So did Cruz. Were Jindal's parents American citizens when he was born? Were Rubio's?
Posted on 08/11/2015 4:41:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After their first presidential debates, it is time for Republicans to get serious. Donald Trump won’t be their nominee. Neither will Ben Carson. Nor will any of the men in the 5 p.m. undercard event last week. Despite Carly Fiorina’s strong performance, it is hard to believe that the GOP would turn to someone who was fired as Hewlett-Packard ’s CEO in 2005 after a tenure charitably described as controversial, and whose only run for elective office resulted in a landslide loss in 2010 to Sen. Barbara Boxer in California.
There are only five candidates with a plausible path to the Republican nomination: two sitting senators ( Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz), two sitting governors ( Scott Walker and John Kasich), and a former governor ( Jeb Bush). They represent a choice among very different persons, but also—and more fundamentally—between competing strategies for the future of the Republican Party.
First, the candidates as individuals. Ted Cruz is running as the tea party’s Mr. Conservative—aggressively antigovernment except for national defense, with an explicit appeal to Christian social conservatives. John Kasich is this generation’s compassionate conservative, who cites his faith as justification for expanding Medicaid and extending “unconditional love” to gays and lesbians. Scott Walker is the fighting conservative who fires supporters’ hopes that he will stick it to the liberals in Washington, as he did to public-sector unions in Wisconsin....
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Jindal at least showed his birth certificate.
If ¡Yeb! is the nominee for the GOP?
Why would you waste your vote on ¡Yeb!?
Hillary vs ¡Yeb! vs Trump, Trump wins.
That Jeb is anywhere near the top is an ironical artifact of Democrat Trump's stealing conservative votes from the more conservative GOPers.
(That and name recog, but that is temporary.)
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Perot was a spoiler, because #1 he had no real chance to win, and #2 he took more votes from the right than the left. Trump would likely do the same although he may be slightly more palatable to Democrats.
Regardless, if Jeb and Hillary are the two candidates, I don’t care if Trump goes third party. In fact, I’d vote for him. On the other hand, I much rather prefer a Cruz or Walker as our nominee.
So did Cruz. Were Jindal's parents American citizens when he was born? Were Rubio's?
Some say Sasquatch is real.
Note to WSJ Editor:
You should pay more attention to your copy. In several places in this article you misspelled TRUMP. There is no K in TRUMP and it is not spelled KASICH.
Don't you see, my good FRiend, that Trump will get what Perot got, ZERO electoral votes?
The (alleged) Trump primary candidacy takes conservative (like you and me) votes from the likes of Cruz (my current fave).
The (alleged) Trump primary candidacy favors a GOP nom of ...
¡Yeb! .
What irrelevant BS to leave out Trump. Until he chooses otherwise, Trump is the odds on favorite to win the nomination and presidency.
Gee, WSJ, you wouldn’t be biased would you?
I mean, you’ve been open borders as long as I can remember and, like McCain, you’ve never seen a war you didn’t push for. You’re as globalist as anyone else in the Chamber.
Guess that’s why Donald Trump is not a viable candidate in your ‘expert opinion’.
Yet another reason my money goes to Investors Business Daily.
Jindal was an anchor baby.
That isn’t the same thing as natural born, now is it?
Cruz, yeah, but...who ‘n’ hell are these other suits?
Me, I’d like to see one of two things: Cruz takes some tips on bareknuckle speaking from Trump and there comes to be a Cruz/-other- ticket that’s got some fire at the top, OR Cruz pulls Trump into a Cruz/Trump ticket that has political clarity at the helm, and a Number Two loaded for bear.
The office of Veep isn’t worth a bucket of warm piss; Biden hasn’t done much to it in eight years, so it can’t be a bad place to put a guy like Trump.
With a clear-thinking guy at the top who’s got his head on straight, it’d be great to have a VP attack dog like Trump to send pounding through the halls of Washington Bureaucracy for the next eight years shotgunning to death whatever’s left of Obama’s legacy.
Perceptive. That will be the battleground that represents Jeb's citadel: Blue states, with open primaries and winner-take-all scoring.
New Yorks, New Jersey, Illinois and California, etc. will be Jeb's for the asking.
It's a fair point, my FRiend. However, please consider that if Mister Trump has planned to go third party all along, then he knows (and IIRC) that there are lead times to consider (logistics, and all that). Thus, I suspect that Mister Trump will manufacture an excuse to go rogue, third party, before the GOP convention.
I think it was a natural birth. ???
So is NH ,
Mass invaded and won.
Now you’re going to play the stupid card? After attacking Cruz for months? Okay.
I think I heard him promise not to run 3rd party if he wins the GOP nomination. What more do you want? What more can you ask for?
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