LOL...where’s the column about supporting funding for Planned Parenthood?
Oh, I see... the max score is 90. I guess that’s ok... I like 100 as a max and would use a normalizing factor, but that’s me.
The real fight is over the assignment. I wonder if it makes sense to give Trump a max “9” on electability. At least half the populace (all Dems, plus a significant number of GOPers) are being blasted by MSM and GOPe propaganda against him. It’s hard to believe it will be without effect.
Total garbage numbers. If Yeb! were even remotely electable he would be poling at least in the twenties. How many delegates does Short Bus Bush have, anyway.
Anybody can make up numbers out of thing air and plug them into a chart. That is all this is.
Who Should Republicans Nominate for President?
Weight Voting Dimensions Trump Carson Bush Rubio Cruz Kasich
35 Conservative Positions as expressed during campaign 2 4 1 5 9 1
15 Independence from donors & lobbyist influence 0 9 0 0 9 2
20 Executive Experience & Success managing large organizations 5 5 5 0 3 5
30 Electability — Name recognition & ability to win conservative / moderate / independent voters 9 6 9 5 6 2
100 44 56 41 33 69 23
If you cut your final scores in half, the numbers align with current polling data.
“The main point I want to make is that “conservative positions” is only one factor to consider in a candidate. In fact, the positions espoused in the campaign may not be realized when in office if the candidate is overly influenced by donors or lacks the management / negotiating experience of getting things accomplished.”
Conservative Positions HISTORICALLY is conspicuously missing. Just roll it back 30 years, to be fair and make up for the one or two “youthful indiscretion.” Anyone can say anything in the last two years and place at the top of this nonsense you are putting forth.
That’s not a bad way to look at things.
Laying out the criteria helps you decide what is important and what is not.
I’d disagree with your rankings on the first row. But then I’d give Trump credit for focusing on the most important issues that we need to fight for right now.
You could add a row on Foreign policy, but then I’d rank Trump higher than the other candidates there too.
Silly and essentially worthless graphic. Don’t quit your day job.
That is the DUMBEST scorecard I ever heard of. By your logic, you would vote for a far-left socialist wack job who has executive experience, is electable and has no donors over a staunch conservative.
DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB! And DUMB!
It’s the IDEOLOGY, stupid! Nothing else trumps that. Nothing.
eliminate obamacare, expand payers exponentially
rebuild the military
use the military using a more wise standard that we have been
deport illegals
build a wall
get our citizens back to work
get veterans the care they deserve
end common core
do away with the department of education, return control to local communities
defund planned parenthood
supports 2nd amendment
would appoint sound justices, even named two
end sanctuary cities, deporting criminal element right away
implement a better tax code
reduce and eliminate deficit spending, and pay down the national debt
...and more
Which six are they including and why are they ignoring the rest?
Rubio more conservative that Trump? I don’t think so.
bttt
I love your approach.
Cruz independent? Cruz is not independent of his conservative ideology. That makes him extremely independent of donors.
Cruz executive experience in the FTC, Solicitor General, etc is far better than anything Rubio has done.
So I could nit pick on the scoring.
The weighting? I dont know. It seems most of us would work that backwards to come up with the result we want.
Obviously put together by a Trumpkin to find what he wanted.
I think you've got that math pretty well captured in the excel. Where the anti-Trumps (and I'm not anti-Cruz) have a legit path of argument (though not necessarily correct,) is whether Trump's stated positions will be the one's he holds to.
We know he's a BS'er. The question is whether the BS'ing is a conscious act or an unconscious one. I'm pretty sure it's conscious, which means he doesn't believe his own BS, rather, he wields it ... and if he wields it against what's lately been emerging as a conservative establishment -> then good. I always like that Jaw Severin referred to himself and his listeners as 'small c conservatives' .... conservative as adjective rather than label or group.
I think most of us who support Trump's candidacy sense that on the central, vital issues, he's with is in heart as well as word. I'd rather sit down and discuss politics and religion with Cruz, but the time for sitting down and discussing is well past.
Good math and I enjoyed reading some of the insults :-)
And you did this.