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2016: Bush vs Clinton

Who is your favorite?

  • Hillary Clinton

    Votes: 22 62.9%
  • Jeb Bush

    Votes: 13 37.1%

  • Total voters
    35
Hillary puts Warren on her ticket and she wins a 300 electoral landslide, when the money starts pouring in for HC next year she will put the pedal on the medal..

ALSO in Presidential years the Dems benefit from huge turnout, the Dems will take back the senate too..

Then I better convert all my 401K back to bonds, as the markets will fail again.
 
I certainly wouldn't vote for either. But if you put a gun to my head and forced me to vote for one of the two? I trust Jeb a little bit more than Hillary and as a person I like him a bit more also. However, I would probably approve more of the Supreme Court Justices Hillary would appoint than Jeb would. So I would probably make my choice based soley on SCOTUS appointments.

But the first thing I would do after voting would be to take a long shower. Actually, the first thing I would do would probably be to call the cops on you for putting a gun to my head. I mean, WTF man?
 
I certainly wouldn't vote for either. But if you put a gun to my head and forced me to vote for one of the two? I trust Jeb a little bit more than Hillary and as a person I like him a bit more also. However, I would probably approve more of the Supreme Court Justices Hillary would appoint than Jeb would. So I would probably make my choice based soley on SCOTUS appointments.

But the first thing I would do after voting would be to take a long shower. Actually, the first thing I would do would probably be to call the cops on you for putting a gun to my head. I mean, WTF man?

I have to agree with this. Plus, he has executive experience.

Still...

I hate placing my mark just so the other person has less a chance to win. Hillary actually has some pros, but she isn't qualified to lead our nation anymore than Obama.

Can we have a democrat like JFK please? One that doesn't get assassinated?
 
I think there will be not a really other option.

I would love to see a "none of the above" option for all positions. If "none of the above" wins, then there has to be a new election with candidates other than listed.

Wouldn't that be a hoot, if none of the above wins!
 
I would love to see a "none of the above" option for all positions. If "none of the above" wins, then there has to be a new election with candidates other than listed.

Wouldn't that be a hoot, if none of the above wins!

Theoretically America can only decide between these two.
 
To the bolded. That's far too hyperbolic and too broadly critical to even respond to. To the rest, make the republicans and the democrats sit one out. Vote third party.

It's not hyperbolic at all. The Democrats went nuts over a candidate with NO leadership experience at all and are now hell bent on electing another candidate that has no accomplishments of note on her resume. The last person the Democrats voted for with any leadership on their resume was Bill Clinton.
 
Theoretically America can only decide between these two.

Yes, it is a problem with our election system.

We need run off elections, so people can vote for their favorite, instead of voting against their least favorite.
 
I think the United Staates of America need a President, who is interested on the economy, and Hillary Clinton will not do that.
 
Who is your favorite?
I haven't picked one yet. I suspect it will end up being Rand Paul.

I fully intended to vote for the GOP pick last time, against Obama rather than for the GOP. When they changed their own convention rules, I spoiled my vote, voting for Paul.

Nobody has convinced me they would be a good president since Reagan. He is the last presidential candidate I voted "for" rather than picking the lesser evil, or spoiling it with a third party vote.
 
I think the United Staates of America need a President, who is interested on the economy, and Hillary Clinton will not do that.

What's sad, is she might be better than a republican pick. If the house and senate hold as they are, or gain republican seats... Do we really want a republican in?

Granted, we might be able to undo Obamacare, but unlikely unless republicans win big.

None of the politicians are actually in DC for us. Both sides are lawful evil people. they are only about themselves. As voters, we really shouldn't play into the polarizing games, because it keeps the public unaware of the other things they do.
 
What's sad, is she might be better than a republican pick. If the house and senate hold as they are, or gain republican seats... Do we really want a republican in?

Granted, we might be able to undo Obamacare, but unlikely unless republicans win big.

None of the politicians are actually in DC for us. Both sides are lawful evil people. they are only about themselves. As voters, we really shouldn't play into the polarizing games, because it keeps the public unaware of the other things they do.

I think America really need a Republican in the White House, because that will be much better for the economy.
 
Compare the economy under Obama with the economy under George W. Bush.

At what point? Do you remember who was president when the housing bubble popped and the economy cratered?

(NOTE: I'm of the opinion that "what party the President belongs to" is pretty low on the list when it comes to reasons for the health of the economy.)
 
As a right-leaning political scientist I think Hillary is smarter than Jeb Bush. (She's out-earned him and arguably the only reason Bill+her are rich is because she wisely saved their sham marriage in a calculating move). Jeb Bush strikes me as the quintessential "in the right spot" candidate. Truth be told Hillary, like her or not, is a viscous trench fighter. She'd basically have to be to keep a serial lecher like Bill from complete collapse over the years.

Jeb Bush strikes me as a weak man. He just does. He seems to have lived a very sheltered, liberal esq Miami Hispanic esq lifestyle that in the end while it may get a lot of nice things said about him among Hispanics they're still gong to vote Democrat due to economic reasons. Jeb Bush is going to be stuck having infuriated and ridiculed the GOP far right base and Hillary will have the Left in full force forcing Jeb Bush to legalize immigrants which will absolutely end him on election day with his white GOP base. That's how it will go down I suspect. Primarily because I don't see how Jeb Bush can, with his Hispanic family situation, "Swing right and make his grand swing right believable to himself let alone anyone else". IF Jeb Bush cannot make a believable swing right, as Romney could not, then he will lose to the believable Leftist, Hillary.

That is why Romney lost. He wasn't a believable conservative. You just knew something was off. Jeb Bush strikes me as the same way hearing him talk on immigration, on Iraq. Maybe he has it in him but so far I don't see it.
 
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Jeb Bush faces the modern dilemma of all US political class conservatives. He's of the upper class social liberal class of US society just as Romney and such people aren't (usually) good at pretending to be middle class conservative heroes as they claim. The dismal truth is they're often more liberal than your average middle class liberal.
 
I'm still convinced Walker will be the GOP's nominee. He's just as much of a so called "RINO" as Jeb, though for some reason he gets a pass from the conservative base...at least right now.
 
As a right-leaning political scientist I think Hillary is smarter than Jeb Bush. (She's out-earned him and arguably the only reason Bill+her are rich is because she wisely saved their sham marriage in a calculating move). Jeb Bush strikes me as the quintessential "in the right spot" candidate. Truth be told Hillary, like her or not, is a viscous trench fighter. She'd basically have to be to keep a serial lecher like Bill from complete collapse over the years.

Jeb Bush strikes me as a weak man. He just does. He seems to have lived a very sheltered, liberal esq Miami Hispanic esq lifestyle that in the end while it may get a lot of nice things said about him among Hispanics they're still gong to vote Democrat due to economic reasons. Jeb Bush is going to be stuck having infuriated and ridiculed the GOP far right base and Hillary will have the Left in full force forcing Jeb Bush to legalize immigrants which will absolutely end him on election day with his white GOP base. That's how it will go down I suspect. Primarily because I don't see how Jeb Bush can, with his Hispanic family situation, "Swing right and make his grand swing right believable to himself let alone anyone else". IF Jeb Bush cannot make a believable swing right, as Romney could not, then he will lose to the believable Leftist, Hillary.

That is why Romney lost. He wasn't a believable conservative. You just knew something was off. Jeb Bush strikes me as the same way hearing him talk on immigration, on Iraq. Maybe he has it in him but so far I don't see it.

Romney did fine amongst conservatives. The myth that they stayed home is a joke. Karl Rove: The Myth of the Stay-at-Home Republicans - WSJ

With all of this talk about "Obama destroying America", and "Obama hates white people", did you really think conservatives were going to stay home and let him ride his way to an easy victory? Nah.
 
Since when?

That's the question I'm asking. History refutes his assertion of "Republicans in the white house is much better for the economy".
 
It will be a competition between two dynasties in the United States. It will be very interesting, so, which one is your favorite?

We already had a Clinton vs Bush election. We don't need another.
 
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