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VANITY: Could Any Other Republican Have Beaten Hillary?
Self | November 12, 2016 | PJ-Comix

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.


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KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; crookedhillary; donaldtrump; hillaryclinton; republicans
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To: nopardons

I can think of several Republicans other than Trump who could have beaten Hillary. Unfortunately, they are all dead...Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan.


61 posted on 11/12/2016 5:51:16 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: PJ-Comix

The better question to ask is:

Could God have raised up another republican to be president?

yes... he could have.

He could have made Pee-Wee Herman president if He wanted to...
but He didn’t.

He Chose Trump... Just like He chose Obama.

That is good news for us, because it means He has set us on a better path than the one we were on.


62 posted on 11/12/2016 5:52:24 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: PJ-Comix

The Republican establishment hammered Cruz worse than Trump, who was also a change candidate, but he didn’t have the personality to pull it off. Cruz would have gotten the conservative base after they reconciled, but never would have gotten crossovers like Trump did. None of the others were change candidates except for Ben Carson and a little less Rubio. He kind of finally blew it when he let Trump get under his skin, especially when Trump accused his father of killing Kennedy. He should have just laughed it off. I do hope that Trump considers him for SCOTUS, for which he is well qualified. He was always better suited for that anyway.


63 posted on 11/12/2016 5:52:40 PM PST by richardtavor
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To: laconic

Yeah thats why so historic to me... first time any candidate won, beating the opponent and both of the establishment parties... really as symbolic as a 3rd party win would be.


64 posted on 11/12/2016 5:53:00 PM PST by AzNASCARfan
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To: calljack

We all remember that Jeb! WAS UNBEATABLE!!!

HA! Trump defeated the Clinton Crime Syndicate; and the BushBitch La Cosa Nostra ~ Trump schlonged 16 RINOS, HRC, the RNC, the MSM, and all the pollsters ~ with no ‘dirty dollars’ (self- funded) by being who he is!

Make America great again!


65 posted on 11/12/2016 5:53:08 PM PST by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Snickering Hound
Oh please...little Marco? LOL

He lost me way back when he did the rebuttle to the SOTU, when he as a green, sweating, nervous Nellie n00b.

The Dems wouldn't even have needed to throw out anything at all about "foam parties"! ;^)

66 posted on 11/12/2016 5:53:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: dragnet2

Shades of John Galt...


67 posted on 11/12/2016 5:53:32 PM PST by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: All

Nope....

None of the others would’ve campaigned as hard or been as straightforward to the people as Trump...


68 posted on 11/12/2016 5:54:00 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

No sir. I think had Rubio not messed up on immigration, he’d have had a chance, but he’s still basically a lightweight. Let him seasin in the Senate for a while and get some battle scars fighting for Trump and we can talk in 2024.


69 posted on 11/12/2016 5:54:23 PM PST by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: PJ-Comix

NO!


70 posted on 11/12/2016 5:54:58 PM PST by freedom6178
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To: FreedomPoster
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.

I not only read his blog every day but I read all his tweets and often watch his Periscope chats.

71 posted on 11/12/2016 5:56:09 PM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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To: mvonfr
Neither of the Pauls are worth a bucket of warm piss and both are the antithesis of a GOPer of any stripe.

Rudy could have beaten wee Barry in '08, but the vicious campaign against him, before he even threw his hat into the ring and the damned PURISTS, especially here, were the ones who made certain that he wouldn't make it to the nomination.

72 posted on 11/12/2016 5:57:56 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

The only thing Bubbles will be doing in the Senate is undermining President Trump and working to try to stop him from enforcing the law and sending tens of millions of illegals back to their homes.


73 posted on 11/12/2016 5:58:36 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: PJ-Comix

Nope.

They’d have done what they always do and pandered to groups, gone to the middle watering down prior promises, and pissed us off.


74 posted on 11/12/2016 5:59:02 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Nope. Right man; right place; right time. The power and unscrupulous state of the Clinton Crime Family and all their minions had to be taken on by a real fighter. The namby-pamby Republicans meandering around in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood were destined to be crushed. To take it further, I believeTrump was God’s gift to give us a chance. No doubt he is a flawed man as are we all. But since when has God not put greatly flawed men to work in crises. I have been thanking God every day since Tuesday night.


75 posted on 11/12/2016 5:59:13 PM PST by Southflanknorthpawsis
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To: PJ-Comix

Only Trump was tough enough. Her dirty tricks machine would have destroyed anyone else.


76 posted on 11/12/2016 5:59:28 PM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: PJ-Comix
I would have wanted Ben Carson to win because I read his book on the Constitution. However, I understand that Dr. Carson would not have been ready for the liberal news media hatestorm and DNC fraud that slams into opponents of tyranny like a freight train. Also, I don't think he would be as aggressive and a go-getter as President Elect Trump.

So yes, I agree, Donald Trump was actually the only good guy who could also win the race.
77 posted on 11/12/2016 5:59:43 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: nopardons

Other than Trump, he was the only one that looked good on tv and has a pretty family too.

Like I said, we’d find out a lot more about foam parties from the democrat machine and media.


78 posted on 11/12/2016 6:00:23 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: nopardons

Yes, Rudy would’ve fought to win, but other than his law & order credentials, he didn’t have a record supporting Conservatism socially (pro-abort).


79 posted on 11/12/2016 6:00:50 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: PJ-Comix

Of the 17 contesting for the nomination? No.

I can tell you who would have eviscerated Hillary Clinton in the debates, though: Newt Gingrich. He probably would not have won the general election, but what he would have done to Clinton in front of live audiences in the debates would have been entertainment for the ages.


80 posted on 11/12/2016 6:01:54 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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