The next generation of Republican candidates (2016)

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What do you think the chances are that Hillary Clinton will run?

Chris Christie seems like a normal reasonable sort of person, but I don't know much about him.



That seems a bit harsh on Ryan. His views may be wrong, but I'm not sure he is in the league of Palin. :p

Chris Christie is, overall, a good governor. I don't necessarily agree with him on most issues, but he is a straight shooter, who sticks to his core principles, and ultimately puts those core principles ahead of partisan politics.

It may have been harsh on Ryan, but not far from the truth. He doesn't say stupid things to the level of Palin, but he's yet to say anything that demonstrates him to be a deep thinker.

What America needs is a cross-party ticket. Dem Pres, Rep VP or vice versa, both moderates, who can actually try to unite the country. There are some (vocal minorities) on both sides that will never be reconciled, but i have no qualms about leaving them behind, as they're both "my way or the highway" folks.
 
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Chris Christie is, overall, a good governor. I don't necessarily agree with him on most issues, but he is a straight shooter, who sticks to his core principles, and ultimately puts those core principles ahead of partisan politics.

I'm going to reluctantly agree with this assessment of Christie -- while I find his personality grating at times (he comes off as a bit of a blowhard), he gets things done.
 
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That was the Republican Party 40-50 years ago. Folks like Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield, and Chuck Percy have all been purged. It's very sad. Dwight Eisenhower and even Richard Nixon would be called RINOs these days. :sigh:

You fail to realize that the world was, well, a completely different world 50 years ago. If you didn't notice, there was this little thing called the "cultural revolution". 50 years ago, we didn't have internet inappropriate contentography, violence and all sorts of sexual images in movies, magazines and other media. We didn't have a 40% divorce rate, 40% child illegitimacy rate, a serious meth-addict problem and HIV AIDS. You guys talk like this never happened, like Dwight Eisenhower (or JFK for that matter) wouldn't be the least bit disturbed by the babymomma generation or the slacker culture. To bring up politicians from a by-gone era and say "they were liberal on this issue, therefore the GOP should be pro-choice, pro-marijuana, take God out of their platform, etc" without considering how the times, issues and the context that these politicians lived in has fundamentally changed is a failure to grasp the full picture.
 
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Personally, I am going to keep a watch on Marco Rubio.

I like what they noted in Memo To Republican Insiders: If Marco Rubio Is Your First Answer, You're Asking The Wrong Question << Post - Modern Conservative:



A poll of Republican “insiders” reveals that Marco Rubio is the early favorite for 2016. I don’t take it seriously as presidential election speculation, but I take it very seriously as evidence of the climate of opinion among Republican functionaries. It reveals a combination of panic and laziness. The thinking seems to be that since Republicans are having trouble with the growing, nonwhite fraction of the electorate, they should nominate Rubio because he is the “The Latino Republican version of Obama/Kennedy — he inspires, he’s handsome, and what’s not to like?” Well if he is the Latino Obama/Kennedy…

The Republican problem is not that their last ticket was a couple of white guys. The problem is that the entire center-right infrastructure is unable to communicate intelligibly to a large and growing fraction of the population. I know lots of people who don’t know anything about Romney other than he was for the rich, tax cuts, and he was trying to take advantage of a lousy economy to win an election. A lot of the country hears almost nothing of what the center-right has to say and what they do hear in nonsense about job creators who really did “build that” and some bromides about “opportunity” that were unmoored from anything in their own lives What they have never heard is a pithy explanation about why any policy would make their lives better. That problem will be mitigated only very slightly and temporarily by picking Rubio for president. The whole idea of looking for a Republican Obama is discouraging because it is really just a search for a short cut to the hard work of winning people over.
 
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Chris Christie is, overall, a good governor. I don't necessarily agree with him on most issues, but he is a straight shooter, who sticks to his core principles, and ultimately puts those core principles ahead of partisan politics.

It may have been harsh on Ryan, but not far from the truth. He doesn't say stupid things to the level of Palin, but he's yet to say anything that demonstrates him to be a deep thinker.

What America needs is a cross-party ticket. Dem Pres, Rep VP or vice versa, both moderates, who can actually try to unite the country. There are some (vocal minorities) on both sides that will never be reconciled, but i have no qualms about leaving them behind, as they're both "my way or the highway" folks.

Christie also busted over 100 corrupt politicians in NJ from both sides before he took over as governor.

At minimum, you know you are getting a guy who goes after corruption.
 
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My theory is that the republicans need to give some Santorumesk hard social conservative who is beloved by the base the nomination and have them crushed in the general election prior to any sort of introspection or realignment.

My theory was that that's what they were doing with Romney.
 
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Herman Cain 2016.

LOL. I think he plans to run independent if anything, but I do like him. No to Bachman Turner Overdrive.

I'm thinking Marco Rubio and C. Rice.
 
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How about Petraeus for Republican candidate? Would be about time for us to have a war hero actually leading our nation.

Petraeus has just ended his CIA career in shame. I can't see him being the nominee.
 
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LOL. I think he plans to run independent if anything, but I do like him. No to Bachman Turner Overdrive.

I'm thinking Marco Rubio and C. Rice.

Let's talk serious for a moment. Rubio is trouble because he will drive the "you won't win without them" hard right away with his immigration stance, and Condi will not run even under the threat of being water boarded.
 
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Let's talk serious for a moment. Rubio is trouble because he will drive the "you won't win without them" hard right away with his immigration stance, and Condi will not run even under the treat of being water boarded.

water boarding is a treat? :confused:
 
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Over an affair? C'mon now, Obama has sanctioned murder and he got re-elected. I guess marital affairs trumps murder as far as morality goes in this country.

The GOP impeached Clinton over his extramarital shenanignans -- there's only so much hypocrisy even they're willing to bear.
 
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