I’m prepared to be flamed for this comment, but IMO Hillary would win over any GOP candidate in the Bush/Romney/Christie dogpile. Not that she’s any sort of candidate, but she probably has 35% guaranteed mindless support of the electorate which could be ramped up with the total media obsequiousness that would cover her and against the aforementioned gaggle of losers, I think she would take it.
No risk of flames here. That’s just rational opinion. Fact is, for anyone from the GOP to win, it’s going to be very, very hard just because of the way the electoral math breaks down.
The GOP will have to flip a few states, or run the table of ALL toss up states (7, 8, or 9 of them as it were) to get to 270. One slip up and the Dems will win something like 272 to 266.
I would say any GOP candidate simply because of identity politics. Over 50% of the electorate is female, and even my normally conservative sisters have got their Hillary yard signs and bumper stickers displayed already. Their rationale, as wrong as it may be, is that after 227 or so years, it is a woman's turn.