[mylife]

Chrispy Creme at #2?

GTFO!

[mylife]

Watch Christie’s first ad in his walkover 2013 reelection race. Then imagine that as the start of telling the Christie story to a national Republican audience. Pretty powerful stuff. Yes, Christie has something of a base problem given the (false) idea that he somehow cost Mitt Romney the 2012 election because of his embrace of President Obama during Hurricane Sandy. But, Christie’s regular-guy populism is a nice fit for the times. **PUKE**)

[gusopol3]

Too early to decide, but I certainly want to see what Ben Carson can do.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Completely bogus list.

Palin not in the top 10?

[campaignPete R-CT]

unfortunately, their rankings look accurate.

And with Rand Paul in the race, it dries up much rural grassroots populist activism that otherwise could go to Cruz.

[Liz]

Hey Rand---here's a couple issues for ya:

<><> Benghazi do-nothing WRT slaughtered Americans

<><> Hillary's State Dept covers-up sex scandals---obstructs justice---scrubs investigations

<><> Holder's DOJ (labels journo Rosen a criminal--seizes AP dcumnts--snoops USSC/Congress' blackberries)

<><> IRS political targeting

<><> IRS steals 60 million private medical records

<><> HHS' Sibelius strong-arms Obamacare insurance providers for money

<><> secret NSA snooping

<><> IRS sending $45 Million/32,000 EITC refunds to illegals at ONE address.

<><> Snowden globe-trots w/ US secrets

<><> EPA uses phantom email accounts

<><> Holder's Fast and Furious gun-running; savage drug cartels kill two US border patrol agents

<><> 5 million Ohaha henchmen w/ top security clearance---Ntl security undermined

<><> govt wiretaps rose 71% last year alone

<><> O's drones shoot down Americans outside military parameters

<><> monstrous TSA travesties

<><> Solyndra and other green money-laundries

<><> sucking up to gays and other predator/perverts

<><> forces Boy Scouts to admit gays.

<><> Obamacare (and other laws) violated at will

<><> The Data Hub---HHS' database of personal info

<><> PP'hood profiteering---will control Data Hub

<><> forcing primitive populations w/ Third World loyalties on US taxpayers

<><> violating 2nd amendment rights

<><> empowering Planned Parnthood's abortion savagery

<><> PPhood genital-sniffers as O'Care navigator

<><> police state---monitoring license plates 24/7

<><> food foreign aid---EBT card abuse

<><> the Obamas' non-stop luxe tax-pay vacays.

<><>DOJ advises Muslim council edgy social media posts violate civil rights/religious freedom---
<><> Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev's inflammatory postings not mentioned

<><>DOJ asserts "global Christian terror" (?) rivals worldwide Islamic violence threats

<><> Obama orders shutdowns of coal-fired, electricity generating plants

<><> Big Brother surveillance/punishment

<><> radical judges/ Obama commissars hostile to 10th Amendment.

<><> Obama admin investigated by the House, Senate, FBI

[montag813]

It doesn’t sit well that the leftist Compost is promoting Rand. I am with Cruz, who they and the NYT slam at every turn.

[a fool in paradise]

Has the Washington Poo indicated who Hillary Clinton’s running mates should be?

Is Joe “plugs” Biden among them?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh Okay. LOL!!!

Try:

1. Rand Paul
2. Ted Cruz

Now stop

[Dysart]

I appreciate everything that Cruz stands for and his tireless work against leftist rule and GOP establishment, but more than likely the nominee will be a Governor. Someone who has experience running things. I'm afraid it will be Jeb Bush, but I really like Scott Walker. I think he'd be effective having shown the ability to take the battle to the entrenched left in his state and win; this is no small accomplishment.

I really don't get the Christie predictions here and there. Have they forgotten he has no support in the South?

[trebb]

Let’s see if we can start dividing and conquering our possible choices before a name hits a ticket.

[upchuck]

I call BS on Chris Cillizza's article for this:

5. Jeb Bush: This is our holding-pattern ranking for the former Florida governor. If he announces he’s running or even that he’s moving toward running — heck, we’d take a Bush trip to Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina — then he is likely our No. 1 on the list. But, he’s not doing much of anything regarding the coming presidential race at the moment, so he stays where we’ve had him for months. (Previous ranking: 5)

Plus, he's ranking Ted Cruz at #6, behind Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie.

This description of his antics at the end of the article pretty finished it off for me:

He is the author of The Gospel According to the Fix: An Insider’s Guide to a Less than Holy World of Politics and an MSNBC contributor and political analyst. He also regularly appears on NBC and NPR’s The Diane Rehm Show.

He obviously is NOT a conservative. And is probably an operative for the GOP-e. Pay no attention.

[Theodore R.]

Watch McC endorse the establishment shoice, leaving his new-found friend Rand far behind.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Could they be any more ignorant of conservatism?

[Lee N. Field]

Crap! For a second I thought it said Ron Paul.

[RKBA Democrat]

Why even speculate? Its going to be Jabba and Jeb or Jeb and Jabba.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Neocons don’t play nice. Rand Paul will be smeared out of public life if he makes a serious run. It will be ugly.

This was a nice couple of weeks. But prepare for the dying empire to continue perpetual war. Pray for your kids.

[ek_hornbeck]

While I’d greatly prefer Rand Paul to crypto-liberals like Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, I find his support for amnesty for illegal immigrants hard to stomach. I don’t think that I could bring myself to vote for any pro-amnesty candidate, which, as far as I know, leaves Ted Cruz as the only acceptable GOP candidate who is likely to be running.

[sargon]

Chris Christie is a Northeast anti-gun Republican. He also signed absolutely Tyrannical legislation relating to Free Speech and the conversion of gays to ex-gays.

Consequently, Christie has absolutely no chance of winning the GOP nomination in 2016, nor any chance of being on the ticket as VP. Any northeasterners who think Christie is a viable national candidate are beyond deluded.

If there's one thing that can de-energize the conservative/TEA party base, it's liberal northeast Republican gun-grabbers.

Combine that with the fact that Christie consistently has to wipe 0bama's j--m off his face, I'd say that Christie is about as likely to be the GOP nominee in 2016 as Mitt Romney is...

[Theodore R.]

I don’t think he could even win KY, much less be elected President.