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Elections GOP Road to 2016 Primary Thread

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ShoelessRye said:
He's dangerous because he does things he doesn't run on. All of the Wisconsin GOP have a secret agenda - but Wisconsin is stupid enough to keep re-electing them then they get what they deserve. Fool me once - shame on you, fool me twice - shame on me, fool me three times??

But his union busting will play VERY WELL in the GOP Primary. He'll frame himself as the new Reagan.
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It'll frame well in the GOP but he'll get murdered by any of the potential Ds in the GE
 
In New Hampshire, Marco Rubio leaves a footprint
On Tuesday, with temperatures below zero, 25 College Republicans from Saint Anselm College met privately with Marco Rubio at 7:30 a.m. The Florida senator’s small-group visit immediately won the support of Shane Archambault, a 20-year-old sophomore.
“We obviously want a candidate who can win elections,” he said. “I think it would be tough for somebody named Jeb Bush to win the election, especially because of how many people disliked his brother at the end.”
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Poll: Iowa Caucus Participants Lean Toward Walker
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An early look at next year
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Trump says he is serious about 2016 bid, is hiring staff and delaying TV gig
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This time, Donald J. Trump says, he really means it.

The billionaire real-estate mogul — long amounting to a one-man circus sideshow in GOP presidential politics — said in an interview Wednesday that he is “more serious” than ever about pursuing a run for the White House in 2016.

In recent days, Trump said, he has hired staffers in key primary states, retained an election attorney and delayed signing on for another season as host of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice” because of his political projects.
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Looks like someone wants attention... again.
 
What does someone like Donald Trump actually get from entering the running for President? I can't imagine he could ever get far into it, or that he's going to have much of any support, there's got to be some gain to doing so though.
 
Ayin said:
What does someone like Donald Trump actually get from entering the running for President? I can't imagine he could ever get far into it, or that he's going to have much of any support, there's got to be some gain to doing so though.
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He says he is going to run every year so he makes the news. He is an attention whore. Even if it doesn't bring him in money (which I think he does ultimately make money from it cause it builds his name more for his media shows like the apprentice), it satisfies his need to be talked about. He is going to be in the D-level tier for candidates that wouldn't even reach the debates if he did it.
 
Jeb Bush Wouldn't Hesitate to Start 'Third Bush War'
Jeb Bush may be his own man, but that would not stop him from starting a war in the Middle East like his father and brother before him.

Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show on Wednesday, Bush said that his family legacy would not be a factor in how he would handle potential military conflicts if the safety of the American people was at risk.

Asked by Hewitt whether he would be "overly cautious about using force for fear of having a 'third Bush war' occur," Bush was resolute.
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The leading German language website SPIEGEL Online has made a ranking of the Top 10 Republican candidates according to their chances of nomination. Maybe it's interesting for some to read an outside view with the help of some Google Translate:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausla...ehn-republikaner-gegen-clinton-a-1020080.html



10. Bobby Jindal
9. Rick Santorum
8. Ben Carson
7. Mike Huckabee
6. Ted Cruz
5. Chris Christie
4. Marco Rubio
3. Rand Paul
2. Scott Walker
1. Jeb Bush
 
JDragon said:
The leading German language website SPIEGEL Online has made a ranking of the Top 10 Republican candidates according to their chances of nomination. Maybe it's interesting for some to read an outside view with the help of some Google Translate:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausla...ehn-republikaner-gegen-clinton-a-1020080.html



10. Bobby Jindal
9. Rick Santorum
8. Ben Carson
7. Mike Huckabee
6. Ted Cruz
5. Chris Christie
4. Marco Rubio
3. Rand Paul
2. Scott Walker
1. Jeb Bush
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I feel like Kasich should be included somewhere but he hasn't talked much so his poll numbers are low among possible candidates.
 
Rand Paul just unloaded on Jeb Bush for being 'hypocritical' about weed

Both Paul and Bush are considering running for president in 2016. Citing Bush's admission last month that he smoked the drug while attending the elite Andover boarding school in Massachusetts, Paul said Bush should support legalizing medical marijuana.

"I think if you talk to young people, they're not very tolerant of hypocrisy," Paul said when asked whether Bush will gain traction among younger voters. "Jeb Bush admits that — when he was at an elite prep school, where very wealthy kids went to school — that he smoked pot. But he's still willing to put someone in jail for medical marijuana in Florida. ... When Jeb was a very wealthy kid at a very elite school, he used marijuana but didn't get caught [and] didn't have to go to prison. I think it shows some hypocrisy."
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Well deserved criticism imo. Hope we hear something like this in the debates. Rand is going to be able to discuss libertarian ideals far better than his father since he is less ideological than him.
 
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GhostZ06 said:
know one even cared or knew who jeb was until the media started clogging up the air waves with him. Still people don't know or care who he is
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It made him the #1 or 2 guy in the polls. I'm still amazed people cling to him that quick just because of his name. And the people who do care about and know Jeb are big campaign donors which matters a lot at this stage.
 
Christie Emerges as Bush Basher of the Right
Pointedly criticizing his chief rival, Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie portrayed himself as a Washington outsider who won't buckle to criticism from the media, and as a man who is unafraid to say what he thinks is right.

Bush is "definitely the frontrunner" if "the elites in Washington" who make "backroom deals" decide the nomination, Christie told the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday in National Harbor, Md. "If the people of the United States decide to pick the next president of the United States and they want someone who looks at them in the eye, connects with them and is one of them, I'll do OK," Christie added.
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So Rand goes out of his way to mention Jeb's elite prep school for wealthy kids twice in one sentence and Christie says elites in Washington want Jeb Bush.

Gee, I wonder if "Elitist Jeb Bush is an elitist" polled well as an attack against him.

Chris Christie was not even invited to speak at CPAC last year - funny how that works.
 
ShoelessRye said:
So Rand goes out of his way to mention Jeb's elite prep school for wealthy kids twice in one sentence and Christie says elites in Washington want Jeb Bush.

Gee, I wonder if "Elitist Jeb Bush is an elitist" polled well as an attack against him.

Chris Christie was not even invited to speak at CPAC last year - funny how that works.
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It's even weirder considering he was higher in the 2016 polls at that time.

I think the debates are really going to be great if Christie is there. He's going to talk trash for sure and he easily has a bad enough record to have it thrown back at him.
 
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