Like a lot of people I was wrong about Trump not going anywhere. I thought that when the actual voting began people would grow up and make adult decisions. After Iowa I really thought that was happening.
It didn’t.
A Trump nomination would be a disaster. It would almost insure Hillary would continue the job Obama has done in transforming this country into a third world Canada. And even if elected a Trump Presidency would wreak havoc on the better party of our republic.
After Scott Walker dropped out my picks were Marco Rubio and then John Kasich. Both are just men, neither are perfect. It is apparent to me that neither is going to win, and Kasich seems to be sipping a bit on the Trump Kool-Aid.
But Kasich isn’t much of a concern. He’s winning only a few delegates. What needs to happen is my man Marco needs to drop out. And he needs to do so before the Florida primary. Ted Cruz should offer him the VP slot if he does. Trump can still be beat, and Hillary MUST be defeated. I think a Cruz-Rubio ticket could pull it off. Marco needs to be convinced that he’s better off in the #2 slot for now than to live with 4 years of HRC or Trump!
I think most would agree with you about Trump. But the rest of it seems incoherent. You like Scott Walker, the guy who destroys unions, universities, schools, teachers, and pretty much the whole of the public service? Cruz for Prez and Rubio for VP? Obama “transforming the country into a third world Canada”? I don’t know if this is supposed to be parody or what led to this inexplicable outburst, but here’s what I think.
Cruz and Rubio would be great partners. My original thought was that the Mutant White Blob that appeared on Cruz’s lip at the last debate might make a great VP, but it’s probably too intellectual and not aggressive enough. But Cruz and Rubio could split up the work really well. Cruz could busy himself with abolishing the IRS, the EPA, and the Department of Education, winding down the government, and hurling nuclear destruction all over the Middle East. Because if there’s anything that strengthens the republic more than everyone being ungoverned, uneducated, stupid, and poisoned, it’s everyone being ungoverned, uneducated, stupid, poisoned, and surrounded by nuclear conflagration. Your man Marco could occupy himself rounding up all the Mexicans and Muslims and packing them into railroad cattle cars. Because if there’s anything that strengthens the republic more than everyone being ungoverned, uneducated, stupid, poisoned, and in the middle of a global nuclear war, it’s the added benefit of a pogrom against minorities and a modern-day Holocaust.
Best regards from the third world, Canada. Incidentally, that’s the place that was referenced in Google searches prefaced by the words “how can I move to” in a volume of search traffic that went up 1500% after Super Tuesday, and the Immigration Canada website was also swamped by unusual traffic volume. And I don’t think it was because of Hillary or Bernie. I think it’s because there’s a fairly strong consensus that your idea of the “better party” is that it’s actually a party whose principal candidates are all dangerous gibbering lunatics.
I’m in the public service and doing just fine. Paying a little bit more than free for bennies hasn’t hurt anyone I know. But now you’ll post a bunch of cites claiming otherwise. :rolleyes: Don’t bother.
The OP is about who can best beat Hillary. Lets keep it on that track. Trump ain’t it, and even if I thought he could win it’s not really a healthy alternative to her.
I don’t care who gets elected. This is my country and I’m staying. Anyone who says they’ll leave is acting like a spoiled child.
If that’s Obama’s goal he’s doing a piss poor job. Unemployment is down, millions more have health care, no new wars. If that’s third world I’ll take it.
I can’t see Trump picking Rubio, there’s too much bad blood there. How many times would Hillary say during a debate “well, according to your own running mate…”? I think Rubio’s political career is over. His own state is about to hand him a humiliating defeat, his presidential run has been a clusterfuck of Jebian proportions.
To be honest, I’m not sure if I see any of Trump’s 2016 rivals other than Christie taking the veep spot. Maybe, just maybe, someone like Scott Walker. That would suit me fine as I’d get a chance to vote against the both of them.
Are these just comments or are you missing the point? I don’t want Trump to be the nominee. I want Rubio to drop out so he doesn’t take any more delegates from Cruz. As of last week Tuesday I’m backing Cruz.
You poisoned your own well a bit with the anti-Obama schlock. I think you could argue both points. You could say with some justification that Rubio’s exit would solidify the anti-Trump vote. Or you could also say that the best bet for stopping Trump is to have Rubio win Florida and Kasich win Ohio. I think the latter might be a bit more feasible but reasonable people could also argue for the former.
Running mate to a mild-mannered former Congressman in his mid-sixties who worked with Ronald Reagan and gets elected President? Are you selling Kasich/Rubio 2016?
not quite; Quayle didn’t even make it to the starting gates of 1996 or 2000.
Rubio could be the FDR in this little-known sense: FDR was the veep nominee in 1920 with James Cox. Cox/Roosevelt got blown away in the worst popular vote landslide in history (a margin of loss of more than 26%, more than 1984, 1972, or even 1964), but it got FDR exposure.
Rubio might also be the GOP version of Gary Hart for this generation; a younger guy with looks and electoral potential but zero core constituency.
As a Democrat, if you really want to know who I think would be most worried about in the general, it would be your initial choices: Rubio and Kasich. I think either of those can beat Hillary. I (hope) that Cruz is too far right to win, but I think it would be close with him. Trump, I expect Hillary would beat easily. On the other hand, I think I could stomach a Rubio or Kasich presidency–can’t be any worse than we’ve done with Republicans recently. Cruz? He’s the one I most worry about.
Someone from the Tampa Bay paper referred to him as a Republican John Edwards. Ouch.
I don’t see how a Rubio VP slot helps Cruz at all. He’s already cleaning up delegates and taking away from Rubio’s polls. Rubio adds nothing to a Cruz ticket aside from his supposed “foreign policy experience” which is only noteworthy in that no one else on the GOP ticket has been on a FP committee. Beyond that, you have a couple nearly identical first term Cuban senators. The best you could say is “He’ll be out of the race” and I think Trump and Cruz will succeed in knocking Rubio out of the race on their own without selling him a veep slot.
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Rubio adds nothing to a Cruz ticket aside from his supposed “foreign policy experience” which is only noteworthy in that no one else on the GOP ticket has been on a FP committee.
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IIRC, Kasich spent 18 years on the House Armed Services Committee, and I’d figure military policy counts as foreign policy if you squint just right.