Posted on 04/09/2014 10:55:33 AM PDT by C19fan
The prospective Republican presidential primary field can be broken down into three tiers: There’s the tea-party wing, where Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are already competing for the most conservative voters. There’s the gubernatorial wing, where lesser-known Republicans like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich will be looking to parlay their executive experience into a spot on the national stage.
But most important to the process is the establishment wing, the candidate whom party leaders and donors gravitate toward, usually early on. Despite rumors of their demise, GOP insiders have always played a critical role in Republican presidential nominations and are showing no signs of slowing down for 2016. The establishment gravitated to Mitt Romney not long after his 2008 loss, anointed George W. Bush as the front-runner well before the 2000 presidential campaign began, and shepherded Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush through conservative insurgencies. Despite the presence of social conservatives and tea parties over the years, the Republican Party has tended to rally behind a more moderate contender.
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Oops he was elected in 2010 so in four years.
A lot of that going around...beware of RINOs in Tea Party rhetoric...
“Despite the presence of social conservatives and tea parties over the years, the Republican Party has tended to rally behind a more moderate contender.”
AND LOSE......BAD
Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are nothing alike
ETD. Perfectly said.
Nah, you were right the first time. He had gone full-throttled overlord-minded sell-out within two years.
That’s true.
They went to different law schools....
He was on FoxNews this morning and still pushing amnesty for illegals.
The subject was JBush’s comment about immigrants loving their families.
Rubio is still the same amnesty pusher as he was months ago.
I don’t think too many of us understand that both Paul and Cruz are squishes on immigration. Unfortunately, every potential Republican nominee we know of today will make a deal of some sort with Democrats on immigration. There is no candidate out there yet that we can really get behind.
His relationship with Schmuck also says a lot about his judgment in selecting allies, all of it bad. Schmuck totally snoockered him and made him like it. Is such a rube really somebody we want going up against the likes of Vlad Putin. Oh, but no problem, Rube can always get the advice of that real genius, John McCain, on any really serious problems.
ca
amnesty Paul wants to dump social issues will not get my vote
Ryan
Rubio
Rand
Jeb
Christie
Huckabee
Who else?
ALL RINO Amnesty pushers.
bump
Rice - not that she would run
Rubio has not changed one iota.
He always preached amnesty to large Spanish speaking audiences, those speeches were put up on YouTube, and posters here on this forum linked to them in debates about Rubio.
Now, there were some absolute idiots who refused to digest the implications of that, and it has bitten them in the ass. Unfortunately, there also were and are a lot of posters who come to this forum while working to erase our borders.
Rubio supporters one hundred percent fell into one of those two camps.
rubio and jeb will be competing to see who can lewinski hispanic voters more.
Why is everyone glossing over Rand Paul’s being establishment?
Paul’s early campaigning seems to be focused on his establishment/rino politics.
I’m wondering if Rubio might not be better on the invasion of the US than the other RINOs. He mis-stepped badly, for sure, working with the likes of McCain and Schumer. But since then, he’s been a reliable constitutional conservative.
Please provide a link to Ted Cruz being “squishy” on immigration. Thanks!
I never said or thought Cruz was
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