Posted on 06/13/2015 2:17:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Charlie Cook muses on political matters, people tend to pay attention. Cook, an analyst for the National Journal and a frequent commentator on TV newscasts, is busy these days handicapping the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. And like most everyone else, he's not yet sure who will get the GOP nod — but he's willing to quantify the chances of certain candidates as things currently stand.
As we see HERE in his latest column, Cook sees Jeb Bush losing ground:
Bush could still be the Republican nominee, but I would put his chances no higher than 25 percent about the same as two other relatively establishment candidates (though many would quibble with that characterization), Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. We'll have to wait and see whether another quasi-establishment candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, can break through the morass of other candidates into contention as well; the former House Budget Committee chair has arguably the strongest credentials of any contender in either party, though his campaign is off to a relatively late start. But when you add it all up, there's a pretty decent chance "no less than 25 percent, I'd say" that Republicans will opt this time for a strongly anti-establishment candidate, whether it is in the person of Sens. Ted Cruz or Rand Paul or (possibly but less likely) former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. That means the odds of Republicans doing something outside the box in 2016 are extraordinarily high.
Hillary and Jeb want to crush you like a bug. Do you need a link?
On gloBULLism and immigration there is not much difference between Cruz and Hitlery and Bush.
I just described Rand Paul as a renegade. How does that make me a Paulista?
ARE YOU HIGHER THAN A KITE?!
No, the sum of your posts make you a Randtard. It is what it is.
Cruz is in the back pocket of the gloBULLists when it comes to legel immigration. It isn’t just illegal immigration that is killing us. Plus I do not trust him on the border either, he just isn’t a passionate guy. Very low key. this is is worst characteristic. I do not think he is serous about any of this.
Does that mean I get the money back that I donated to Ted Cruz’s campaign?
Opinions are like @$$holes, everybody has one.
I could easily see Boner and McDonald supporting the Dem nominee.
That would be between you and the Cruz campaign, I would suspect.
Well, I hope it’s not Rand Paul, who’s about as close to a leftist Dem as you can get. Full circle...the extremes meet.
I never thought Bush had a chance. He was a good Florida governor during a good time, but he is like his brother W: weak when it comes to confronting Dems.
Rubio, I like for his excellent speaking ability and his attractive personality, but he’s too weak to deal with the left as well.
Cruz - I think I should like him more, but he strikes me as a big talker to the right but very evasive, a little ineffective, and he’s not an attractive person, for some reason. I myself do not even know why.
I hope we get the second tier out and see how they are.
I suppose Charlie needs his meal ticket.
Anyone “analyzing” who the primary candidates will be nine months from now has gotta be reaching.
Got to admit he’s got Jebbie nailed.
Ted Cruz looks a bit less like a renegade after this week’s TPA fight. I am very disappointed in him, and much less enthusiastic about his campaign.
I would propose Madame la Guillotine as the most effective
Then don’t vote for him. That was simple, wasn’t it?
Me too, I’m pining for Mike Huckabee to blow smoke up my @$$ and tell me how he’s going to jail all the queers, put women back in the kitchen and cure my diabetes.
Good old Mike. I believe he’s making a repeat appearance...
I don’t think they’ve reached the Guillotine level yet. There’s probably a less messy way to sort out our candidates.
As someone said on another thread we need Romanian Term Limits.....
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