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Rand Paul vs Jeb Bush vs Donald Trump

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  • Rand Paul

    Votes: 4 44.4%

  • Jeb Bush

    Votes: 2 22.2%

  • Donald Trump

    Votes: 3 33.3%
  • Total voters
    9
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ConsvLiberal

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Who should be the candidate of the Republicans?
 
I voted for Bush. Trump is a flip floppin big mouth idiot with a bad comb over. He's not a player; he will not gain share of the vote, he's maxed out. Paul, I don't know enough. He could sway me over time, but he needs to put more meat on the bone, detail his policies more. Bush is the default position. He's not too extreme in his positions, and I'm a centrist.
 
finebead said:
I voted for Bush. Trump is a flip floppin big mouth idiot with a bad comb over. He's not a player; he will not gain share of the vote, he's maxed out. Paul, I don't know enough. He could sway me over time, but he needs to put more meat on the bone, detail his policies more. Bush is the default position. He's not too extreme in his positions, and I'm a centrist.
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Bush is not a real Republican.
 
ConsvLiberal said:
Bush is not a real Republican.
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What's a 'real Republican'? None of the GOP candidates are what Reagan was, much less Bush 41 (whom I like more and more, the older I get). None of the GOP candidates are anything like Goldwater or Buckley.

And it's not their fault. Why? Because before the early 1990's, the GOP candidates did not have to be vetted by far-right media like Fox News, and did not have to be approved by even farther-right pundits like Rush Limbaugh et al. If anything, the power of the conservative pundits have pulled the GOP much farther to the right than either Reagan or Bush 41 were.

To be sure, back in the day the candidates then would say how strong they would be, how they would stand against what the other side said...but when it came to getting the job done, they worked with the Democrats to get the bills passed. But today, 'compromise' is a dirty word, a mark of shame, an automatic sentence of losing the next election, even though 'compromise' was part and parcel of how our government was designed by the Founding Fathers.

No, there are no 'real Republicans' anymore...unless one points to those Democrats who are centrist - and there are a few.
 
ConsvLiberal said:
Bush is not a real Republican.
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Bush has been a Republican all his life and supported the party all his life. Donald Trump has never been a Republican and has supported Hillary and Bill Clinton and other Democrats over the years. Rand Paul, like his father, considers himself a Libertarian who uses the Republican party for relevance and electability. So if you wanted people to pick within your view of a "real Republican" why did you post the three choices you did?
 
trump....no way no how

bush....not just no, hell no

paul....really dont want, but better than the other two
 
Glen Contrarian said:
What's a 'real Republican'? None of the GOP candidates are what Reagan was, much less Bush 41 (whom I like more and more, the older I get). None of the GOP candidates are anything like Goldwater or Buckley.

And it's not their fault. Why? Because before the early 1990's, the GOP candidates did not have to be vetted by far-right media like Fox News, and did not have to be approved by even farther-right pundits like Rush Limbaugh et al. If anything, the power of the conservative pundits have pulled the GOP much farther to the right than either Reagan or Bush 41 were.

To be sure, back in the day the candidates then would say how strong they would be, how they would stand against what the other side said...but when it came to getting the job done, they worked with the Democrats to get the bills passed. But today, 'compromise' is a dirty word, a mark of shame, an automatic sentence of losing the next election, even though 'compromise' was part and parcel of how our government was designed by the Founding Fathers.

No, there are no 'real Republicans' anymore...unless one points to those Democrats who are centrist - and there are a few.
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As a real Republican in my opinion you should be liberal a be for the American Dream. Jeb Bush supports a lot of democrat points.
 
ConsvLiberal said:
Bush is not a real Republican.
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I also had some hope he was smarter than his brother, but on the stump he has not demonstrated that. When he failed to even understand the meaning of the question on Iraq, know what you know now would you have gone in, he gave grave suspicion of his denseness.
 
If I had to vote for a Republican I would vote for Rand Paul. He doesn't have the courage of his convictions that his father had but I still think he is a better choice than the other Republicans.
 
gdgyva said:
trump....no way no how

bush....not just no, hell no

paul....really dont want, but better than the other two
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Why do you do not want Rand Paul as Presidential Candidate?
 
ConsvLiberal said:
Who should be the candidate of the Republicans?
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It should be a Trump and Rand Paul ticket. With Rand as the "working VP".

Let Donald do what he's good at (which is be the spokesman), and let Rand do what he's good at (which is do the work).
 
ConsvLiberal said:
Why do you do not want Rand Paul as Presidential Candidate?
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i dont like his foreign affairs

he is an isolationalist

with todays world, i dont think we can let the rest of the world fend for itself no matter what

that is my biggest issue
 
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