Ted’s solid! Rand sold his soul to McConnell, and Walker is squishy on amnesty. So Cruz or lose!
Cruz and Walker split the conservative vote. Jeb rolls in on the GOPe Express. Brilliant!
So. Who do you want to drop out? Or, are you saying Bush is inevitable?
There is ONE, maayyyyybbeeee another in this contest who I miiiiighhhht consider if my choice doesn’t make it to the nomination.
Regardless, Jeb Bush will never get a vote from me - ever. It doesn’t matter if he has the entire GOPe and all of Daddy Warbucks’ money machine behind him. There isn’t enough money on this planet to get me to hit the mark for him.
A conservative would not tear down a fellow conservative, even to be president.
Why should we take advice from a writer we never heard of before?
quote “The problem for conservatives is that this election is shaping up just like 2008 and 2012”
The difference is the wierdo conservatives in those years were idiots no one could support or vote for regardless of their views.
This year I am VERY HAPPY with both Cruz in particular and/or Walker. I will gladly vote for either one of these great men.
Nuts like Santorum and Paul are just a distraction like the many other nuts that have run in the past.
Cruz is the single most dangerous Republican candidate to announce a run in my lifetime since Reagan. Liberals smart enough to know better are wetting themselves today.
The only conservative that I see is Ted Cruz.
Jeb Bush is a “conservative” ... like Obama.
Just ask Terry Schiavo.
That’s what people voted for in November. That’s why Republicans swept the country. Rinos aren’t responsible for that historic 100 year win. Conservatives are.
Rand Paul is not conservative, not by a long shot. Walker has some conservative tendencies, but I’m not sure about his views on illegal immigration and foreign matters. The only solid conservative at this point is Ted Cruz.
There are always too many conservatives in the mix. That’s the problem. We need more RINOs sniping at each other.
Ted Cruz is all I need to know.
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So “Leo” has been on here since Mar 2014 and had NOT posted ANYTHING about him/her self so HOW does anyone know that YOU are NOT nothing but a “Concern Troll”?
That’s funny. I only count ONE.
In fact, there is only one party: The Great Squishy Center Government Party. Ideology is not their issue. It's division of spoils and the mutual awarding of financial benefit, both checks being written upon the public funds. Since there is a perception by significant numbers of the American people that the present government has failed, there is a perceived idea that the way to achieve office in 2016 is by standing for constitutional principles and conservative government. The hope, perhaps a vain hope, is that over 50% of the voters will agree at least for purposes of the election.
The fact that I am a Republican and John Boehner et al. are Republicans is not a valid concept. We disagree, obviously, in principle, on strategy, and above all on tactics. The United States has the Two=Party System as a matter of mere convenience. It has failed.
It’s way too early to make this kind of pronouncement. Having “too many” Conservatives in the race right now is a good thing; it acts as a hedge against having one who imploded in spectacular fashion like Perry did in 12 and Fred Thompson did (ok, Thompson sort of sputtered and fizzled) in 08.
Let the candidates run. Let them make their cases. Let’s see how they do on the trail, in the debates and how well they build and run organizations in the early states.
We should know who the best overall option should be after New Hampshire. That person needs to be able to take on Bush and win South Carolina and Florida (if they move their primary to mid-March. If we don’t consolidate around a candidate by then, it’ll be Bush’s nomination to lose.
But for now, we have time and can allow the cream to rise to the top.
Yup. Romney dropped out. Christie has imploded. Bush has basically locked-down the moderate/liberal Republican segment.
The annoying/worrying thing is that I could see him winning a handful of primaries with low percentages, and then building a “momentum” narrative with help from his liberal media buddies (who really just want a stooge for Hillary to beat).
Right now there is only one guy running officially.
I'm sure Karl Rove and the rest of Team Jeb are very happy to see the conservative vote split. With any luck, conservative anti-Bush votes will consolidate very quickly around a single candidate (no later than SC, hopefully by NH or even IA), but a more likely scenario will be a Cruz vs. Walker split on the right.
When was that, I missed jeb's announcement? He did announce an "exploratory" to see if he might run, but the ball-less bush, DID NOT announce he would run. Not that I care.