Boy, the poll results released early were quite misleading. They showed about the only people that did worse than Jeb.
In the full poll, Walker is at +36, Rubio is at +30, Paul is +9, Bush is +7, Perry is +5, and Cruz is +2.
I still maintain that this is a repeat of 2012. Instead of all the unRomneys getting out of the clown car one by one, it will be the unBushes. Still, in the end, Republicans will hold their noses and vote for Bush just as they did for Romney, all the while bemoaning that he is doomed because he isn’t a True Believer.
Yeah, it just happened to end up on his desk, totally unexpectedly.
I’m running a special today on bridges. I’ll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for a mere $50,000. The George Washington Bridge and the Tappan Zee Bridge, $120K each. But I’ll sell you the whole kit and caboodle for a mere $200,000, cheaper than most houses these days, and with a lot more earnings potential. What do you say?
I disagree. The problem with the 2012 clown car was that they didn’t look presidential even to the rabid right-wingers that constitute the GOP base. This crew may look like clowns to us, but I don’t think our opinion is shared by the likely GOP primary electorate.
In 2012 they opted for Romney because Rick Santorum, a guy who, as an incumbent Senator, lost his seat by a landslide, was in their view the best of a bad lot of alternatives. This time, as they see it, they’ve got much better choices than Santorum.
Yep. Even the clowns are clowns because they are too extreme for the party, not because they are unfit. Ted Cruz is Harvard educated. Rick Santorum is just a religious extremist. Ben Carson is a renowned neurosurgeon. Herman Cain was a half decent businessman. Bobby Jindal is a two term governor with real accomplishments and is a decently big name. All of the two term governors in 2012 were unknowns and eliminated from the race even before it got properly started except for Rick Perry. And there’s more where Jindal came from(Perry’s probably back in, Kasich, Pence, Snyder, Walker).
This field is going to be filled with people who at least on paper have the right resume.
Heh. He was always too much of a politician for me. I liked him in 2012 because in that moment we needed competence more than anything else. We’re certainly going to need it in 2016 too, but the field might give us a little more integrity in the process.
You sure don’t remember 2012 like I do. I thought Herman Cain was the business genius who brought Godfather’s Pizza back from the brink of destruction, Rick Perry was the principled conservative who’d bring the Texas miracle to the rest of America, and Mitt Romney was the venture capitalist whose financial acumen would set the nation on a strong fiscal course for generations to come.
Well, that’s the GOP’s basic problem right there; any presidential candidate acceptable to what is now the party’s base will be unacceptable to the voters in the general election.
And they won’t in 2016 – and, as in 2008 and 2012, the choice of a “RINO” will fail to fire up the base. That’s the other half of the GOP’s basic problem.