Ok, here it is my unabashed description of the 2016 field..
* Mike Huckabee: Bill Clinton with a Banjo
* Chris Cristie: Bobby Bacala should not run for POTUS
* Rick Santorum: Would make a great producer for EWTN
* Jeb Bush: No more, Please.
* Ben Carson: The Huckabee of 08' for 2016
* Newt: OJNTSA ( yes the photo of they guy with his hand on his head )
* Mitt Romney: They don't sell Isuzu's here anymore Joe
* Ted Cruz: Senate Majority Leader, those words are music to my ears.
* Rand Paul: A Deadhead for POTUS?
* Marco Rubio: I could have been a contenda...
That leaves: Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Mike Pence, John Kasich, and maybe even Rick Snyder.
Pence / Walker, Walker / Pence and or Martinez would work for me.
We have to build a Conservative for Palin type ground game for our top dog soon, the E-GOP / Enemedia will be trying to kabash any Reaganite we have to check them into the boards before they get to the puck so to speak...
As my 4th grade teacher, Brian Forik, said to every class he had ever taught in his career, "Failing to prepare, is preparing to fail".
I like your list. I agree that Cruz is better suited to being something like senate majority leader.
I like Pence, Kasich, and Martinez. I don’t really know enough about Snyder. I like Perry too but I don’t believe he would be a good candidate.
You left out Paul Ryan and Bobby Jindal.
Huckabee was far worse for Arkansas as governor than Clinton, even without the banjo ... I wouldn’t vote for him for dog catcher.
“...* Ted Cruz: Senate Majority Leader, those words are music to my ears....”
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Ted Cruz as Senate Majority Leader with Hillary winning as President over the designated RINO in 2016? Strange music your ears are hearing.
LET’S ALL UNITE BEHIND TED CRUZ FOR 2016. Cruz would be a sure general election winner and would be a PRACTICING, ACTUAL constitutional conservative as President. He would also outsmart the ‘RAT/RINO coalition at every turn.