Posted on 11/16/2014 5:44:31 AM PST by Brandonmark
We concede: You're exhausted from the election, the hurricane of attack ads and door knockers. Sick of Rick Scott and Charlie Crist.
But brush it off, the 2016 presidential campaign is upon us, and Florida is in the spotlight like never before. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush are seriously considering entering the race and either would stake a formidable claim to the Republican nomination. They will announce their intentions by early next year.
For Rubio, it's a decision of whether to give up an almost sure shot of re-election. (By Florida law, he can't go for both.) At 43, he has years ahead on the political stage. Bush, 61, would have to surrender the harbor of semi-private life for the grind and glare of a national campaign.
Add in their close relationship and the difficulty of two candidates hailing from Florida, a crucial swing-state reservoir of votes and campaign cash, and things get interesting.
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None of the above!
The GOPc is the conservative wing of the Republican party, and is the only means for achieving the conservative agenda.
No thanks..... I hope to be voting for Cruz.
The daily beast reports that possible 2016 also ran John Bolton, has endorsed gay marriage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8IIHn7iCbY4#t=86
He would not get my vote for president
Seems it’s old news, from August 2013. I hadn’t heard.
Politics1 just tweeted it like it was new, I can’t believe the gay democrat that runs that site took more than a year to notice it.
where da crowd go? Football?
first order on To Do List is destroy all fake conservatives and 2nd tier splinteristas. Huckabee, Carson. Steve King, Santorum. Maybe Rick Perry.
only one conservative coming out of the early states and it cannot be a freak-candidate like Huckabee or a PatBuchanan type.
I don’t necessarily have a problem with Bolton at State, but the gay stuff could cause serious problems (also, how does he feel about the homofication of the military ?).
Christie F
JBush F-
Rubio F
Huckabee D-
Romney F-
Carson D
Just great!
” The daily beast reports that possible 2016 also ran John Bolton, has endorsed gay marriage.”
One more F grade
Hold me back. /s
Looks like we can add Santorum to the list. He is making noise — seeing if he can get any moneymen to back another run.
Yep. More waste of time.
Both have burned far too many bridges with conservatives and Republicans.
Neither will get the Republican vote, and both would lose the conservative Independents.
Perhaps they both could run as Democrats?
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