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Romney will stay out if Jeb gets in.
but that is like asking if you'd rather have syphillis or gonorrhea. :shrug:
Romney will stay out if Jeb gets in.
I think we have an incredibly difficult electoral map to navigate in 2016 regardless of the candidate. But I haven't read anything that leads me to believe Bush would negatively affect that map in a meaningful way anymore than a similar candidate like Christie would.
You know, Pero, I read somewhere recently that not only are the voters mostly ignored by both Houses of Congress - until election time when they suddenly remember us again - we don't even really elect the President, the Electoral College does! Isn't it sad that all we're needed for is our tax money - they give gold-diggers a bad name! :mrgreen: I understand why the compromise was made way back when - they were afraid the voters might elect a bumpkin that would make America look bad in the eyes of the world if it was left entirely to them - but I've got news for them! Their plan didn't turn out to be foolproof either and I have history on my side as proof! :lamo:
Really? Another Bush, possibly another Clinton? What has happened to this great nation? Is this the best out of all the people in this country we can do? Or are we just subjects to a ruling class elite who could give a **** about you or me?
Sad reality is, there are those cheering for these royals and thier race for power.
I think the brits got it right. have royalty and then have your government. I totally think this nation is in awe of royalty which is the way we treat hollywood celebs and apparently we want some kind of bloodline ties in our leadership. It's kind of gross.
Either of those will get beat.I think we have an incredibly difficult electoral map to navigate in 2016 regardless of the candidate. But I haven't read anything that leads me to believe Bush would negatively affect that map in a meaningful way anymore than a similar candidate like Christie would.
Why? What'd they do to you?When that royal couple or whoever came to nyc, they swooned, reporters and cameramen had to wear slacks and shoes, etc. I would have thrown ****ing tomatoes.
Either of those will get beat.
I think the odds are against us regardless of the candidate but they certainly have a better chance than most of the alternatives.
McCain won the 2008 nomination fair and square, and would have made a fine POTUS.
Right. Or Governor John Kasich of Ohio. Someone outside Washington with proven governing experience.
Apparently at this early date having a last name of Bush or Clinton is more of a help than a hindrance. The ideology of these two is something the Republicans and Democrats will have to decide on as far as the nominations are concerned. I am more into the numbers aspect of it, especially the electoral college side of things.
I think on the "numbers" side of things, Demo's are absolutely praying for a Jeb Bush nomination.
I am hoping for a non-establishment populist conservative candidate.
I am hoping for a non-establishment populist conservative candidate.
Right now I do not know whom that would be. Christie and Bush are definitely establishment candidates if they run.
We will have to see what shakes out. If the choice is between Jeb and Christie...my choice will be "none of the above".
As of this point in time, I do not think Christie is going anywhere.
Except the next Cowboys game and the inaugurations of governors in the early primary states of Iowa and South Carolina.
With the GOP convention moved up three months to June, Bush's moves are actually right on time,
preempting some candidates and forcing others like Huckabee to get a move on .
no more bushes
no more clintons
if either of them had any fresh ideas they'd have expressed them by now; instead they will run on reforming the various messes that they helped create. no thanks
I would say the odds right now are 9-1 Clinton will be the Democratic nominee. Bush on the other hand is iffy. Probably no better than a 20% chance as of today that he will win the Republican nomination.
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So if Jeb and Hillary do wind up at the two major political party's nominees, whom would you vote for? In Georgia we usually have third party choices like the Libertarians, the Constitutional Party and sometimes the Green Party. Would you vote third party or not vote at all?
Ours is a country of voting for the lesser of two evils, has been for a long time...Myself, I would vote for Bush, but I damned sure wouldn't like it....We have to find a way to break this progressive lurch in our society...Whether Republican, or Democrat, progressivism is killing this country.
I take it you support a pool of a few families having turns as president?
It seems we can do better.