Republicans Expect Long, Expensive Presidential Battle - no heir apparent

Houston Mirror ^ | March 28, 2015 | VoA

[TomGuy]

Religious Freedom bills making state rounds

The problem with bills circulating among the states is that the FED court can nullify them by claiming they are discriminatory. That is basically how gay marriage is happening -- one FED court, one FED judge at a time.

[cripplecreek]

The system is already gamed against conservatives.

First in the nation NH needs to be first in the nation Nebraska or something.

[COBOL2Java]

Cruz was born in Canada but since his mother was an American citizen he is eligible to run for president.

Uh oh! The Cruz birthers are incoming!

[TomGuy]

The benefit of one-state-at-a-time at the outset is that it allows underfunded candidates to make their case

The problem at the outset is state debate stages with a dozen wannabes competing. They are lucky to get asked 2 to 3 questions due to time limitations. Debates really do not tell us much, except when the moderators are throwing the 'gotcha' questions.

The whole primaries debates system needs to be revamped.

[Thunder90]

Scott Walker can win. Scott !

[okie01]

First in the nation NH needs to be first in the nation Nebraska or something.

Now, that's a different solution that works...

[Lurkinanloomin]

That will have to happen early enough to deflate the GOP preferred candidate.

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That is the only way to disrupt the RNC playbook that they have used to nominate McCain and Romney and will try to use to nominate Jebster.
Conservatives uniting behind ONE candidate early.
I choose Cruz.

[Drew68]

they're scared half to death of Ted!!

The GOP establishment doesn't know what to make of a Ted Cruz candidacy. The conventional wisdom is that he doesn't have a chance in hell. And they're right. He doesn't.

Of course, the conventional wisdom in 2007 was that the junior senator from Illinois with the Muslim-sounding name running against Hillary Clinton didn't have a chance in hell either.

That's what scares them.

[yellowdoghunter]

Do you think Walker can win his home state, Wisconsin? I have no idea. I know he has won the Governorship but a Presidential race is much different.

[MeshugeMikey]

I had missed that analogy....the two senators scenario,

Obie voterd present...

Ted had a filibuster that lasted nearly an entire day

theyd better to afraid!

[TexasFreeper2009]

I would have bet a million right after 9-11 that next president after Bush’s name would not be HUSSEIN !

[Drew68]

I would have bet a million right after 9-11 that next president after Bush’s name would not be HUSSEIN !

No kidding. In 2007 I was serving in the Navy with a guy who was born in Kenya. We were talking politics and he said he really liked Barack Obama. I laughed at him and said there was no way in hell that guy would ever get elected President.

[Drew68]

Do you think Walker can win his home state, Wisconsin? I have no idea. I know he has won the Governorship but a Presidential race is much different.

The only game in town right now are the primaries and the biggest obstacle conservatives face is getting a remotely conservative candidate through an entrenched system that essentially lets blue states pick the winner.

Can Walker win Wisconsin? Who knows? Cruz will easily win Texas --if he's the nominee. But will he even win the Texas primary? Texas went for Romney last time around.

[SoConPubbie]

I don’t conclude the same. I think Cruz attracts the Libertarians on the conservative side and that might be 5-6 % while Rand Paul gets the other 9-10%. We shall see as it is a ways off.

Cruz will take a heft share of the libertarians and most of the evangelicals and those concerned about constitutional governance, securing the border and the gay marriage issue.

Rand Paul is going to fade quickly, among others.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You’re correct!

But note - the Left knows that the tide has shifted - that people are angry about Democrat overreach (their weaponization of goverment) and Americans are pushing back. They’ve already lost many state legislature and governor’s seats. Their strongholds in universities are under attack. Their union power is being disassembled. The Democratic Party is hoping a corrupt Hillary Clinton and her followers can save the presidency for them.

We shall see.

[central_va]

The MSM will stop shilling for the magic negro when he is gone. The MSM will finally start telling the public how bad things really are and the next President will get the blame.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Well... He’s done it multiple times already.

[hinckley buzzard]

...what is likely to be the longest, most expensive and perhaps most contentious Republican Party presidential battle in history.

If so it will do severe harm to the prospects for the GOP in 2016. Nothing good has come from the wars of attrition waged on the primary trail the last two cycles.

I wonder if conservatives will get smart and not bleed each other this time around. I'm not betting the farm on that happening.

[JohnBrowdie]

it’s icing on the cake if Walker could flip WI in 2016. one of the under reported stories in 2000 was the near certainly that WI was stolen from GWB. His margin of loss was less than blatantly fraudulent votes in milwaukee. but that got drowned out by the noise coming out of Florida.

[hinckley buzzard]

I would have bet a million right after 9-11 that next president after Bush’s name would not be HUSSEIN !

Same here but seven years later it happened. America was traumatized by 9/11 and this was the compelling evidence. The fact is now beyond dispute: The War on Terror is over and the terrorists won, on the first day.