Let’s double down.. Rubio/Martinez ticket.
It’s all identity politics now, so pick Martinez and whichever guy is better looking. If women are so superficial that they bought into Obama’s “vote your lady parts” BS, we should give them Barabbas.
Jeb
Pick your candidates based on racial identity if you like. I’ll have none of it. Jeb Bush, Rubio, and the like would all do nothing to stop illegal immigration, and would in fact encourage more of Mexico to come here, thereby making our problems worse.
You overestimate the GOP.
The top contenders, no matter how much we gripe are:
Jeb Bush
Chris Christie (Yes, he is)
Bob McDonnell
Marco Rubio has a shot if he runs, but he will suffer the same vote-splitting that Conservatives did this time around in the primaries, most likely because of immigration.
Bobby Jindal is another outside shot.
Mike Pence - he’s the ideal GOP presidential candidate. A real conservative... everything Romney wasn’t. The GOP liberal establishment didn’t want him this year.
If the GOP liberal establishment keeps pimping on us Democrat-lite liberal candidates, it will lose. On domestic and foreign policy, Romney was to the left of Obama. Incredible but true. The voters weren’t fooled and will pick the Classic Coke over the New Coke any day.
If we don’t nominate a real conservative in 2016, we had better start planning for the next defeat.
And, oh yeah, the Republican party is toast.
In California Republicans have tried the “we should just do whatever Democrats do” thing. It doesn’t work.
Democrats are always going to be better at playing that game than Republicans.
I know 2010 was the GOP wave, but Marco Rubio got 49% of the vote in a 3 way race with one of the candidates being the sitting governor.
To me, that was absolutely incredible.
Unless Senator Rubio has some crazy skeletons in the closet that Axelrod will dig up, he’s my pick.
I would love to see how the media will try to challenge his outreach to Latino voters as he’s giving a speech in fluent Spanish somewhere.
If all that is left to us is to pander to an ethnic group by offering a candidate from their group, then it doesn’t matter. We are finished. Also, if any of those people accepted the nomination based on that strategy, I would lose all respect for them.
No one.
The game is over.
OMG can we not give politics a rest, it has been less than 24 hrs since the polls closed, what next start the republicans primaries tomorrow>
What’s this obsession with Rubio? He is a Establishment pet that make good speeches - he is the shadow for Jeb Bush
I could give two $hits who the GOP picks for 2016. This was my last election. I’m done with them all.
It will be Hillary in 2016. Let’s not kid ourselves. Rubio is too smart to put himself on the line like that.
The problem is that if history is any guide, they’ll all run and Jebbie or Fatso will win the nomination with about 1/3 of the votes.
It doesn’t matter. Republicans can’t win. We can not attract the hispanic or black vote because they just want freebies. America is not interested in what republicans are selling. Simple as that.
Martinez, she has the Executive experience. With Rubio as VP.
Maybe we can get one of them to announce that they’re gay and another to start gender reassignment, then we’ll have a chance.