[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

These are mine.
1) Ted Cruz
2) Ben Carson
3) Allen West
4) Jeb Bush
5) Scott Walker
6) Sarah Palin (just being sarcastic).

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

These are mine.
1) Ted Cruz
2) Ben Carson
3) Allen West
4) Jeb Bush
5) Scott Walker
6) Sarah Palin (just being sarcastic).

[RegulatorCountry]

Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ben Carson and Newt will make another run at it, Callista deserves her White House and the conversion’s going to waste.

[ronnie raygun]

Shemp, cartman, wimpy, foghat leghorn, mr. rogers and cookiepuss the whale from carvel

[Brandonmark]

Not in any order and not necessarily personal preferences :

Ted Cruz

Chris Christie

Jeb Bush

Rick Perry

Rand Paul

Paul Ryan

[arderkrag]

Cruz, Paul, Perry, Unrevealed RINO, Unrevealed Conservative Heartbreaker, Unrevealed Dynasty Darling

[Nuc 1.1]

1) Cruze
2) Paul
3) Bush
4) Walker
5) Romney
6) Carson

[NoLibZone]

My reduction:

We will not support the GOP 2016 candidate.

Again.

[NoLibZone]

My prediction:

We will not support the GOP 2016 candidate.

Again.

[fatnotlazy]

Ted Cruz

Don’t care about the other 5.

[onyx]

Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Jeb Bush
Nicki Haley
Ben Carson
Mitt Romney

[humblegunner]

Pick from what group?

Declared candidates?

Why, there aren’t any.

So.. you want to play fantasy football or what?

[truth_seeker]

According to the latest polls from RealClearPolitics:

Oct. 9

Bush 15
Christie 13
Huck 9
Paul 7
Ryan 6
Cruz 6

Rubio 3
Walker3
Jindal 3
Perry 2
Santorum 2

Oct. 4

Bush 15
Paul 13
Ryan 13
Christie 12
Perry 7

Cruz 6
Rubio 6
Jindal 4
Walker 3
Santorum 3

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/president/

Don’t ask me to defend the data. The two polls (or composites of polls) have 3 things in common, Bush in first, Santorum in last, and Cruz in 6th with 6%

So based on research versus my own preferences, I’d say Cruz would make the top six.

[DemforBush]

Final Six? Okay, here’s my best SWAG (Scientific Wild-Butt Guess).

1. Ted Cruz
2. Bobby Jindal
3. Mike Pence
4. Marco Rubio
5. Rand Paul
6. Jeb Bush

7. (my dark horse candidate) Lindsey Graham. He may run. If he does, he may hang around longer than any of us would like.

As for the others I can think of - Palin won’t run, Romney may but I think his ship has sailed, Newt and Herman Cain are interesting but won’t get anywhere.

[greene66]

Used to always enjoy such ponderings about upcoming elections, but nowadays, with the current state of the GOP, the thought rather nauseates me. 2012 was a horror to end all horrors.

The only two candidates I would likely get out to vote for would be Palin or Cruz.

[OneWingedShark]

likely 5 or 6 candidates

Well, considering how they like to push bad nominees down our throats:

1. Chris Christie
2. Mitt Romney
3. Rick Perry
4. Jeb Bush
5. John Boehner
   and, to reach across the isle
6. Hillary Clinton

[Slyfox]

Ted Cruz - Prez

Jeb Bush - VP (hey, there will probably be the need for some sort of compromise like for his daddy)

Ben Carson - Surgeon General extraordinaire

Allen West - Secretary of Defense extraordinaire

Scott Walker - Whatever office would pi$$ off the unions

Sarah Palin - Whatever office would pi$$ off the media

[tcrlaf]

Rand Paul
Paul Ryan
Mike Pence
Niki Haley

Darkhorse:
Kevin McCarty?

[ontap]

What....no ones excited about a possible run by.....Peter King!!! Really!!!!

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

My guesses:

On the right:

1. Ted Cruz
2. Mike Pence
3. Rick Santorum
4. Bobby Jindal

Establishment choice:

5. Jeb Bush

Backup establishment choice:

6. Rand Paul