Posted on 02/06/2015 11:58:45 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee and Chris Christie, in case you're wondering.
I’ve said this before, in various places. But here’s Andrew Ferguson, saying it over at the Weekly Standard:
Boy, that didn’t take long. Over the span of a few short days in late January and early February, three members of the top tier of Republican presidential candidates demonstrated why they’ll never be president. They didn’t do anything to disqualify themselves directly, just revealed the traits that will make them appear unsuitable to most voters by the time the campaign really heats up, say, when the presidential election is a mere 18 months away. As it is, all three of them—Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, and Chris Christie—can pack it in right now and save months of time and tons of money. They’d be doing themselves a favor, and us too.
Couldn’t agree more. Huckabee, who reminds me of no literary character more than Elmer Gantry, has zero chance of getting elected outside of Arkansas and the Protestant part of Louisiana. Rand Paul is the acorn that landed mere centimeters away from the paternal tree. And Christie… well, let’s just say there’s a lot less there than meets the eye, conservative-wise.
Luckily, Mitt Romney has seen the light, or lack of it, at the end of the fundraising tunnel and is gone. And we can only pray that Jeb Bush finally lives up to his family’s own self-inflated sense of “service” to the country, does the right thing, and walks away, sparing himself both conservative obloquy and eventual electoral humiliation. With Scott Walker and Ted Cruz in the field, the GOP has far better choices.
What a gaggle of honking losers.
Add Carson, Trump, Santorum, Graham, Rubio, and Jindal to that growing list of guys who will never be president, and start the list of gals who will never be president with Fiorino.
The trick is getting THEM to realize it. And the sooner the better !
Fine by me. I wouldn’t let them handle a McDonald’s.
“Rand Paul is the acorn that landed mere centimeters away from the paternal tree.”
Unfortunately true.
Everytime I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, he says something to seems like it almost came out of his dad’s mouth.
Well, since the current chief executive never ran so much as a hot dog cart, that’s probably wise.
Yes, mother nature will edit the field sooner than later and it is headed that way now...as totally mad and fed-up voters’ numbers increase at an exponential rate.
And as we watch Obama now shoveling his traitorous dirt even faster, it is serving a purpose of waking up even the most low-informed and complacent voters.
Can we add Bush to the list. Do we really want Detroit to be little Mexico?
No sh.......
....errr kidding
Newt, Santorum, Cain and Backman
Oh yeah those guys. No need to read any further.
Also Jeb Bush.
Hey, he did work in an ice cream store and basically stole from his employer by handing out free ice cream to poor kids, or so he said.
Work, not manage. You and I are probably more qualified than he is.
We're going to have to beat Bush. The candidacy of the other folks on the list are non-starters to begin with.
” Newt, Santorum, Cain and Backman “
Add SJB and SOL.
I don’t think Bush has a chance. The name is tainted and that comment about turning Detroit into little Mexico. My husbands theory is Bush is running as kind of a bait and switch by the GOPe. So everyone will run to Priebus’ buddy Walker and be relieved it’s not Bush. He swears it’s a page out of the Alinsky handbook. Maybe he’s just paranoid.
Democrats are anticipating an enormous Republican field where no one gets traction but I think they’ll be disappointed. I think the field will quickly shake itself out, with maybe a front-runner emerging very soon.
Please run, John Bolton.
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