Posted on 06/09/2015 7:49:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have nothing against vetting prospective Republican candidates running for President in 2016.
Still, I find myself agreeing more with the sentiments of those commentators who say: “The more the merrier.” Nor do I believe that the Republican Party presidential prospectus has not turned into a clown car. Granted, I have publicly endorsed Scott Walker, already a compelling front runner without announcing his candidacy. He can ride a hog and tie up the pork in Wisconsin without blinking, who defeated public sector unions, expanded school choice, cut taxes, enacted Voter ID, passed right-to-work, and is boning up on foreign policy. Yet, Walker aside, I could vote for Bobby Jindal, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul without hesitating. Even Marco Rubio would be a vast improvement over anything that this country has endured for eight years.
The fact that there are so many qualified (in the true sense of the word) Republicans running for president commands a great deal of respect. Where Washington has failed, the states’ Republican governors have succeeded, and remind the nation what the Framers always knew – power belongs to the states and the people.
What a wonderful turn from 2012, where the strongest contender (Romney) was a weak frontrunner, all the way to April. Even I begged for a brokered convention, so that Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels could take the reins of the party and challenge Obama. Oh well. We got Romney, Romney-care, and five million Republicans who didn’t vote.
This time, I am not saddened at the wide, deep, and impressive bench facing the Republican primary voters in 2016. Even though I have faulted Christie, Carson, and (Jeb) Bush, even they boast considerable bonafides compared to their Democratic counterparts and predecessors.
And speaking of the Democratic Party, consider the array of clowns, losers, and misfits running for (or ruining) the Democratic Party nomination.
All old and white, bereft of ideas and wit, they have legacies of folly and failure. If you want a clown car, look no further than the Water Boys of politics, the Dems running under the shadow of Obama, his foreign morass, and his domestic agenda, completely in tatters, and teetering on collapse as life-long Democrats bolt to the GOP.
Instead of picking on why certain Republicans are running, a better to question to ask:
Why are any Democrats running at all?
Let’s start with “Weekend at Bernie” Sanders. An old codger from Vermont, an Independent in Name Only, a self-avowed socialist who wrote about illicit fantasies, he preaches “Let others live within your means,” all while owning property himself. No one better represents the old, desiccated socialism of the 1970s than Bernie Sanders. Yes, young people love him, the same way the love their grandpas or weird uncle, only to take his money away when he dies, or falls asleep. With Bernie, can anyone ever tell the difference?
Then there’s Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley. He entered the race within weeks of the Old Line State’s bruising racial flare-ups. Baltimore went up in flames, in large part from decades of liberal, Democratic policies, brought to a head by O’Malley, who turned Maryland into a progressive dystopia, from gender neutral bathrooms, to havens for illegal aliens and gun-grabbing galore. As for the Obamacare state exchange, Maryland’s was one of the first to fail. This man taxed the rain – no joke! So unpopular was O’Malley (and his bevy of levies), that voters Democratic, Independent, black and white, turned on his appointed successor Anthony Brown. Today, Republican Larry Hogan holds the Governor’s mansion in Annapolis cutting taxes, beefing up the budget, and now reaching out to black voters. Heck of a Job, there, Marty!
Who else? Oh, yeah, that governor from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee.
Wow, this guy is a gaffe a minute. “Governor Gump” to Ocean State residents, Rhode Islanders despised him so much, he had a whopping 27% approval rating before declining to run for reelection. An inconsistent political chameleon, he was appointed to the US Senate after his father’s untimely death in 1999, then won election . . .as a Republican, in his own right (even though he was one of the most left-wing members of the Senate). After one term, in which he voted against his party more than Hillary Clinton (wow, but more on Hillary in a minute), Chafee lost in 2006. Switching to liberal Independent in 2007, he won as Rhode Island governor with 33.3% + 1 of the vote. Not a commensurate mandate by any stretch.
Presiding over economic malaise in the midst of food-stamp cities, gun-grabbing failures, attacks on the state Christmas Tree, and a spate of corrupt politicians going to jail, Chafee identified the following as his political legacies: gay marriage (which never brought in the economic boom he claimed it would), rescinding E-verify (money for illegals, but no one else), and the Obamacare state exchange (which even Rhode Island Democrats are trying to get rid of).
He also wanted to legalize marijuana to fix the state’s stumbling, crumbling infrastructure: “Pot for potholes.” To echo the hilarious refrain of Rhode Island’s conservative news program “Common Sense”: “Are you kidding me?!”
Then there’s Hillary Clinton. From Benghazi to “Clinton Cash,” from the husband’s “I did not do that to that woman” to her own “What difference does it make?” Clinton is crashing rather than cashing in on her political dynasty. Iowa Democrats want someone more progressive (or regressive), she refuses to answer questions, and she cannot operate two email accounts – or is it that she cannot tell the truth, even when it doesn’t hurt her?
From the creepy uncles to the dysfunctional cousins, to the Democratic Madam who does not seem to give a damn, calling the Democratic slate of Presidential contenders “a clown car of candidates” is too kind. Perhaps a broken family, a coven of criminals. How about the best title: Unelectable?
Republicans should not rip each other up over “Why so many?” prospective GOP standard-bearer in 2016. Let’s laugh at the Democrats’ diminished denizens, and ask: “Why do they even bother?”
I think Hillary has scared off the bulk of possible candidates. If you were looking for any four-star Hillary to emerge in 2015/2016....it just isn’t going to happen. She’s weaker than in 2007/2008, older, and likely with less cash (she is heavily dependent on the Clinton Foundation this time around). I don’t understand why Warren doesn’t come out to Iowa and do a couple of speeches to gauge her position.
I think the lesser candidates on both sides are running for cabinet posts and the vp slot.
I still believe the gaggle of GOP candidates is for ONE purpose and ONE purpose only .. to take out Ted Cruz.
The large group is supposed to keep him from having large crowds or large amounts of money.
And, while Jeb is supposed to have tons of cash - no revelation yet as to how much; while Cruz has been up front and willing to say how his purse is doing.
Also, even while Jeb claims to have tons of cash - his crowds appear to be in the 50 or so range, while Cruz is exceeding 500 over and over again. Several times, people have been turned away, because the venue was not LARGE enough.
And, Cruz continues - daily - to report of the constant standing ovations Cruz receives for his stated policies. While I don’t see any reports of that happening to any of the other candidates (with the exception of Walker).
I still say; if the GOPe doesn’t select Cruz, then I’ll write his name in.
I wouldn’t be surprized they were preparing Obama to run as far back as 2000. Possibly earilier. His voting “present” and the though scrub job on his past. I suspect that the relentless attacks on G.W.B.,later Palin, were part of the overall plan.
A lot of people who positioned themselves inside the ranks, a well paid media, and bribe money and treats, when money didn’t work, possibly?
SOrt of like how it took the architects of 9-11 a decade to plan that horrific event.
I meant to add..basically they put all the eggs in one basket. Now they don’t have a successor to the petulant child emperor.
The Dems could nominate a cinder block, and it would win so long as it promised to keep the freebies a’flowin’.
They don't want one. They want a pliable GOP President in 2017, so that when all the SHTF s/he can be blamed, and the True Socialist President can be elected in 2020. People like O'Malley and Sanders are useful idiots, and Hillary! is being played. The only two things that could go wrong from this perspective would be a rock-solid conservative becoming President in 2017, or Hillary! actually winning, which would mean the media outlets having to tie themselves up into a Gordian knot to spin the SHTF as somehow being the fault of the GOP.
Give it time ... ol' Fauxchahantas is keeping her arrows in the quiver for now, waiting for the Hildabeast to stumble.
Governor O'Malley really did tax the rain, but at least he has a natural campaign theme song, if he can get permission from the Beatles:
Taxman
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'Cause I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me.
Hillary didn't plan having to go a round or two with a Republican woman - a woman that hadn't be ‘roughed up and softened' by the media.
Hillary was ready for a fight with a woman who had been beat up by the men at the New York Times... Like Palin... Palin and her family were abused by dem operatives and their butt boys in the Times. Hillary was ready for kicking someone injured... that's her style.
The Time's style too.
Hillary wanted wounded - her thugs ready to kick... She would mock the conservative with her phony ‘airs and attitude’... But that shallow ploy won't work with Carly.
The press hasn't had time to rough up Carly and dem thugs don't have enough stuff to pass out to their trolls. There desperation in the air...
Even Hillary's "sexism pity party’ tactic won't work against Carly. Laughing at traditional 'mother types' won't work. Hilly's stuck... all the manipulative game playing stuff won't work against Carly. Hillary might have to 'be real'... and that's the kiss of death for someone like Hillary.
It's actually kinda fun - - watching Hillary in all her fallen glory and bullsh*t... Carly airing each and every lie and manipulation Hillary has to offer. Then showcasing Hillary as the puffed-up airhead she's always been... Great stuff... I'm still a Walker fan - but watching Carly is pure joy.
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