The former first lady of Arkansas? Hates the south? What evidence is there that she hates men?
If you can live with hating only 2 of the 3 could I get your vote?
It is possible that I sometimes indulge in a bit of whimsical hyperbole. I’m sure that Hillary is probably fond of someone with testicles, and may have friends in a state with an SEC school.
A Dem that is not Hillary has a legitimate chance at earning my vote. I usually vote a split ticket most years. I voted Dem for Governor last time. Voted Dem for Senator last time. Both those candidates lost, but I voted for them. Hillary has no chance at getting my vote. Just not happening.
How many republican women do you actually know? I’m a republican so I probably know more than you do, and all the women I know would rather vote for Lucifer himself than Hillary Clinton.
That said, the current selection of Republicans is pretty pitiful. I’m hoping hard we don’t have to choose between Clinton and Bush. I’d hate to have to move to Canada now that I’m finally old enough to have enough points to.
Run, Bloomberg, Run!!!
Honestly, most of the republicans I know are extremist lunatics who genuinely believe that Obama is the anti-Christ (is that one word?) I tend to avoid talking politics with them, because: CRAZY. I’m thinking more the type like my Grandmother probably is, who are reasonable women not especially involved or invested in politics who have lived through eras where women were truly repressed. I can imagine many of them thinking it’s pretty cool that a woman could be president. I don’t know, I’m just pulling this out of my ass, I could very well be wrong.
Well, if it comes down to those two, of course they’ll vote for the Republican.
I couldn’t resist.
See post #42.
If he thought it would get him the White House, Ted Cruz would have the surgery.
If we had a woman, that would be wonderful. We don’t. We have Carly Fiorina, who qualifies as a woman but doesn’t qualify as Presidential material.
Nikki Haley and Susana Martinez are our best female prospects at this point, but they don’t want to run. Could end up on the ticket though.
Humorously the lower down the political spectrum you went was traditionally where I was least partisan. Some of that was seeing the traditional Democratic Party focus being on issues being more appropriate below the federal level. Some of it was not caring about the usual national issues that separated the parties when selecting say the county drain commissioner. At the federal level I tended to vote strongly Republican. I’ve been lucky to be in districts/states that still tended to be represented by what the Tea Party called RINOs. The rest though… :smack:
Do you mean only candidates who have already announced they are running or do you include strong candidates who haven’t made official announcements yet but are taken seriously enough to be included in most 2016 GOP Presidential polls?
Might simplify your considerations to pare down to the top twenty or so contenders. Just sayin’, is all.
I’d vote for Santorum.
I say Rand Paul; he seems the most presidential out of a bizarre group of candidates.
As a Democrat, John Kasich is the potential candidate who worries me the most. He’s intelligent, level-headed, a good debater, and he potentially brings all those Ohio electoral votes with him.
I am hoping he is perceived as too moderate by Republican primary voters. If he gets the nomination, the general election could be a dogfight.
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Bah; she throws like a girl!
[ducks & runs, just in case]
Kasich actually has a very conservative history. To the extent he’s moderate, it’s only because governing is a different job than legislating. Kasich has figured out the limits of ideology on the realities of governing.
Rubio is probably our most formidable guy, but Kasich will probably make the best President. He’s ready to be President and he’s not a divisive figure anymore. Being governor really mellowed him.
As of right now, I’m with Kasich, but that is of course subject to change.
What happened to Graham?
He said “subject to change”. Change every hour, it appears.
I like Lindsey Graham. He would probably do a lot to reduce partisanship. He’s got a lot of Democratic friends in the Senate. He and Clinton will be close partners on foreign policy should she be elected, as they’ve always been.