I find it incomprehensible, but true, that Jeb may have more chance of making it now than the Hildabeast. He has that proverbial snowball's chance in that extremely hot place, she's already melted.
They weren't. They were to STOP OBAMA. The Republicans just happened to be the "Lane Closed" markers we chose. But they didn't do that at all. I think now the anti-DC sentiment is going to make it hard for any insider, including Cruz, to get very far. I don't care how much he was a lone wolf, the average voter is always going to know he was "there" at the time.
Likewise, I don't think the Obama elections were nearly as much about anti-Bush sentiment (there was a lot), but almost entirely about electing a black president out of atonement for racial guilt. I think most people thought they were "Getting that off the table." Of course we knew better, but all the focus on how liberal/radical he was proved irrelevant because that wasn't what voters were focusing on.
Our side better figure that out with Trump. It's irrelevant if he was for an assault-weapons ban in 1805 or whenever. It's about having a mass overhaul of WHO is running DC, not "with what policies."