Posted on 04/13/2015 11:47:23 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"........The Wisconsin governor leads in the latest Fox News poll..,leads in most Iowa polling and is either tied or ahead in New Hampshire.
Even with Paul,Cruz,Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee all at or near double digits,Walker is within 1.2 percentage points of Bush in the RealClearPolitics polling average.And even that is mainly attributable to an ABC News/Washington Post poll that has Bush up by a bigger margin than any other recent survey.
Since his announcement,Cruz has been pretty consistently been polling in the double digits.PublicPolicyPolling found his national support exploding from 5 percent to 16 percent.
What if that happens to Rubio and Paul too?At some point,it has to start eating into Walker’s base...
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...Walker is a governor,and for some Republican voters who have take the criticism of Barack Obama’s “community organizer” past seriously,that’s going to count for something.He can argue that his three tea party upstarts are simply a debating society.
Just as important,for the moment Walker is beating Bush.You don’t have to engage in total wishful thinking to think he might be a credible general election candidate.
Conservatives have been hungry for that.Not since Ronald Reagan has one of their own become president. Most years,conservatives have to decide between their principles and throwing away the presidency on a Michele Bachmann type who can’t win.
You know in your heart who’s right,but you know in your gut who can win.
That’s going to be a hard thing to beat.It’s an all-or-nothing proposition,however.If at some point Walker no longer looks like he can beat Bush or that he is not as strong of a Hillary opponent as Rubio or Paul,he is in trouble.
Conservatives might be in trouble too.The only way Jeb Bush can win the nomination is if conservatives fracture.What’s made this season different is that so far they haven’t. But the primary season is still young.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Ben Carson? Hahahahahaha!
We’re all family, be nice.
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This is rich:
“Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), the chair of the Democratic National Committee, called Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) “a prune wrapped in tinsel” today in an attempt to rebut the suggestion that he makes a “fresh” contrast with Hillary Clinton.
“When you have a prune that’s wrapped in tinsel, it doesn’t make it fresh and new, it makes it something old wrapped in prettier, shinier packaging,” Wasserman Schultz said Monday, per Saint Peter’s Blog......”
Okay, tell me what office or government position he’s held? We have NEVER elected ANYONE without that prerequisite to that position. All 44 presidents have held office or a high-level government position (or both) before their election to the presidency.
He broke the mold, at this point, you can't use the point you just made against anyone, yes?
I know.
I agree.
I hope he keeps talking up conservatism though!
The field will naturally shrink.
He was a state senator and a US senator. Even Abraham Lincoln, the closest we’ve ever come, did have one two-year term as a congressman. And although Grant and Eisenhower never held political office before being elected president, commanding large armies is its own type of executive governmental experience, not to mention their slow progression through the ranks to get there. Just being around generals and admirals constantly during my service I learned a lot.
Many people can be spokesman, but only certain individuals should be looked at seriously as presidential material. If I had a child in need of surgery, I’d call Dr. Carson in an instant, but not to be president.
We’re on the same page.
Like Bill Clinton said, people like the bamster used to bring him coffee.
Sorry, tis the truth.
Ping
Money line here is, “the only way Jeb Bush wins, is if conservatives fracture”.
It's the only way Jeb wins.
And the only way Hillary wins......
Wasserman said THAT? You have to be kidding! LOL!
How DOES that girl keep her job! LOL!
Not my point. My point is is that we don’t elect people to that office without the right resume. Lincoln was actually a fluke due to a four-way race, if you’ll remember.
Talk about a brain fart!
Which the bamster destroyed as a point, as he had zero resume.
Hey, great minds— something like that? I’m with you.
Did we learn anything from last time? I sure hope so. The opposition, the RNC and the media ran the gap and it worked. We lost.
They will repeat it until it stops working, too. :)
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