Deafest?....Nope, I'm a realist. The simple fact is that the selection for a republican presidential candidate is weak at best. As a 35 year republican turned independent (2004) I worked to elect republicans. My 12 year political career included 2 terms in the NH House (Yes, there were real conservatives back then). I understand the game of politics. What is being offered right now is a group of RINOs and a few conservatives without the necessary name recognization to carry the republican party to a presidential victory. It's far more important to retake the House and Senate than the presidency.
There is a very thin line between realism and defeatism. You are for sure a defeatist. How can you in 20 month before the election declare that the democrats are going to win the White House? Who is going to win the White House? Hillary Clinton? She is the meanest, rudest, nastiest, most arrogant candidate to ever run. Before the voters will know anything about her left wing lunatic and socialist politics, they will quickly realize that she is too mean, too nasty, too arrogant to be President. Her very nasty and very annoying voice and her scary wide open mean eyes will turn the majority of voters away from her at an early stage of the campaign. She and the liberal media cannot do anything to hide this or prevent it. Who else? Barak Obama? Just get real.
It is good to have but nothing compare to have the Presidency. The President has more power two third of Congress on domestic issues and almost has all the power on foreign policy and war. Look at the traitors and defeatists in the democrat party, they control Congress but they are too weak and too impotent fortunately to even pass a defeatist “non binding” resolution in the Senate.