Posted on 01/26/2015 10:20:55 AM PST by MacNaughton
At the unofficial start of the 2016 GOP presidential campaign here in Iowa, the race is already too sprawling ... Here are a dozen keys to understand what is happening now:
1. The candidates who have run before — Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum — all think they can get their teams back together for another race. They can't.
2. Chris Christie is in better shape than you think.
3. Foreign policy has become as important as social issues, and that means people will listen to John Bolton.
4. Romney loyalists are deeply ambivalent about another run.
5. The Bush family network isn't as strong as some believe.
6. Scott Walker doesn't have to be great on the stump to do well.
7. Rick Santorum is in very bad shape.
8. Many insiders do not expect Marco Rubio to run, and if he does, they think he's doomed.
9. Rick Perry will get another chance, but it will be a very narrow one.
10. Rand Paul still has to deal with the sins of his father, or at least of his father's supporters.
11. Ben Carson is a big draw, but is viewed with disdain by political professionals.
12. You know what Bobby Jindal said about Muslim "no-go zones" in Europe, a statement that resulted in Jindal being criticized and mocked by mainstream commentators? It turns out many social conservatives in Iowa really liked it. To them, Jindal was warning about the danger of enclaves of unassimilated Muslim populations in an age of Islamic radicalism, a problem they fear could be in store for the United States. Jindal, who is himself the model of an assimilated American from an immigrant family, not only did not suffer from his remarks but instead benefited from them.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Only because the New Hampshire is before Super Tuesday and he may win that.
“70 year old hag”
Good one!
Reference please.
Cruz took Iowa by storm Saturday and Byron wet himself. Next Rove will be all over Fox News telling us it never happened.
Hag? You mean the overwhelming choice of the American masses!
Fox seems to be trying to get John Kasich to get into the race.
Fox seems to be trying to get John Kasich to get into the race.
Here, and thre are many others:
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/22/gov-walker-wants-to-open-the-door-to-immigrants/
What about this one entitled “Scott Walker: I’m not for amnesty, I’m for making legal immigration easier?”
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