do. He is much in the tradition of Newt without the baggage!!

[Pollster1]

If a candidate supports abortion . . . amnesty . . . gun control . . . socialized medicine . . . bigger federal government, the candidate is liberal. I won't be voting for a liberal.

Good list. I'm not a fan of murdering babies. Amnesty will destroy the country, guaranteeing a flood of voters who have not assimilated or accepted American values. Gun control removes our freedom to defend our families from criminals and to disagree with an overbearing government that violates the Constitution. Socialized medicine will bankrupt the country while giving FedGov far too much power over our lives. And big government is a general term that includes all of the above and similar problems. There is enough evil in the world without generating extra liberalism in Washington DC.

[TangoLimaSierra]

So you think the media won't crucify the others.....I don't give a rats ass what the liberal media does.....he is the best of the lot hands down.

Right on.

[Blue Highway]

While Hewitt and Prager are better than the typical liberals, they are closer to RINOs than conservatives. Hewitt is a Romeny shill in case you were wondering. Medved from that same Salem Radio Network sounds more like a libertarian. I’d like to see Michelle Malkin, Trey Gowdy and Louis Gohlmert moderating. That would shake things up.

[USS Alaska]

Anybody who expects the GOP Elite to nominate a conservative for 2016 needs to have their head examined.

Does my new obamacare cover head examinations?

I expect to vote for Ted Cruz, but maybe he's too moderate for your tastes.

[taildragger]

Yes I pretty much agree. Yes Hewitt is a Romneybot, but compared to a Thomas Friedman types? Imagine Doc Savage, Howie Carr, or P.J. O’Rourke on the Dias, LOL! Now that would shake things up!!!

[Lisbon1940]

No governors.

[kevkrom]

I love Ted but the media will crucify him.

Our fear of the media is overblown - not in regards to their influence, but to the level that it matters who we pick. To wit: the media portrayed Romney as being further to the right than Cruz actually is.

[kevkrom]

No governors.

Um... I'll bite. Why not? Isn't executive experience a good thing to want in a potential President?

[CAluvdubya]

Abandon Hope because Jeb Bush or some other socialist light pansy is going to be the next US president. NOT a Conservative.

I agree. The only addition I'd make is Romney. He's making "I'm running again" noises. We'll be stuck with Romney or Bush

I'd love to see Walker or Cruz. but have no confidence that those will be in our final choices. We voted a resounding "NO!" on Obama's policies a month ago and we already have the GOPe ignoring it.

Our voices mean nothing.....

[Lisbon1940]

By definition they favor government.

[kevkrom]

By definition they favor government.

Technically, no, it doesn't. It means that they have governed. You can make the argument that this means that they tend to favor government, but it is not actually part of the definition.

The same logic would say that anyone who's ever held elective office is ineligible because they "favor government", which would mean handing the most powerful political office in the world to someone with absolutely no political experience or track record to judge him/her on.

I can't say that I think that's a good idea, on the whole.

[Lisbon1940]

Senators and Congessmen don’t govern.