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The Five Plausible GOP Candidates (Bush, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio and Walker)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | August 11, 2015 | William A. Galston

Posted on 08/11/2015 4:41:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: stockpirate

“NB issue?”


21 posted on 08/11/2015 4:55:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wall Street Journal = Chamber of Commerce = Source of campaign cash for professional politicians.
22 posted on 08/11/2015 4:55:50 PM PDT by entropy12 (I prefer a president who says "you are fired", over professional politicians, puppets of rich donors)
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To: Diogenesis

Ben Carson is quoted saying that him and Al Sharpton are friends and get along fine. Now this is something I read today and haven’t checked out the source.


23 posted on 08/11/2015 4:56:22 PM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.and media)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
A moderate-conservative Republican ticket representing the two largest swing states would be cause for concern. In fact, Bush-Kasich would be scary

LOL!
24 posted on 08/11/2015 4:57:32 PM PDT by nhwingut (Trump-Cruz 2016 - Blow Up The GOPe)
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To: Bobby_Taxpayer

Galston..whiny lefty at the WSJ.

As a writer there, he is the worst!


25 posted on 08/11/2015 4:57:34 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Bush won the War in Iraq, Obozo lost the peace..and gave Iraq back to the Terrorists!)
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To: quantumman
He's their token liberal columnist, like Safire or Kristol or Douthat was the Times token liberal. He doesn't speak for the newspaper.
26 posted on 08/11/2015 4:57:59 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree that all five are plausible candidates, and far better than the Crone Capitalist, Uncle Bernie or Plugs.

I also think there are 12 other announced republican candidates who would be an improvement on what we have now.


27 posted on 08/11/2015 4:59:15 PM PDT by Walrus (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice - Barry Goldwater)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz — Yes! Cruz or lose!

Walker — I would vote for him if he was the nominee. He’s my firewall if Cruz doesn’t make it and some damn lower RINO (see below) is still in it.

Rubio — NO GANGS! I don’t care in you were in MS-13, Crips, Bloods or Eights. no Gangsters!

Kase-Itch — Makes me want to break out the aloe vera and calamine lotion. No thanks.

JED — No more Bushes, Clintons, Kennedy’s Jenners or Kardashians. We’ve had it with these people! Not only that JED Bush sucks. There. I’ve said it.


28 posted on 08/11/2015 4:59:45 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: stockpirate
I’m supporting Trump until he steps down

Will you support Mister Trump when (not if) he announces his third party run?

(Perot got 0 electoral votes in 92, and 0 in 96. Trump would as badly, as is his plan.)

29 posted on 08/11/2015 4:59:55 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Some say his mom was not a citizen when she have birth to him in Canada


30 posted on 08/11/2015 5:01:21 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cruz is the only one of these 5 that wouldn’t “Comprehensively Screw Americans Out Of Their Country.


31 posted on 08/11/2015 5:02:38 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Try to find a plausible journalist at the WSJ.


32 posted on 08/11/2015 5:03:16 PM PDT by proust ("Jeb Bush is a good man. He's a good governor. I respect him" -Cruz)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Let's See

Who Owns The WSJ aka the Chamber Of Crony Capitalism newsletter .

Another day and another smear by a Rupert Murdoch Paid Media assassin !

I hope his left wing boys destroy his empire in a decade .
It's looking that way .

33 posted on 08/11/2015 5:03:35 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Seaplaner

He would probably go third if Jeb is the nominee, and so what difference does it make.


34 posted on 08/11/2015 5:04:17 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: CitizenUSA
People should not underestimate the GOPe or Jeb Bush! The Republican Party has the game rigged (with open primaries) against conservatives.

Trump will do far better in open primaries than Bush. People like to compare Trump to Perot, but they forget most of Perot's support came from independents and democrats. Trump will do very well among those voters, many of whom would never vote for a GOPe candidate, especially one named Bush.

35 posted on 08/11/2015 5:05:13 PM PDT by Hugin
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To: Paine in the Neck

I agree. The only people I see toting Kasich are people in the media. most regular people I talk to don’t know him, and it’s hard to imagine him getting much greater name recognition outside the rust belt.

Walker, Bush, Cruz and Rubio all, I think, have a shot. I wouldn’t even count out Trump, frankly. I think the base is so anti establishment right now that he could pull it off.


36 posted on 08/11/2015 5:05:17 PM PDT by conservativegamer
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To: Sybeck1

Then they’re high. She was born in Delaware. Now Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal...


37 posted on 08/11/2015 5:07:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Seaplaner

“Perot got 0 electoral votes in 92, and 0 in 96. “

But everyone says he was the ultimate spoiler that got Clinton elected and re-elected!


38 posted on 08/11/2015 5:08:07 PM PDT by proust ("Jeb Bush is a good man. He's a good governor. I respect him" -Cruz)
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To: Hugin

Those primaries are a long way off, and I do think there’s a strong possibility Trump will self destruct. He does control a large part of the protest vote for the moment, but there are only so many protestors. You can imagine the moderate/centrists in blue states will rally to Jebbie just like they did for McCain and Romney.


39 posted on 08/11/2015 5:08:54 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: Seaplaner
Trump is a household name since the 1980’s and that is everything ,

He would win a third party race with Hilde beast and insert the DC GOP sock puppet ( Walker, Jebbie, Rubio, Carly) .

Trump could win big.
People are fed up.
Even my college age kids and there friends know Trump and like him.

That is why the DC elite and Media scum and KStreet are scared .

40 posted on 08/11/2015 5:09:04 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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