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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VA - I pray you’re right, but I fear the Richmond RINO pols will figure out a way to keep Cruz off of the primary ballots, and the only one we’ll have on the computer screen is Barbara’s idiot son.
Okay,
As I looked at the image after reading your post...I noted that the waves are really not that clearly defined as waves..
The writer is having a wet dream. Only the MSM want these two.
I wouldn’t go so far as to call them twins, but they are related in many ways and blood is thicker than water.
RE: The only presidential candidate that has so far declared is Ted Cruz. The rest are still waiting in the wings.
The month of April will see a spate of official declarations. sHrillary included.
The Ministry Of Propaganda is a more fitting title.
OK. I like the acronym MOP. Perhaps we could call them the Dirty MOP?
If Hillary and Jeb are nominated, one or the other will become President. You could vote for someone else or not vote at all but one or the other will be elected.
Anyone who does not see that Jeb would be far superior to Hillary is a fool.
I have a $5 and pitcher of Margarita bet with my best friend that Hitlery never runs. I sure would like to collect on that one. :-)
Boy, you GOPe apologists are sure getting started early this election cycle.
I was going to say the same thing. Can’t wait until the fall of ‘16/s
Is Va a primary or caucus state?
And then of course, if and when they shove Jeb down the Republican voters' throats and he goes crashing and burning in November, it'll be the conservatives' fault, don-cha-know.
All we can work for this time around is to coalesce around Cruz so that the GOPe and their FreeRepublic apologists can't do it again and force-feed yet another miserable candidate in our face.
Primary state, run by the RINOs in Richmond. What's more, in Virginia there are no declared Party affiliations. Isn't that nice? The Richmond GOP is the gatekeeper for the primaries. Whatever the GOPe wants, they deliver.
Simple explanation: it’s a Mountain Boat :) Or, maybe more properly, a Mountain Ship :)
So it's a "jungle primary" like California recently adopted? (although in Va I doubt Democrats would be the top two vote getters like is happening in Cal)
The Left/Democrat Socialist Party needs another Bush on the ticket ... (and the GOPEs will likely do everything they can to accomodate that).
Well, Northern Virginia dominates the state, and it's full of Maryland transplants and Federalistas who lean left, unfortunately.
Thats a ship that has a Mountain to Overcome...thats for certain.
Perhaps those devotees, should be reminded of Ms. Clinton’s traitorous words just a few months back…”U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was right to say that President Bush "has on his shoulders the death of many more [U.S.] troops" because of his military misjudgments, explaining, "I know a little bit about" being commander in chief.”
She also said of our President for all the world, especially the terrorists to hear…”"a pattern and practice of misjudgments that add up to incompetence and lack of credibility."
”Sen. Clinton painted a grim picture of U.S. prospects in Iraq, saying: "We have lot of trouble - everybody knows that. My hope is that we can work our way out of the trouble we're in."
Way to go Hillary, you really know how to weaken the country – with remarks like these, who needs the terrorists to terrorize us. Today, Ms. Clinton stands somewhere in the middle of the Iraq war or so she says. The woman, as has been shown in the past, will appease to please the terrorists and the United Nations….nothing has changed, just the spin and propaganda…Ms. Clinton’s spots remain the same…” The Clinton duel presidency eight years compounded the North Korean successes. The diplomatic enticements and sweetheart deals it engineered or endorsed, including the Agreed Framework, all gave Pyongyang more resources and time to pursue its bomb.”
Like Al Gore or John Kerry, she will change her stance to whatever the popular crisis of the moment is. Ms. Clinton is a hollow vessel with no real commitments for her country, just other people’s ideas, words and deeds – she has none herself. If the borders need closing, why didn’t the senator take up the hue and cry for closure long before it became a popular notion; if our military needed more funding, why didn’t the senator ask for that at the time it was needed. She only comes on board when it is most advantageous for her to do so; no more, no less. Ms. Clinton is indeed an empty vessel, no genie here.
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