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Renew Deal

(81,866 posts)
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:34 AM Dec 2015

Who will be the republican nominee?

Last edited Sat Dec 26, 2015, 09:55 AM - Edit history (3)


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Bush
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Carson
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Christie
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Cruz
1 (10%)
Kasich
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Paul
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Rubio
2 (20%)
Trump
6 (60%)
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Who will be the republican nominee? (Original Post) Renew Deal Dec 2015 OP
Don't care. tazkcmo Dec 2015 #1
Not all Renew Deal Dec 2015 #2
They will surely try some sort of October surprise. lpbk2713 Dec 2015 #3
I remember. tazkcmo Dec 2015 #4
Keep reading the RNC is begging Romney KentuckyWoman Dec 2015 #6
Needs "Dating Game" music... JHB Dec 2015 #5
Trump unless he decides to admit that he was just goofing on everyone. Warren Stupidity Dec 2015 #7
I pass because I am unable to read clearly the malice and ignorance of the Republican Base. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2015 #8
The one with the biggestg schlong? Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2015 #9
Pretty sure that rules out Trump. n/t zappaman Dec 2015 #10
As of this moment Trump looks likely - but I don't know how some many big Douglas Carpenter Dec 2015 #11

lpbk2713

(42,760 posts)
3. They will surely try some sort of October surprise.
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:48 AM
Dec 2015



No matter who their candidate is they will come up with some sort of desperate scam in the last few weeks (remember the Swift Boaters?). So no matter how well positioned the Dem candidate might look, depend on the GOP to pull last ditch dirty tricks out of their bag.

tazkcmo

(7,300 posts)
4. I remember.
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:52 AM
Dec 2015

That's why I support a candidate with a proven track record of integrity versus a sniper dodging, suddenly evolving, anointed one.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
8. I pass because I am unable to read clearly the malice and ignorance of the Republican Base.
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 11:53 AM
Dec 2015

I must be getting old.

Douglas Carpenter

(20,226 posts)
11. As of this moment Trump looks likely - but I don't know how some many big
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 01:13 PM
Dec 2015

named Republicans can handle that or how they can back away from some of the harsher criticisms many of them have made. Some are actually warming to the idea of Ted Cruz although - on the personal level - as George W. Bush said, "I just don't like the guy." It doesn't seem that Rubio is really taking off - although it seems that he might have a better chance of unifying the party than most of the others - popular with the Tea Party crowd - or at least somewhat popular until recently - yet acceptable to the party leadership. It seems that the Tea Party types and white Evangelical types want someone who is unacceptable to the official Party leadership.

It has not happened is several decades - But could the GOP end up with a brokered convention? A friend of mine suggested that if that happened and it went to a number of ballots - maybe Paul Ryan would be the ideal compromise candidate - I guess that kind of makes sense. - Popular with the Tea Party crowd and the white Evangelicals and still acceptable to the Party leadership. Still I don't know how much the Trump thing is a total personality cult - someone who has such a spell over his followers that they just plain will not accept anyone except him?

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