Hey, if all else fails, Jeb Bush is primed and waiting. Jeb can fix it!
Maybe I can replace him.
Tony Buzbee, soon to be mayor of Houston.
At this point I’d say just about anyone.
President Trump should NOT leave.
How many Americans are ready, with powder dry,
to replace the criminal-terrorist-globalists
who have worked for 2+ years to take out
the ELECTED President?
Alex, I’ll take 200 million.
> who could be Trump II? <
He’s not perfect (who is?), but I would suggest Rand Paul.
Haley - NO. She is a snake. Remember the Confederate statue and flag issue?
Cotton - NO. Philosophically correct, he hasn’t got the charisma or personality
Cruz - NO. He barely beat that freak Beto
and has the personality of nails on a blackboard.
Trump Jr. is our best bet. Intelligence, personality and political philosophy ate perfect. Plus the.money.
As for the others, you can’t beat somebody with nobody and Republican dark horses always loose.
No one could.
And everyone here knows it.
Not some talkshow host. Not some pay by the word Op-Ed writer, not some favorite congressman that you THINK is a real badass, not some former military guy or some really nice person that cant take the political buzzsaw.
That is why for years we got Bushes, Dole, Romney, and Room-Temp McCain.
Trump exposed American conservatism as a bunch of people that like to be virtuous rather than win, who rather bask in past touchdowns than advance the ball one yard today, and he had to drag their sorry rears over the finish line.
That is the sad truth.
None of the suggestions excite me. Ted Cruz is a Canadian.
Rand Paul seems to be the anti establishment guy.
My personal take is that it all pretty much collapses after Trump. I see him as sort of the very last kicking of the can down the road. After Trump, a normal politician simply will not do.
And no, I’m not running. Not worth it.
If Trump does not do it, it will not be done at all!
Ask the military intelligence guys who their four other prospects were besides Donald Trump.
There shall come a day when somebody else succeeds Donald J. Trump in the office of the Presidency of the United States of America. It is difficult to picture what the defining characteristics of that successor shall be.
Would it be a continuation of the lofty ideals and prodigious accomplishments of Team Trump? Or would a repudiation of much of that legacy be first order of business?
We got Barack Obama because George W. Bush would not fight for an agenda based on the same principles that Trump applied, to “make America great again”, and unused, those principles were tossed aside, an airy dismissal of the gravity of the situation. We kept Barack Obama for two terms because, again, there was no gumption for taking the fight TO the public, by either John McCain, designated loser, or by Mitt Romney, another designated loser.
We dodged a bullet in 2016 only because of the really aggressive campaign waged by Team Trump, which prevented the nomination of Jeb Bush, another designated loser, and election by acclamation of the truly feeble candidacy of Herself, who only expected the coronation as her divine right as inheritor of the mantle.
Another really aggressive campaign, with a person of truly great drive and intellect, seems to be receding into the background, as there is no honest successor in the wings, much as Ronald Reagan was succeeded by a person of far less charisma and strong guiding principles. Not to knock George H.W. Bush, but he was an administrator, much better suited to appointive office than elective office.
Now Mike Pence is a fine and upstanding man, and it would be difficult in the extreme to fault him in any way, but again, none of the fire in the belly that makes for really brilliant leadership over the long term.
Now we may yet be surprised by Vice President Pence, as there may be a smoldering ember that could take flame as the situation arises. But it has not yet been fanned up.
And if it is not, who next? Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio come to mind, but they each come with some considerable baggage, and honestly, there are few others with high enough profiles to be considered at this early date.
A ham sandwich.
Who's next? I'd lean to Rand Paul, because he's a legit outsider and sincerely on the side of smaller government. But he's going to have to be less accommodating and more ready to fight like a pit bull. Cruz and Hailey will do in a pinch.
Trump Jr.? Ugh. Throw him in the pile with Jeb, Michele, Hillary, Chelsea, Drooly Kennedy, every other Kennedy, Andy Cuomo, everybody who rode a relative's coattails to the top. Ha! I guess you could say the same about Rand Paul, except that he's more formidable than the namesake that brought him to the show.
None of the above, Kurt.
Pretty much everyone on the list is terrible. Crenshaw’s an unknown and will probably stay that way (perhaps through no fault of his own), Nimrata Haley is GOP establishment to the core - basically a female McCain, Cotton and Cruz are right on the issues but have the charisma of a wet noodle and a lizard, respectively (Cruz could barely beat a flaming liberal in deep-red Texas, which tells you a lot about his electability elsewhere), and as for Trump Jr, that’s the worst choice of all (well, at least he isn’t advocating Ivanka) - if I wanted political dynasties, I’d move to the UK or some other nation with a monarch.
Doesn’t matter. Any Republican would be seen as a homophobic racist who hates women. If Jeb Bush was President, the Democrats would be doing the same thing to him. This wasn’t specifically geared towards Trump.
AD - After Donald.