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Rubio's greatest strength: He's the anti-Hillary
The Week ^ | April 16, 2015 | Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry

Posted on 04/16/2015 8:55:47 PM PDT by entropy12

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To: Din Maker

Walker/Martinez ticket would just about destroy the Hillary/anybody ticket. That ticket has everything.
A governor with proven executive experience, who has
actually cut taxes, eliminated budget deficits, increased
private sector jobs, and forced government unions to pay
their fair share for health insurance. Then you have a female
governor, who is Hispanic and pro-life.

Works for me.


61 posted on 04/17/2015 1:29:46 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

Rubio is currently in 4th place on my list.
But should he win nomination, which seems unlikely,
you bet I won’t stay home on election day.


62 posted on 04/17/2015 1:31:22 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

I agree that Ted Cruz is an excellent candidate.
But even a gold plated candidate is useless if he/she
can’t connect with voters. Governor walker has shown
the ability to win in a blue state. That shows he can
connect with voters from more than one group.

I will watch closely how senator Cruz does in the
primaries. That could move him to the top of my list.


63 posted on 04/17/2015 1:35:22 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

6 initial primaries seal the fate, with 44 remaining?
Are you very young and had to study the “new” math?


64 posted on 04/17/2015 1:36:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

If you read my first post , you can see Rubio is at bottom of my list. In the unlikely event he wins nomination, you bet your bippy I will prefer him over Hillary.

With Hillary you get unrestricted abortions of 7 lb babies,
mass inflow of illegals to be given full amnesty, continuation of failed foreign policy, appointment of pro-abortion liberal judges on SCOTUS which will last for 30 more years.

I seriously hope you do not want Hillary’s agenda.


65 posted on 04/17/2015 1:40:15 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: mazda77

Not a single GOP candidate aspiring nomination in 2016 has come out and said he/she will deport every law breaking illegal immigrant. When illegals are allowed to stay, it is AMNESTY of some type. And that includes senator Cruz. There is no such thing as little bit pregnant. And there is no such thing as no amnesty unless law is enforced and every illegal deported.

If some candidate declares he/she will deport all illegals, I will immediately move them to the top of my list.


66 posted on 04/17/2015 1:45:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: Carthego delenda est

Correct. Conservatives can not win nomination unless they unite behind a single candidate after the 6th primary in South Carolina. Otherwise Jeb Bush will be our nominee.


67 posted on 04/17/2015 1:46:58 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: ObamahatesPACoal

What jobs governor Walker had? Politics and Red cross.
What jobs senator Cruz had? Politics and government job as solicitor general.
What jobs senator Paul had? Politics and Opthalmologist.
What jobs senator Rubio had? Politics as speaker of Florida house for 7 years.
What Jobs Fiorina had? No political jobs, Only private sector jobs.
What jobs Dr. Carson had? No political jobs, only job was brain surgeon of children.


68 posted on 04/17/2015 1:51:08 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: Windflier

Glad you bring up 2008 election.

Do you recall Romney VOLUNTARILY dropped out early to eliminate dividing RINO voters?

But conservatives had no such unity. Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Huckabee, Fred Thompson etc did NOT drop out voluntarily.

Same thing happened in 2012.
Romney had no one dividing RINO voters.
But conservatives stayed in race to the bitter end, unless forced to drop out due to lack of money. Santorum and Gingrich fought to the bitter end, clearing path for Romney.


69 posted on 04/17/2015 2:26:45 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Will he connect with voters and win some primaries? We will have to wait and see.


70 posted on 04/17/2015 2:27:56 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: entropy12

Romney only dropped out in 2008 after a poor Super Tuesday showing.

Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, and Fred Thompson were out before Super Tuesday. Ron Paul was the main spoilsport, and Huckabee was the major opponent of McCain after Romney dropped out.


71 posted on 04/17/2015 2:45:07 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Super Tuesday is too late to drop out. If Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson and Huckabee had immediately united behind ONE candidate after SC primary, they can defeat McCain.

Why don’t conservatives ever admit they have no unity? Why blame the GOPe for fielding just one strong candidate?


72 posted on 04/17/2015 3:35:40 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: entropy12

You are seriously proposing that Iowa, New Hampshire, and SC should be the only states that count votes before conservatives unite? Yer smokin’ yer socks.

Besides, your facts are wrong. Giuliani, Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson withdrew in January. Romney withdrew the first week of February. Huckabee was obviously the frontrunning conservative, and he only lasted until the first week of March.

The problem was that the supposed conservatives mostly endorsed McCain instead of Huckabee (the only real stop-McCain candidate).


73 posted on 04/17/2015 3:53:06 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

The schedule in 2016 is different than before,if you have not had a chance to keep up. South Carolina is the 6th primary in 2016. Here is the sequence of primaries n 2016:

IA, NH, CO, UT, NV & SC

Results of these primaries will be a good indicator of who is connecting with voters.

You are not focusing on my main point in 2008 & 2012. Which is that one RINO McCain in 2008, and ONE RINO Romney in 2012 were running against a multitude of conservatives. Why? The reality is, there the electorate is not sufficiently conservative to anoint multitude of conservatives over a single RINO. The reality is there are a lot of so called “moderate” republican voters.

Please do not use tactics of liberals, by focusing on incidental details instead of the main issue.


74 posted on 04/17/2015 6:37:03 PM PDT by entropy12 (My prediction: Governor Walker will win Iowa & NH primaries.)
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To: Windflier

Let us never forget one word of your post. Romney and all GOP-E are dyed in the wool liberals and a menace to the survival of this republic.


75 posted on 04/17/2015 8:42:56 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: Din Maker; Windflier; Finny; Norm Lenhart; EternalVigilance; Dr. Sivana; RitaOK
Din Maker:

Your big hero got his backside kicked because he was a genuinely worthless candidate. Had Romney been honest he would have primaried Obozo and that would have resulted in Demonrat Tweedledum and Tweedledee with not a dime's worth of difference between them. In that event, there would have been an actual Republican candidate who might have beaten either Romney or Obozo.

That Romney is a Mormon had little to do with his loss. In fact, if he had been a better Mormon, he might have won. Instead, he wanted to violate the tenets of that church by supporting abortion, homosexual perversion and a wide variety of deviations from Mormonism. I am a Roman Catholic and I would gladly vote for a solidly social conservative Mormon. I will never vote for trash like Romney.

Ahhh, but that means four more years of Obozo. True enough but there is still a Republican Party (after Romney's loss) with a very good stable of candidates such as Scott Walker and Ted Cruz and others to defeat the Arkansas Medusa. If Romney had been elected, we would have the same damage to our institutions and standing in the world and NO OPPOSITION PARTY to put an end to entrenched radicalism.

I note that you are not happy with the 2012 result. Too bad. Next time nominate a candidate worth voting for. I do not owe you or Mittens my vote. You have to earn it the old fashioned way by nominating a conservative even if that gets Wall Street corrupticons and Chamber of Commerce whores' undies in a bunch.

Start aiming some of those (all of those?) adjectives in the direction of the money changers who infest our GOP temple. You are good with adjectives but Windflier is a lot better with the facts of Romney's miserable but well-funded and fraudulent existence.

It appears that my happiness is directly proportional to your misery since I refuse to check my principles at the door to vote for trash like Romney. So be it.

76 posted on 04/17/2015 9:05:19 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club: Rack 'em Danno!)
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To: Din Maker; BlackElk
The voters, like you, for whom Romney was not Conservative enough, and the Evangelical Christians who thought he was not Christian enough, stayed home in 2012 and gave him 4 years of unbridled power to finish the destruction he started. Thank you very much!! I hope, by damn, that all of you are happy.

Now that the Romney supporters KNOW that we won't play along they will learn to only put up candidates that can at least FAKE it well. It is a simple geometry proof.

GIVEN: Any Republican nominee who has fat streaks of leftism, ESPECIALLY ON SOCIAL ISSUES, will lose 4 million votes on election day.

Jeb Bush is actually running to the left of his record, which makes it all the more satisfying to lock him out. IF he cares about the country, he should humbly reply that the country is not interested in another Bush at this time, and that he will support whomever the Republican nominee is.
77 posted on 04/18/2015 4:31:14 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Bull crap. They will do no such thing. They’re as hard-headed as you are.


78 posted on 04/18/2015 10:54:58 AM PDT by Din Maker (Anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for VP in 2016?)
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To: BlackElk
I note that you are not happy with the 2012 result. Too bad. Next time nominate a candidate worth voting for.

Wow! I didn't know that I was the one who, single handedly nominated the 2012 GOP candidate. Please be advised......
I have never liked Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney was NOT, and is NOT, my freakin' hero. But, he would have been a helluva lot better than that creep that's in The White House now. Granted, our candidates have been crappy ever since Ronald Reagan, but you, and those of your mind-set, will keep radical, left-wingers in the Oval Office until we are all wearing the insignia of the Islamic Republic on our sleeve. Hell, y'all would find some reason for not voting for Jesus Christ if he was on the GOP Ticket.
79 posted on 04/18/2015 11:10:06 AM PDT by Din Maker (Anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for VP in 2016?)
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To: BlackElk
That Romney is a Mormon had little to do with his loss. In fact, if he had been a better Mormon, he might have won. Instead, he wanted to violate the tenets of that church by supporting abortion, homosexual perversion and a wide variety of deviations from Mormonism.

Oh really? Well, your aforementioned conclusion has never kept Orrin Hatch or Harry Reid from being reelected a gazillion times. Do you have another hypothesis to put forth that has already been disproved? The longer you expound, the more stupid you sound. (HEY... that rhymes.)
80 posted on 04/18/2015 11:19:01 AM PDT by Din Maker (Anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for VP in 2016?)
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