Ready for some real hope and change or: Or, How the GOP will squander an election

Jewish World Review ^ | November 18, 2013 | Star Parker

[Idaho_Cowboy]

If the last two presidential elections tell us anything, it's that Republicans don't succeed with candidates who lack clear vision and conviction consistent with the party's conservative platform.

Given this, I understand why Democrats think that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie should be a leading contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. But why would any Republican see a typical political operative like Christie as presidential material?

With the information we have in front of us today, there is every reason to believe that 2016 will be a year of opportunity for Republicans to run a serious and exciting reform-minded candidate — a candidate who is ready and able to provide the kind of leadership it will take to breathe life back into our faltering nation.

The Obama presidency is exuding incompetence and unraveling on all fronts.

Each day we are greeted with new news about the crashing of the ill-conceived and misguided Affordable Care Act — Obamacare.

Looking at current economic realities at home and national security realities abroad, little good news appears evident, and there isn't much reason to expect any big positive surprises.

The American public is waking up to the fact that they elected, now twice, a president who is long on rhetoric and way short on delivery, and they are getting tired of it.

As things continue in this vein, by 2016 the American people will be ready for some real hope and change. The door will be open for a Republican candidate who is ready to take on the real challenges facing us. Across-the-board reform of entitlements, real tax reform, real cuts in superfluous government spending and reassertion of a strong and clear America in the international arena

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Very good reasoning on the problems of pre-selecting Chris Christie as the "front runner".

[erkelly]

I like the article too, but frankly, although I could not hold my nose and vote for Romney, I could vote for Christie if he is the nominee.

On the bright side, you Freepers who mourn Romney's loss, if Romney had been elected, he and the GOP would be blamed for this entire obamacare mess!

[matthew fuller]

"The door will be open for a Republican candidate who is ready to take on the real challenges facing us."

The GOPe will undoubtedly get that door slammed and nailed shut in a New Jersey minute.

[Don Corleone]

"The door will be open for a Republican candidate who is ready to take on the real challenges facing us."

Sarah..Sarah..Sarah...!!

[CatOwner]

"I like the article too, but frankly, although I could not hold my nose and vote for Romney, I could vote for Christie if he is the nominee."

Yikes!!! Truly sad you think that much of Christie. The mindset of some Freepers is shocking sometimes.

[43north]

Romney’s team started to vet the big boy for the VP spot and stopped when they began uncovering a whole lot of unsavory activities in his past.

No wonder the dims and rinos are all in for him - he’s a thoroughly crooked politico just like they are. The dims would have a field day “exposing” all of that.