Posted on 11/12/2016 5:32:33 PM PST by PJ-Comix
Okay the election is over and all is well but now I have to ask the question: Could any other Republican besides Donald Trump have beaten Hillary in the election?
Personally I don't think so. Jake Novak of CNBC wrote that Trump was essentially a third party candidate who was endorsed by the Republicans. Many Democrat voters in the Rust Belt which was key to victory voted not for a Republican but for Trump who himself repudiated by many/most of the Republican establishment.
When I look back at the other Republican candidates, I see no one who would have been capable of beating Hillary. Jeb Bush? Puh-lease. He would have spent a lot of his general election campaign apologizing plus he was a complete throwback to the past.
Ted Cruz. Okay I initially liked Cruz but I have come to see faults in him as a candidate. For one thing he had sort of a preachy tone which doesn't translate well to the campaign trail.
Chris Christie? Good on the campaign trail but Bridgegate would have doomed him.
John Kasich? A disgusting human being as we found out.
Marco Rubio? It would have been like a boy campaigning.
All I can say is we are extremely lucky that Donald Trump came on the scene. Only he was able to save us from a Hillary Regime which would have brought a liberal Supreme Court, eroded the Second Amendment, brought hordes of illegals and terrorist "refugees" across America, and, I believe, the basic end of our civilization.
Instead we dodged that horrible Hillary Bullet and the Democrats are now in total disarray. America has been saved and we have one man to thank for that...Donald Trump.
Many people believe Jeb Bush would have done even better than Trump. I however, am not one of them. If Jeb had
run, the election would have be called at 9:00 pm EST for Hillary.
I think Ron Paul could have (if he got GOP nomination!). Guiliani possibly. But surely not any shrubs.
Rand Paul could have - up to the point where he made a major political error in adhering to the party establishment at exactly the wrong time - but he’s the only other one.
If Jesus had run he could have, and the media would ahve hated him even more than Trump.
I don’t think so. A traditional GOP candidate running a traditional campaign in this environment would come across as crappier than Hillary.
It’s absurd to me that any of the usual suspects could close the deal in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Ohio.
GOP business as usual means 190 electoral votes.
No.
I don’t believe so, I spent 8 years with gut feeling Hillary was next president no matter who we ran... obviously wrong, but...
Not Hillary... could any other candidate have beaten the media?
There’s not one word in your post I’d change. It reflects my thinking exactly. So my answer is no, nobody else could have beaten Hillary, in my opinion.
Not just no but hell no.
Cruz never had a prayer in Hell. He’d have been lucky to crack 50% support among Republicans.
I am surprised she did as well as she did.
Without her legal baggage, she is a poor campaigner and has a personality worse than a dead fish.
Then there’s an improved economy that the masses don’t seem to feel.
Kasich didn’t even have the decency to welcome the Rep delegates to his own state. I always remember the governor of the host state, whatever party they are, speaking at the convention and thanking the delegates for coming to, and highlighting their convention city. A real moron.
No.
And if you haven’t read Scott Adams’ blog for the last several months, you should. I think he’s really onto something as to why.
NO! Which is why many of us supported him since day one.
I don’t believe so.
Anyone else would have been seen as part of the corrupt system.
Rubio was the second coming of McCain, and he never met a Muslim jihadi he wouldn’t allow to immigrate.
Under no circumstances would I have voted for him.
Trump I could bold my nose for even in the primaries.
No.
Nobody else could have withstood the withering, slanderous assault and would have been cowered.
I don't think he would have cracked 40%. And I was a Cruz supporter early on.
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