I don’t know what the Las Vegas odds makers are saying but I believe the end result will probably be Rudy. Fred does look Presidential, I’ll give him that, but he has a lot more convincing to do. Lets see how he performs at the debate with Mathews. He’ll need all the “Gravitas” he can muster.
Forget the issues, as usual its going to be a popularity contest. Most voters don’t know what the issues are or what is at stake. When you get down to giving a pack of cigarettes to get someone to vote, do you think they know what they are voting for? When we as a nation are able to produce viable candidates without name recognition, who will win on issues, then we will have a real election. However, on the downside, it will be a boring election.
Think of all the talent we have in this country, then look at what we are given to choose from. Are we really dealing with the cream of the crop? Look at the Democrat front runners, what are the Democrats thinking?
They are laughing their arses off.
Their agitprop wing, the Mass Media chose the Republican "front runners" and made it so by telling Republicans everywhere those were the "front runners". (The big lie is alive and well).
Hillary probably has .pdf files of every scrap from their FBI Files, and enough dirt to scuttle each and every one of them. She is flanked by O'bama and Breck Girl, neither of which will win while she breathes.
Sound like a setup? It is.
The media have ALWAYS given Hillary the soft questions, ignore the wrongdoings, and more than enough of them still gush over her (>GAG!<)
Like him or not (I'm a Hunter fan, myself.), Fred is the one Republican candidate with enough name recognition who was not selected for ease in later destruction during the campaign.
Other less known candidates can be ignored by the media, and unless the internet can fill that gap, they will not get the airtime they need to build a strong war chest.
Fred is the wild card.
So expect the full court press, with every stumble, second of dead air, unremembered word, and teleprompter malfunction televised like Gerald Ford tripping over cables strung along the ground while he had kleig lights in his face and was attempting to look at the reporter asking him a question, or Bob Dole falling after leaning against an ill secured railing.
Expect questions like "Have you quit beating your wife yet?", answers cut off in mid sylable, crappy make-up, bad lighting, and camera angles calculated to make him look older.
The media are going to attack Fred pissless, in every way they can, because they are afraid of him.
I hope Fred is up to dealing with it, and imho, this just might explain why he waited to declare.
>When we as a nation are able to produce viable candidates without name recognition, who will win on issues, then we will have a real election.<
The American public has been so successfully dumbed down by their educators that they can’t recognize a viable candidate’s take on the issues as being worth voting for, so we haven’t had a “real election” since Ronald Reagan’s second term.
Yes, we have two men with fire in their bellies, their priorities properly lined up. One, Tom Tancredo, should be named Homeland Security Secretary and Duncan Hunter should be elected President. Now THAT would be a real election!