Posted on 04/04/2015 5:21:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the 2016 presidential field slowly takes shape, the race — even with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announcing his candidacy — centers on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.). While neither has officially declared, both are working feverishly behind the scenes, building an infrastructure; testing policy platforms; and preparing for a grueling campaign season. By many outward appearances, Bush has moved more aggressively toward an announcement with the formation of the Right to Rise PAC and a bevy of policy speeches. Yet, given the potentially crowded field of Republican candidates, including current and former governors and U.S. senators, Bush has little margin for error.
Clinton, on the other hand, has no such concerns, the ongoing email controversy notwithstanding. Her name ID alone laps the field of would-be primary challengers. Only Vice President Biden, comes close to matching her in name recognition. Moreover, a compilation of polling data shows Clinton with a 48.6 percentage point lead over a field of potential primary challengers. Her inevitability — should she decide to run — is real. Based on early polling numbers, Clinton has the path of least resistance to the Democratic nomination. Yet a head-to-head battle with Bush could spell doom, as his advantage in the all-important Electoral College is unquestioned.
Bush still enjoys enormous popularity in his home state of Florida, a key battleground state. That enduring popularity, along with the infrastructure of recently reelected Republican Gov. Rick Scott, will give Bush a decided edge over Clinton. Other key battleground states that deserve attention include Virginia, Pennsylvania and Colorado. A recent Quinnipiac University poll has Clinton and Bush even in a hypothetical match-up in the Virginia.
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Given a choice between giant douche and turd sandwich, I leave it blank if there’s not a third option.
Bogus headline all the way. Just more pushing of the two candidates the mainstream media have picked for themselves.
It’s extremely important to note that the MSM not only pushes candidates who reflect its ideology, it also pushes candidates who have the biggest war chests. Remember, a mountain of money goes to the media in advertising, and they want the tallest mountain possible.
So given a choice between Aids and Ebola, which would you choose?
Hah!
They are both Tomato Andy German pilots with known psychological problems who should not be granted access to the nation’s cockpit at all.
Jeb's dimbulb older brother, for example, managed to appoint one decent SCOTUS justice - Alito. (And probably got half his lower court picks right).
HRC, by contrast, would almost certainly replace Scalia or Thomas or Kennedy with yet another hard-left America hater who will tip the court fully Left forever and pretty much formally end the USA.
Is that reason enough to vote for the Jeb the Jawless Amnesty Blob, should he win the primary?
Probably not for me, but I would understand how patriotic conservatives would hold their nose and do it.
Just more PSYOPs from the libs.
I’ll be voting for Cruz.
Well, it looks as if we'll be dealing with "hanging chads" one more time.
Just waiting for Cruz to say during the primary debates: “Jeb, with opinions like yours, you should be debating Hillary!”
She had "inevitability" in 2008 also. Her minions were throwing that term around every chance they could.
Ya, Maybe Hillary will ask Jeb to be her Veep?
Someone’s gonna throw water on her and free the flying monkeys...
tell Jeb and Hill that there will be no Bozos on this bus. Just retire, already.
What “advantage” in the Electoral College for Jeb Bush?
FL (toss-up at best - maybe a slight edge since he was FL Gov, but for being a big state, big name politicians are few and far between so that isn’t saying much)
VA - No chance. He’ll underperform in the DC suburbs and won’t get the full backing of the rural SW. We’ve seen this play out over several cycles now.
MI - write-it off
PA - Write it off
NM, NV, IA, NH - Write them all off
CO - Maybe, but won’t matter with the other write-offs
OH - Lucas/Cuyahoga/Franklin combo will beat any RINO and some of those Dems that defected in the Southeast part of the state might go back.
So where was that Electoral College advantage again?
“Enormously” popular in Florida? Really? I live in FL and beg to differ.
If Ted Cruz runs at the top, he should take Rubio. That would ignore the traditional “balancing” of the ticket and use the idea Clinton did when he picked AlGore. A Cruz/Rubio ticket wins in a massive landslide. From the VP role, Rubio won’t have time to draft an amnesty plan so he should be okay for that spot.
This is looking good. With a MAJOR MAKE OVER, Miss Hillary is going to come out looking like Betty Crocker mixed with Wonder Woman. She will be invited to the Orpha Show and KAZOOM. Shazoom. Hokey my pokey...she will have the MSM standing in ovation at her gorgeous curls.....
But not the nomination.
That states it pretty well.
Clinton-Bush, Bush-Clinton 2016
Because a baseball bat to the head is just not complete without a crowbar to the knee.
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