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My take on the current crop of candidates (both parties)...

It has been said many many many times by many many many people - including myself - that Rubio is the best shot the GOP has of winning this year. And there is little doubt that if we picked presidents by the method that we used to pick them before the primary mechanism became so dominant, he would be the man. But with the primary mechanism in place and the right wing of the party so strong and disproportional in that process, Rubio is simply NOT gaining any traction. Over the last month he has been basically spinning his wheels and standing still.

I strongly suspect that if Trump can win two of the first three - and that would be New Hampshire and South Carolina - and finish second in Iowa - its his for the taking and little is going to stop him.

And then we will see a repeat of 64 and Goldwater and the party can remake itself and start over................ which may be a very good thing.

I've said the same thing about Rubio...but I forgot about what happened in '64 - and you're right. How's the old saying go? From time to time the tree of a political party needs to be pruned of idiots that threaten to choke it to death. Yeah, I know, it was supposed to be about the tree of liberty and the blood of patriots, but you get my point...and I was going to be snarky and apply it to just the GOP, but see what happened to the Dems beginning in '68, all the way through the Reagan administration - it took the Democratic party a long time indeed to prune away the idiots.

I guess that thanks to the 24/7 news cycle and the internet, said pruning just takes place a lot more quickly now.
 
You're being gloomy and pessimistic. If nothing else, Obama has "stress tested" the US economy with his incompetence. However, let's not push our luck by electing another socialist (either avowed [Sanders] or closet [Clinton]).

After 8 years of a "socialist" in charge, is there any industry yet to be nationalized?
 
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