Posted on 07/14/2015 1:00:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced Monday that he is running for President of the United States. With Walker's announcement, the Republican field of Presidential contenders is expected to include 17 major candidates by summer's end. Consensus among political insiders is that three of those 17 candidates have both a clear shot at winning the nomination and being competitive in a general election matchup with Hillary Clinton.
Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Walker have been dubbed the three candidates to watch in the coming months. Although Democrats salivate at the thought of facing an unelectable Republican like Ted Cruz or Donald Trump, they understand that Republicans are unlikely to actually nominate any of these fringe candidates. When considering the three men that they're most likely to face in a general election, it would appear that Walker would be easiest to beat.
Both Rubio and Bush both have clear advantages as candidates for the Republican Party. Bush ran the high population swing state of Florida for two terms and is clearly attempting to reach out to the crucial Latino voting bloc. As a matter of fact, a Bush victory in the general election would lead to the nation's first Latina First Lady, as Bush's wife Columba Bush is Mexican American. Marco Rubio, who also hails from the all-important swing state of Florida, is himself a Latino American, in addition to being young and telegenic....
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Who cares what the Huffington Puff wants. Jeb is the tin man, Rubio is straw man and Walker the cowardly lion. That makes Trump the all powerful Wizard of Oz. Trust me Hillary will not see this fight to the end. Her own party will drop a house on the wicked witch.
I think Cruz or Trump would mop the floor with her. Trump maybe even better do to his life experience
I think Trump will give Ted a run for the money.
You don’t become the #1 debater in North America in both categories and win 8 Supreme Court cases by being a slacker.
Yeah, sure huffpo. She wants to face a young, energetic, accomplished, unflappable, sitting Governor of a blue state.
sure she does...
Yep, they believe that the hardest to beat candidate is the one most liberal. RR won 44 states by not compromising in 1980 and 49 in 1984.
Rubio...please. He is surrounded by even worse advisors than Bush!
You said it, brother.
I agree with his politics over Trump 5-1. But he doesn’t have the vast acumen that Trump has.
Basically He’s a kid still in comparison . and I fear the whole birther issue will end his candidacy even though we have a Kenyan born _resident currently in office.
if anything like that existed it would have been made public during the recall. I think they’ve already thrown everything they have at him. not my favorite, but certainly a strong candidate.
Hillary will drink herself to death before the election.
I don't think so because on the debate stage Trump will not be able to throw out wild promises like, "I'll fine Mexico 100,000 dollars for every illegal immigrant" or "One phone call and Ford will cancel their assembly plant" without Ted Cruz working him into a corner probing for details. Trump talks and expects people to listen, not question.
Where every R candidate gets 4 total minutes, in 30 second increments.
They do it constantly with advice as to what is “best” for the party, generally to dump its base and avoid its best candidates. I don’t see this on the conservative side; its kind of like your worst enemy giving you the advice that will “save” you from your friends.
[But Bush is married to a Mexican.]
He’s a Mehican too, he’s so Mehican, when they go to bed at night he has to plead with her to get some seh.
Meanwhile, Republicans are terrified at the thought that Bernie Sanders could be the Democrat nominee.
TOUCHE.....
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