Posted on 02/21/2012 12:48:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Marco Rubio. If the GOP nominates him it will be a landslide victory against Obama.
Advantages: A prime candidate for the presidency, Daniel’s declined to run last year...
Good thing, too, because there was no presidential race last year...
It will not be anyone but one of the people who have devoted money, time. and energy into actually running.
A compromise would be made with those people.
Now you’ve done it....birthers inbound!!!
Btw I agree with you 100%
Daniels has already said no again yesterday. Who would want to after declining to run earlier?
All that would do is cause resentment instead of making people happy.
As if we needed any more proof that the establishment is out of touch - and we don’t - they keep floating Jeb Bush. How can they be so tone deaf? There is no way in hell anyone will accept another Bush.
Jeb is probably the best of the three, but no way we’ll ever elect another one.
You are correct, any other answer is day dreaming.
Thomas Sowell?
I’d vote for him.
For everyone who thinks a brokered convention is the conservative salvation, keep in mind that a moderate is more likely to emerge than someone seriously to the right. Just for a little historical perspective the last Republican candidate to come out of a brokered convention was Thomas Dewey in 1948. Remember his first term?
It is the same reason sports writers like to talk about, for example, the upcoming NFL draft.
But, while there will be an NFL draft, there will not be a brokered Republican convention.
It will be a woman—But Not Sarah Palin.
Rubio articulates conservative values better than any other candidate I’ve heard so far.
Sure Rubio’s record is spare but all the other self-styled conservatives running have records which paint them as hypocrites since their deeds belie their words.
Santorum and Gingrich are frauds using the conservative base merely as tools in their grab for power, and don’t give a wit about any of us or our values.
Santorum and Gingrich are frauds
. . . and add Romney to that list of frauds, of course.
This silly notion is to sow continued discord and keep people from getting behind a candidate. It is a folly and it isn’t going to happen. Notice that one of the sources was Politico today. Yeah, right.
If people can’t decide amongst the people who are actually running, there isn’t going to be a candidate imposed as the nomineee who hasn’t spent one minute doing any of the work and investing of themselves to run, that includes Jeb Bush.
Do you seriously think that is the biggest reason so many Republicasn like him? Rubio's strength is that he articulates the conservative vision and conservative values in a way that appeals to the greatest number of Americans. There hasn't been anyone in his league in that regard since Reagan.
If there was someone else equally adept at that on the national stage, he/she would be running away with the nomination.
Personally, my choice would be Daniels, especially considering the education reforms he pushed through last year, and the Right to Work legislation that passsed this year. He's got the experience and record to challenge Obama, even if he is somewhat lacking in terms of charisma.
But heck, considering our other options at this point, I'd take Rubio over the current contenders in a heartbeat.
Fax me some of whatever you’re smoking. I worked for President Reagan, so don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
Chris Christie - Decent on economic issues, awful on social issues, basically a fat Mitt Romney.
John McCain - No! No and h*ll NO! I would not vote for him even if my vote decided the election. THAT is how much I hate him.
Jeb Bush - I agree with Jesse Jackson for once, Stay out da Bushes. We don't need a political dynasty in this country, especially one made of RINO's.
Sarah Palin - Would vote for her in a heartbeat, but don't think she wants it.
Bobby Jindal - I'd vote for him, although he doesn't really, as Chris Matthews put it, send a tingle up my leg.
John Thune: - Really don't know enough about him to say...
Mitch Daniels - Another establishment RINO, I'll pass.
I get your point, but his ethnic group is....(drum roll)...white, as in caucasian.
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