Posted on 03/09/2014 1:38:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
March 9, 2013
Drew Zahn
When it comes to picking a presidential candidate for 2016, the GOP elite is having a hard time getting the grassroots to toe the establishment line.
Top Republican strategist Karl Rove, for example, has repeatedly praised Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, as “a strong potential candidate in 2016,” whom Democrats fear will win the nomination.
And when other names gained popular attention, particularly attention among the so-called tea-party crowd, the man known as the “architect” was quick to criticize.
Rove, for example, blasted potential presidential hopeful Ted Cruz for not playing ball with the GOP establishment, just as the Texas senator’s name started to gain traction with Republican voters.
Rove similarly opened fire on Sen. Rand Paul, R-Tenn., for talking about Monica Lewinsky and potential Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the same breath.
And even if Christie has fallen from favor among the establishment, other GOP insiders have floated names like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and even the return of former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as possible nominees in 2016.
But now a poll on one of the Internet’s top websites, the Drudge Report, reveals the ground troops just aren’t buying it.
With over 234,000 votes counted, Rove’s “strong potential candidate,” Christie, was garnering less than five percent of the vote. Bush had just over six percent. Ryan had less than four.
But despite fiery criticism from the GOP establishment, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was registering over 28 percent in the Drudge Report poll, while Tennessee Sen. Rand Paul was leading the survey, with over 30 percent. Paul’s 72,297 votes compared impressively to Christie’s 11,437.
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24.8%...
Not sure where the hell you are getting your numbers from.
Cruz/Palin - Palin Cruz. I’m flexable.
Paul supports them man who just said he’s gonna crush the TEA Party. I could live with Ted.
To clarify...live with Ted Nugent. West is fine as well. Not big on his Pigford/Trayvon sympathies but he’s still well over 80 Percent.
Rand supported him to help get traction to change Ky rules for a Senator keeping his office while running for higher office. Plus, that support for McConnel came before Mitch opened his fly catcher.
Rand still supports him after this latest kerfluffle... Then I’d agree. F*ck him and the horse he’s chosen for himself.
Some of West’s recent speeches on RKBA have really won me over.
Well, ain't that a crying shame? I was just about to offer him a test drive in this here vintage Shelby Cobra and a free lunch.
Seems I keep running into all sorts of weird luck with these Ford trucks. I'll be in the parking lot if he changes his mind!
He’s off my list regardless with his amnesty crap but it would be to his credit if he tells Mitch to pound salt. He can’t serve two masters.
Yes, he does have good ideas/positions. But that’s existential stuff for America. Amnesty kills us.
Unfortunately Agent Lenhart has been permanently reasigned to Ft. Marcy Park. We thank you for your concern.
Check...”Rosebud”...check...
Look into the light...
Agent K
NSA MIB Division
Been a lot of fluff posted about what Rand’s position on immigration is. Only legislation I’ve seen him purpose is “nothing else considered until we have control of the border.”
When your ship is sinking, plug the hole first. We were saying that back when Bush first took Office and did pretty much... Nothing.
The way I see it, Mitch votes pretty conservative too at times. But he does an awful lot of balloon floating and such I see Rand mirror. That is never good. Can’t trust him.
Homie, that's a maglite. And quit blinking that thing like that. Yer givin me a headache.
He’s been a conservative vote so far. Unlike Mitch, McCain, etc...
And look at all the confusion right here on FR over him on what he does on his ‘off time’. It aint that hard to be conservative without setting half the base against the other half. That’s the sort of crap Mitch “I’m gonna crush the Tea Party” does.
Subject 4511138,
Apparently your conditioning has failed. Please sit in the back of the van and await a driver to transport you to a reeducation facility.
Agent K
NSA MIB Division.
(check yer doggone freepmail, would'ya?)
No. They have a network that they can mobilize nationwide to pack polls. But, they cannot mobilize voters, locally, on Election Day.
IMHO, you’ve got the roles, and individuals, reversed.
Actually, if our years here have taught us anything, “We eat our own”.
With alarming regularity.
No, unless you believe that Cruz is a better statesman and Rand Paul the better bulldog. Typically, the VP twists arms and the President acts as a statesman.
Define “Our own”. If ‘our’ willingly includes giving aid and comfort to one of the biggest RINOs to ever pollute the Republican party, then I want no part of ‘our’. Especially when there is a conservative running that could potentially remove Mitch from power.
I also note that people love the phrase “Hold their feet to the fire”, yet when someone actually does it, it becomes “Eat our own”.
Can’t have it both ways folks. Simple reality.
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