Posted on 09/23/2015 5:15:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I have preferences.
In the present field of 15, Rubio comes in fourth in my preferences. Rubio and Huckabee lose points for an inconsistent position on immigration. So did Walker, but his solid accomplishments made up for it.
In the present field of 15, only four are worse than Romney (Kasich, Christie, Pataki and Bush), so in general I am pleased with who we can choose from this cycle.
IMHO, Cruz is a statesman and a leader.
Anti information voters are the ones who simply refuse to accept that Trump won’t trash the Iran Nuke deal, Supports Obama’s opening of Cuba, supports renewable fuel mandate, ethanol subsidies, thinks Obamacare isn’t socialist enough......
Yeah, but adding 0% to 5% is still just 5%.
Were you not paying attention when he conspired against the citizens with Durbi, Schumer and the rest of the Gang of Eight?
He is an amnesty pimp, nothing else to consider.
Rubberio showed us how flexible he is when he schemed with Schumer against the citizens.
Everyone knows Cincinnatus' wife's name was Racilia.
“I heard the Brett Bair interviw of Rubio last night, and Rubio was terrific. I still have questions about him, however, but what I saw last night was pretty good.”
I saw the interview too, and he speaks well, is polished and definitely knows what he’s talking about with foreign policy. But when Bair asked him about defunding P.P., he said we definitely should, but then said something to the effect that it was too late to do anything about because “our leadership did not lay the groundwork for this fight early on, so now we will be the ones blamed for a shutdown” — not an exact quote, but words to that effect. That tells you all you need to know about his willingness to stand up to the elites in both parties and fight for something he truly believes in. He had just got done saying how defunding P.P. was hugely important because it was a “human rights” issue, but then said it was too late to do anything about it this year (even though the shutdown fight hasn’t really even started yet) and we would have to wait until we have a new POTUS.
And referring to everyone who doesn't support your candidate as a "low information voter" is ineffective and indicative of a weak mind.
Walker is the only gov who has done that. That SHOWS me more than any boasts made by Trump or the repeated, anti-Walker Democrat talking points, ever will.
“You and Ed Schultz [and Richard Trumka] spew the same anti-Walker sentiments.”
Not even close.
I “spewed” nothing, just recounted his much publicized back and forth regarding immigration. Am I allowed to merely state a fact?
I don’t have anti-Walker sentiments much at all, nor pro-Walker sentiments. He was never in the running after he announced he was in the running.
Welcome back, CW. As a Patrick Buchanan, Alan Keyes, Rick Santorum supporter, I understand the pain of tilting at windmills and having the windmills win. But it’s better to aim for the stars and hit a stump than to aim for a stump and hit the ground.
FWIW, I heard the Brett Bair interviw of Rubio last night, and Rubio was terrific.
His answers were also well scripted an delivered in machine gun fashion as if it was off the stump...another politician. A smart one, but still a politician. Color me tainted, but I just don’t trust him or the others any longer. That answer about not having enough votes pretty much did it for me.
I agree. Rubio would be a disaster. He apparently has many skeletons in his closet - the media would drag them all out during the election. His amnesty views are suicidal for this country.
I agree. Rubio would be a disaster. He apparently has many skeletons in his closet - the media would drag them all out during the election. His amnesty views are suicidal for this country.
You have been very fond of invoking Walker’s 2011 action in the past about revoking in-state tuition over so many posts I can’t count.
Yet little is ever said about this except [below] to say he “changed his mind” in 2014 or 2015 about it.
The answer about “some sort of amnesty” was pretty clear here to me.
This “spew” is from Walker’s campaign manager:
“The problems snowballed, all self-inflicted. “The week after the debate, our events fell a little bit flat,” Wiley said. “And so then we roll into the Iowa State Fair, and the ‘birthright citizenship’ [gaffe] came up. And that was another one where the donors were like, ‘What’s going on over there?’”
“There are no amnesty candidates on the Right.”
Can you give me a name?
“I heard the Brett Bair interviw of Rubio last night, and Rubio was terrific. I still have questions about him, however, but what I saw last night was pretty good.”
I saw the interview too, and he speaks well, is polished and definitely knows what he’s talking about with foreign policy. But when Bair asked him about defunding P.P., he said we definitely should, but then said something to the effect that it was too late to do anything about because “our leadership did not lay the groundwork for this fight early on, so now we will be the ones blamed for a shutdown” — not an exact quote, but words to that effect. That tells you all you need to know about his willingness to stand up to the elites in both parties and fight for something he truly believes in. He had just got done saying how defunding P.P. was hugely important because it was a “human rights” issue, but then said it was too late to do anything about it this year (even though the shutdown fight hasn’t really even started yet) and we would have to wait until we have a new POTUS.
Exactly...I just posted something similar. I flipped when I heard that. In other words, give us more, we still don’t have enough and we’re not principled enough to stand up against the Dems in Congress and the President and force a shutdown or a veto. So what if the veto is overridden? At least the took a stand. I see backbone in him...too much politician and calculation on wind direction. Enough.
DON’T see a backbone...correction.
As you know, in GA , Cruz has picked up Walkers’ previous state leaders. And it was quite a catch.
I thought Walker was the most conservative candidate who could win the primary and the election. I was flabbergasted at his disastrous campaign.
He was the candidate that needed to be most aggressively hostile to the heavily unionized national media.
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