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Cruz, Paul, Huckabee, Perry and Santorum are unelectable in a national election. Sorry folks, but it is the truth. Unless Democrats nominate Kucinich or something, but against Hillary not a one of them will win.
Hunstman can never win a GOP primary. I know that they do nominate moderates but Huntsman is simply too unaplogetically moderate. He's only moved MORE toward the center while people like Romney and McCain moved to the right. I wouldn't be surprised if Huntsman pulls a Charlie Crist and announces he is becoming an Independent or Democrat in the future.
That leaves Rubio, Christie and Ryan. Rubio strikes me as something of a hack, I'm not sure if he has many core convictions. He was a Tea Party guy when it was popular, but now he's getting more moderate because he thinks the Tea Party wave has passed.
Christie I like, he checks most of the the right boxes. His main crime from the far-right's perspective is he hasn't used a conspiratorial tone or questioned Obama's birth certificate. He is elected in a blue state. I'm not sure what all these purists want. Do you really think swing states are going to vote for somebody like Ted Cruz?
Ryan is another good one, but I think he could possibly move up to majority leader or speaker in a future Congress. Of course maybe he is a RINO now, I don't know, I don't keep tabs on who has been excommunicated from the One Holy Church of True Conservatism but I heard some calling him a sell-out a few months ago.
I'm sure you would've said the same thing in 2000 that George Bush was unelectable. Or even more-so in 1980 that Ronald Reagan was the most unelectable candidate against Jimmy Carter! OR, how John McCain was the most electable candidate against Obama in 2008. Or that Mitt Romney was the most electable against Obama!
Admittedly, Huckabee is the most electable - he is experienced, and likeable. Ted Cruz is my favorite. He's also very inspirational but the lying liberal media tries to decide how you will see him. They will try to make him seem unlikeable and unelectable - but they are wrong. Put Ted Cruz - the man who single handedly stood against the masses of corrupt Washington elite to lead the fight to repeal Obamacare - VERSUS the old hag who has been noted for ethics violations every single time (dating back to the Watergate scandal investigation) every time she has been given a position of power - and every single time gets caught trying to cover it up. Especially with the Ben "What difference does it make?" Ghazi scandal. She was a failure of a Secretary of State - and held no leadership positions in the Senate. Put her and Ted Cruz in a debate 1 on 1 - and Ted Cruz will own her in a way that no person was ever owned before.
Common sense is common sense. Even if the media tries to tell you otherwise.
As for Paul Ryan, he voted to raise the debt ceiling in a plan he came up with along with Senator Patty Murray.