First, knock out the joke candidates who truly have no chance at POTUS or Veep, “The Donald” Trump, Bobby Ehrlich, Petey “I hate Ted” King, Linda Graham, and “Who was” Georgie Pataki. Some of these guys may not even run, but would just love to have their 15 minutes of face time. This gets us to 12!
Second, have tough conversations with the Ricks, “Oops” Perry and “Can’t win your home state” Santorum. They had their chance last time, so it’s time for them to find another calling in life! Now we are at 10!
This group of 10 might be manageable and leaves a true RINO group of Bush, the Huckster, Kasick, and Christie; semi-RINOs, Jindal and Rubio; newcomers Carson and Fiorina with Paul, the Libertarian and Cruz as the only true Conservative.
“This group of 10 might be manageable and leaves a true RINO group of Bush, the Huckster, Kasick, and Christie; semi-RINOs, Jindal and Rubio; newcomers Carson and Fiorina with Paul, the Libertarian and Cruz as the only true Conservative.”.........
A well-thought out posting - except that you did not include Scott Walker. He is my first choice and is ahead in some of the polls. You will need to eliminate one more candidate in order to put in Scott Walker.
How about starting with a tag-team event between Conservatives and CINOs? Eliminate the pretenders as a group and then move on to candidate selection.