Posted on 12/08/2014 8:12:54 AM PST by Servant of the Cross
It’s crystal clear that Hillary Clinton has a glass jaw and is poised to be knocked out in 2016. With Barack Obama and his legacy of failure weighing her down, Hillary must cobble together a coalition by recovering the normal Americans who used to help Democrats win while at the same time satisfying the freak show that is the Democrat base.
But she'll still be the face of the party of idiots who block you on the freeways, of morons who burn stores, of faceless Obamacare bureaucrats raising premiums, and of Goldman Sachs. Yeah, Wall Street crony capitalists pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for her keen insights.
Hillary is a loser and the Democrats know it. So the pygmy vultures are circling. James Webb is sizing up his chances (which are zero). For some reason, Martin O'Malley of Maryland thinks he's a viable candidate. Elizabeth Warren is pretending that she's not thinking of jumping in. There's your Democrat diversity: All kinds of rich white people, from faux populists to failed governors to fake Indians.
So with the GOP facing this crew of future footnotes, why are we toying with potential nominees whose only qualification appears to be the ability to implode?
The 2016 election isn't just an opportunity to win the presidency. We need to save our country and our Constitution from the Chablis-swilling liberal elitists. So it's time to be serious, and by “serious,” I mean we will have to tell people who we like – and some we don’t – that, "Hey, you're not going to win, so get out of the way."
People like Dr. Ben Carson. Hey, Dr. Carson is a great guy with a powerful message who has no business running for president in 2016. He's never been elected to anything. He's never run anything besides a hospital. If I need brain surgery on my children, he’s the man. If I need someone who knows how to lead the world’s biggest military, outmaneuver an entrenched Washington bureaucracy, and ruthlessly crush progressivism, not so much.
Plus, because he’s inexperienced, he’s a gaffe machine. Go win a Senate race in Maryland, Doc. Then win the governorship. Then let's talk.
Oh look, Carly Fiorina is considering running. I guess she can't resist the groundswell of support from the four people on planet earth who know who she is – yet another zillioniare dilettante who lost a big California race. There's her political resume. One race, which she lost. Does she even live in California anymore? Please, no more Richie Rich GOP vanity candidacies, okay?
And then there's Mike Huckabee. Talk about playing into stereotypes. Sorry, the face of the Republican Party in 2016 probably doesn't need to be an older, hefty, white preacher from Arkansas. On the upside, our stereotype is a minister; for the Democrats, it’s the Occupy guy who choked a grumpy on a NYPD cruiser.
Rick Santorum wants to run again. Apparently he hasn't lost often enough. The last time he won an election was, I think, 2000. Now, losing can help you grow, but there's no evidence Santorum has done anything to change his mind (or anyone else’s) about any of the positions that have made him lose consistently for the last decade and a half.
Then there’s Jeb. Who on earth who isn't a Bush wants Jeb to run for president, much less actually be president? I could maybe get used to a guy being president whose name is “Jeb,” but not one who embraces Common Core, loves amnesty, and gives awards to Hillary Clinton. Go ahead and read how Jeb slobbered over her while giving Hillary a freaking medal for her sterling performance as Secretary of State. What next – a lifetime achievement Oscar for that goofy kid in The Phantom Menace? It should make for some interesting debates. She’ll say she’s awesome, and he’ll argue that no, she’s merely great.
If you like the sound of “President Hillary Clinton,” support Jeb or any of the delusional people I just mentioned. GOP establishment types, you’ve been warned. Want to get a hundred-plus retweets/favorites on Twitter? Diss Jeb. I usually can’t stand people who mutter about not supporting a Republican nominee because he’s not exactly who they wanted, but before I’d vote for Jeb I’d lick the floor of a Detroit bus station restroom.
Now it's fair to ask who I like in 2016. Well, the answer is “Parts of a lot of people.” I wish, like Dr. Frankenstein, I could put together the perfect candidate out of the bits and pieces of many potential nominees. I’d take the brains of a Bobby Jindal and blend them with the aggressiveness of Chris Christie. I’d take the executive acumen of Mitt Romney and put it together with the winning record of perpetual underdog Scott Walker. I’d take the understanding of the Constitution of Ted Cruz and mix it with the charisma of Marco Rubio. I’d take the Texas track record of Rick Perry and match it with the ability to win in a purple state of John Kasich. And I’d infuse my nominee with the ability of Rand Paul to reach out to new constituencies while also slipping out from under the shadows of a wacky father.
But of course you can't just choose the best qualities. The flipside of my perfect candidate would be a barely known squish who can't win an election and probably can't win his own state, who everyone who is not conservative hates and who lies about immigration while not being able to put together a coherent sentence and who embraces the welfare state but wanting to reduce our military down to just seven guys, all while devoting a lot of attention to the threat of chemtrails.
There are two people who I think can more likely than not beat Hillary. Commenters, that doesn’t mean I support them. I think Chris Christie has the aggressiveness to win and Mitt Romney has the ability to win by repeating over and over, “See, I told you so.”
I think Walker, Jindal, and Paul are good guys who I'd love to see elected, but I think it will be tough for them. I think Perry had his chance and blew it. I think Kasich would lose because he’s chosen RINOhood – there’s no place in the GOP for a Hillary Lite. I love Ted Cruz. I've seen him speak and he's greatly impressed me as a leader and a lawyer, and I'm sorry to say he has absolutely no chance of ever being president. As far as Rubio, he lied to us about immigration, and it's going to take a lot to get me to forgive. I will never forget.
What’s going to happen? Who knows? It has two years to play out. In the meantime, who is telling the likes of Jeb that they should run for president? I've got to assume it's Chuck Schumer, because he's just devious enough to do it.
Proof? Proof regarding an event that is two years away and subject to "Events, dear boy"?
No proof. But her "popularity" is a myth. She is a terrible candidate, she looks like a hag, she has undisclosed medical issues, and she smells like the past.
When the dam starts to leak, the flood will carry her away.
I think that Ted Cruz would be a great AG. President? Not so much.
I know! I know! If we win the Senate and House they will be forced to listen to us!
This is a big country with 300 million plus “legal” citizens. Surely, we can find some qualified candidates.
NO Bushs, Clintons, Kennedys or sons or daughters of any other serving politicians!!!
Time for real change.
We can win if we select the person who can appeal to the hard core right AND the middle crossovers. Lose either end and it’s a likely loss.
Considering the GOP nominate losers like McCain and Romney, I do not see why not.
This is a big country with 300 million plus “legal” citizens. Surely, we can find some qualified candidates.
NO Bushs, Clintons, Kennedys or sons or daughters of any other serving politicians!!!
Time for real change.
I’m puzzled by his lack of explanation on his Ted Cruz comments. He says Ted’s very impressive but has zero chance every of being president. I’m not real sure how being very impressive disqualifies a person for the presidency, because that’s the only information he provided.
Kasich is my governor. Is he a Rino? I saw the guy just a few weeks ago at the end of the campaign in a fairly small group in our small Ohio county. He did NOT talk politics at all. I was surprised. He actually loosened his tie a bit and talked ideas on how to pull people out of welfare and dead end jobs and make them productive again. Then he went into how to catch jobs before they started to be replaced and retrain those workers early on before they lost their job so they could just transition to a new job.
There was zero rah, rah stuff; he didn’t even mention his opponent; and he didn’t mention politics at all as far as I remember.
It was odd. I felt like I was in some seminary professor’s class again listening to a lecture by a economically concerned pastor/professor.
When it comes to RINO losers, the GOP has a deep bench. We have the next Bush in line (Jeb, apparently), Christie, Rubio, an d reruns of Romney or McCain. I’m hoping they will all run to split the liberal vote so we can finally nominate a conservative who will repeal Obamacare and deport illegals.
Funny. He hates Jeb but thinks the two most “electable” candidates are the only two worse than Jeb.
I'm willing to put down money on Cruz. If he is nominated he will win in historic amounts. The last election is proof of that. The real obstacle is getting past the corrupt portion of the GOP and , of course, the genuinely evil: RATS and their media/academic organs.
Does a bear take a bodacious Obama in the woods?
Are public schools open sewers?
Is the MSM comprised of low-IQ marshmallow majors?
If Sarah ran in the next IOWA caucus she would outdistance the Pubbie field by miles. Hillary's tighty whiteys would cram into a bunch!
They are to the Democrats what the Washington Generals are to the Harlem Globetrotters. They come onto the court and are expected to lose, and get paid handsomely by the franchise to do it.
I mean really— why shouldn’t a Bush— whose mother calls Bill Clinton like one of her “sons” (even though he is without a doubt a serial rapist, probably dying of tertiary syphilis from most expert diagnosticians view, and a marxist himself with his dyke wife in a “partnership” classic of the Comintern spy playbook, who sold out our US secrets to the Chicoms)
and whose brother George W... calls (supposedly laughingly) Hillary his “sister in law”-— why shouldn’t the designated LOSER.... go through the kabuki for the ruling class and media and.....LOSE. This is the New World Order from the grandsons of Prescott Bush (investment banker- Brown Brothers & Harriman— Harriman the democrat who sold out our troops in Vietnam). It all fits, this “ruling class” that has left out generations of real Americans.
So yes, Jeb is next to lose. Lord help us. And please... no Romneycare from the elite (cause that is what HE was for).
“I love Ted Cruz. I’ve seen him speak and he’s greatly impressed me as a leader and a lawyer, and I’m sorry to say he has absolutely no chance of ever being president.”
Cruz is clearly the front-runner and only solid conservative with a shot at this point. I think his chanches of being the next president are higher than anyone else right now.
The biggest threat to his campaign are not Democrats like Hillary. Rather, the threats come from the Rino’s in the GOP that would actually prefer Hillary or any other Liberal over Cruz.
> but before I’d vote for Jeb I’d lick the floor of a Detroit bus station restroom.
Well put.
Never underestimate the ability of the Republican Party to shoot itself in the foot...multiple times.
I am not supporting Jeb as a candidate. BUT let me say this in his defense: He is sooooo much more qualified to be President than EITHER Hillary, or his father OR his brother.
Jeb COMPLETED two terms as the governor of a large state with diverse populations. He knows how to govern as an executive.
Hillary does not.
His father had lots of government experience, but not a lot as an executive and NONE as a governor.
His brother had experience as a governor, but only one term, and Texas governors are not necessarily “strong” ones compared to the legislative branch.
Jeb may be wrong on ISSUES, but he is more qualified than Hillary to run the executive branch. That fact shouldn’t even be questioned.
The Republicans will nominate someone recommended to them as “reasonable” and “moderate” by the Democratic National Committee and The New York Times, who - of course - have the best interests of the Republican Party in mind.
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