Posted on 04/25/2015 3:48:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer said that Jeb Bush “is lagging” and “should not be in single digits” on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel.
During the show’s Friday candidate casino segment where the panelists bet $100 of fictional money on presidential candidates, Krauthammer put $40 on Marco Rubio to win the GOP nomination, $25 on Bush, $20 on Scott Walker, $5 on Ted Cruz and the remaining $10 on wine, women, and song. He explained, “I’m increasing my investment in Rubio. I’m feeling vindicated and somewhat cocky, having been in on the deal very early when he was at 3%, and now he has shot to 13%[continued]
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In order:
Walker: he is a true blue shrink government republican. Like Reagan he is a believer not just a talker. And he is a very hard working politician.
Cruz: Crafty, very smart, top lawyer. And he has balls. He can work harder, faster, smarter than any president we have had in a long time.
Paul: Very knowledgeable of DC through his father, also smart. Not going to accept defense industry money. So we won’t go into needless wars.
Rubio: He is bought by the defense wing. But he is an easier sell to the Rinos and he has lots of legislative experience in Florida. Expect compromises with him. He can probably deliver Florida.
Bush: the media, the big money, and the low information voters like him as well as the Mexicans. The rest of you think Rubio is hispanic. Well, if you’re Mexican you don’t. Columba is the real thing and Rubio is Cuban. Juan Gomez from Texas is not voting for Rubio. Bush can deliver Florida. Expect a “split the baby” president.
Huckabee: The only religious right candidate. He is also the best in front of a camera. As a long time governor he has more political experience than most people know.
Perry, Santorum, Christi, Carson and others not named, have no chance because there are too many alternatives with more backing.
Fiorina: The stalking horse. She has no political experience, except losing races. But she is a women. A women who survived breast cancer and led a large tech company. While she will never win the presidency in 2016, she will hound Hillary to the far corners of the earth on women’s issues. And she is the odds on favorite as a VP.
‘Single Digits’
Wow, he’s doing that good?
Juan continues to be a disaster....
Kraut has lost his mind.
Twisted logic bro, it was you and your purist homies who stayed home and gave this country Obama........
In case you missed the news bro, there were seven major individuals running in the 2012 GOP primary. The GOP obviously didn’t influence YOU or ME since our guys didn’t win. So what makes you think that the GOP influenced the outcome of the 2012 primary????
The only difference between you and me homie is that I chose to vote against Obama and you stayed home and whined about your guy not getting the nomination……..
So stop it with that nonsense that the “GOP gave us Romney” when they did no such thing. It was you and me and the other 19 million voters who decided who was going to be the Republican candidate in the 2012 election and it just so happened that Romney got 52% of the popular vote while his closest competitor was Rick Santorum who only received 20.5% of the votes………It wasn’t even close!
Did it piss me off because Romney got the nomination? You bet it did especially since I lost a $100 bet that he wouldn’t get the nod.
But you know what? Like I said, I voted while YOU stayed home……….so don’t blame Obama on me or anyone else when it was you stay at homers who were solely responsible for what we got!
Thanks, Lurkinanloomin. I agree wholeheartedly with your position. And it seems that we actually have a chance of electing candidates who go against the miserable left-leaning, America-hating trend Obama and his flunkies, including Hillary, have set.
Walker/Cruz does seem to me to be quite powerful — and more to the point, quite electable.
Would Cruz take VP? Can we talk him into it? Think of the utter stupidity of Biden, the utter irrelevancy. It does NOT need to be that way. Cruz could transform the office of VP into something powerful, relevant, a place/office where the concerns of the citizenry might indeed become important.
Let’s save Rubio for eight years. He’s quite wonderful. Let him ripen in Congress. If he can keep his skirts clean, sponsor and champion truly American values, he can be prez nine years from now.
Do you mean 16 years?
Shows how ignorant you are. I held my nose for Romney, even though I knew better than to believe anything he said.
I will not be voting for Jebster or Rubio regardless of the efforts of people like you.
Just to be clear i also voted for Romney.
Rubio is dead to me. I still have a knife in my back from his scheming with Schumer and his Gang against the citizens. I’m not in favor of giving him any more knives.
Yeah, the evidence has been shredded, on BOTH sides.The Bushes are over. In spite of their being one of the most important, powerful, and legitimately questionable family dynasties America has ever know, they are Past Tense.
Forgeddeabout them.
Where do we go from here? How in this insane world do we preserve even a shred, even an idea of constitutional, conservative values? Who in world cares and wants to propagate original and wonderful American values and systems?
I find it impossible to listen to a speech from Rubio all the way through.
I can barely stand his emphatic bullet point speaking style. The cadence is all wrong. It’s just plain miserable. He sounds like he’s trying to sell you a timeshare vacation.
I know I’m not alone. The guy is over rated.
A time-share salesman! I knew he reminded me of someone, thanks.
Thanks, Lurkinanloomin. Knives in the drawer, who do you see as a viable candidate who can haul the left-leaning trend back toward the center? And, praise God, in a rightward direction ???
Would Walker/Cruz work for you?
Cruz/Walker?
Electability ?
Realistically, electability is important in order to drag the left-leaning electorate back toward the center == for starers.
I know that we at FR are conservative zealots. I’ve been here for more than 20 years and totally agree with consecrative values. BUT I have no illusions that we can win, or even influence people, by being RIGHT. We can only win incrementally. One step at a time.
What’s the next step?
Looks like Jebbie is getting a single digit from the voters.
Pray America is waking
Cruz is the most consistent conservative running. I trust him to pick his own running mate.
Since Walker has come around on the invasion/cheap labor importation issue, I could vote for him.
First priority is for every Congressional district to do what mine did and ditch their weasel RINO if they have one. We ejected the weasel Cantor before he could betray us on amnesty this past summer.
Second is for the states that have Democrats in R jersey Senators to primary them out. Red states should not be electing the likes of McCain, Flake, Grahamnesty, Alexander, Corker, Cornyn, Cochran, McConnell, etc.
The RNC knows that Rubio will play ball with them and will be obedient to the progressive masters when needed. The democrats also know that Rubio will reach across the aisle and bow to the democrats.
Jebbie, being the Clintons’ ethical and integrity laundry man, needs to flushed out of the race ASAP.
And when the Kraut was writing speeches for Mondale it was for the purpose of defeating Ronald Reagan in his bid for a second term.
That Krauthammer gets hailed as a great conservative tells me something about his fan club.
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