Posted on 01/30/2016 8:44:14 AM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
The battle to be the Republican choice for president has been nasty, brutish and anything but short. The hope among some Republicans is that the Iowa caucuses on Monday and the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 9 will promote a candidate who can appeal to the half of their electorate that doesn‘t support the two current front-runners.
Those two, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, are equally objectionable for different reasons. Mr. Trump has neither experience in nor interest in learning about national security, defense or global trade. Even unemployment figures, which he’s pegged at 23 or 42 percent (the correct number is 5 percent) don‘t merit his attention.
From deporting Mexican immigrants and barring Muslims to slapping a 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports, Mr. Trump invents his positions as he goes along. His supporters say they don’t care. What they may not know is how deliberately he is currying their favor. At a meeting with The Times‘s editorial writers, Mr. Trump talked about the art of applause lines. "You know," he said of his events, "if it gets a little boring, if I see people starting to sort of, maybe thinking about leaving, I can sort of tell the audience, I just say, ‘We will build the wall!’ and they go nuts."
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, though a distinct underdog, is the only plausible choice for Republicans tired of the extremism and inexperience on display in this race. And Mr. Kasich is no moderate. As governor, he‘s gone after public-sector unions, fought to limit abortion rights and opposed same-sex marriage.
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I think have to put Gay’s Itch behind Jeb, even though he’d be a stronger candidate. He’s just oozing lib. “Give a gay gangbanger a hug” is the vibe I get from him.
NYslimes hasn’t supported a Republican in the GE since Ike, so they can pound sand as far as their recommendations are concerned.
The Slimes only endorse the weakest RINOs imaginable so that they’re easy pickins’ for the Democrat. Kay Sick, with his numerous scandals just waiting to be exposed, and his anti-Conservative Willardesque creep factor, would make him dogmeat in the general. That’s why he gets Pinchie’s stamp of approval.
If Trump or Cruz were truly as “awful/divisive”, et al, candidates the establishment and ultraleft media insists that they are, they’d be the first candidates the media would be falling over to endorse against the Communist “Democrat” nominee.
It's fun to see him and Jeb! competing for that precious 1% of GOP voters and dividing the party bigwigs though. Almost all the prominent Republican officials in Illinois have endorsed either Jeb! or Kasich, with perhaps only a handful of Rubio supporters.
Kasich got few places to go after a success in NH. if he gets that one.
March 1: Mass, VT, Minn
and
March 15 Illinois.
he could linger a while, but Rubio will prob consolidate the establishment vote.
Huntsman is worse, yes.
Kasich is acquitting himself very poorly though, his record in Congress was not bad at all. Since he’s become Governor and now running for POTUS, my opinion of him has declined.
Supposedly he’s a raging jerk in private, ala McCain.
Trump V. Kaisch (or Jeb) is my nightmare.
Trump is nothing if not divisive. He’s badly divided this site if you haven’t noticed, especially with operation birther.
I meant divisive in a general election. If he defeats Cruz by less-than-gentlemanly means (*cough*), he knows even the most die-hard Cruz supporters would not vote for the Democrat in the general.
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