GOP Candidates: Who does the best against Obama?

It sounds like he was talking about his brother.

In an alternate universe, Jeb Bush would be a front runner for the GOP nomination--popular GOP governor in a swing state, hispanic family, smart, photogenic, etc.--but unfortunately for him he has the wrong last name.

 

I'd vote for Paul.

But honestly, again, this is Obama's election to lose. We will see. The only person I'd vote over Obama right now is Ron Paul.

 

Four years ago at this point it seemed like a wide open race. Hillary was probably the favorite, then McCain and then probably Obama and Romney in a tie for third.

I guess a lot of that is not having an incumbent president or a sitting VP running in 2008, as opposed to now. Still, it's kind of shocking that there aren't one or two people even being seriously mentioned as a favorite Republican candidate at this point.

It demonstrates pretty clearly to me two things:

1. Being the favorite at this point doesn't necessarily entitle you to anything. Hillary was and she lost.

2. The Republicans are going to really struggle to come up with a candidate who will both appease the Tea Party crowd and still be electable among the 70% or so of American voters who don't have Tea Party leanings.

My sense is that Tea Partiers, and consequently the whole party, would rather see a Barry Goldwater type Pyrrhic victory of a True Believer, than have somebody who is more moderate make it a close race.

 

Yeah, universe in the mirror, maybe so, but no. He was saying that a candidate from the larger states was needed for the sole purpose of fund raising and early votes. He mentioned that he had half a billion raised before he even announced he would run. The projection at this time is that Obummer had 3/4 of a billion last election, and they expect him to have over one billion to run with this next go around.

Bush want nothing to do with the limelight, said it was fun, he is glad he did what he did. Pointed to several things that have come into being from what he started, but as far as doing the jimmy carter thing, going to grind zero and throwing a party over OBLs death, he found it to be in bad taste to do that where so many died.

 

Actually, I think it was Hillary and Rudy Giuliani leading the polls, IIRC.

 

So completely void of credible candidates, the Republican party's slim hope isn't even a real Republican and he opposes the bulk of the party platform.

Good luck with that choice.

 

It's every billionaire's plan. Make the poor carry the country.

 

Interesting interview.

I do wish the Republican party would completely ignore the religious right and choose a candidate like him. Not just because I think Obama would beat him, but because the religious culture war crap is old and tired. Gays, abortion, evolution, the war on Christmas....jeez. We've been rehashing this stuff for decades and it's not moving much in the Christian right's favor.

Focus on the the economy and crime and war. When Democrats lose, I want them to lose because Republicans did better jobs of convincing the public about their solutions to real world problems. Not because a given candidate seemed to be more right with Jeebus.

 

that was a refreshing read. At the least I'd love to have more of his common sense thoughts involved in the upcoming political conversation.

STOMP

 

seems to me the solution to this political quandary is to have a moderate candidate joined with a Tea Party VP candidate

then once (by hook or by crook) they get the ticket elected the moderate meets an untimely death or suffers an epiphany and the business gets done to the US

STOMP

 

Why?

 

Been a fan of his for a few months, and considered him when I wrote my post.