I smell a Trump/Cruz ticket or Cruz/Trump ticket. Then we’re really screwed.[/quote]
Yikes.
Great quote from Louis C.K.:
“If you are a true conservative. Don’t vote for Trump. He is not one of you. He is one of him.”
And Cruz: Too obstructionist even for the “party of no.” Ouch.
Hillary is too much in Wall Street’s pocket, and she’s too focus-group driven, and her vision for the country seems somewhat fuzzy. Her honesty takes more hits than it should, in my opinion. She doesn’t seem any less honest than your average politician. Which is to say, pretty dishonest. And the right-wing attacks on her regarding the Benghazi situation are nonsense. She’s tough, brilliant, and has tons of stamina. Would she be a great president? Probably not. A good one? I’d say there’s a good chance of that. A disaster? Probably not.
Trump would be a disaster, it seems to me.
And Cruz would be a huge step backward. I predict that by as soon as 2020, and 2024 at the latest, profoundly conservative politicians like Cruz will be dinosaurs. Especially if Cruz wins in 2016 and the younger Americans get energized by their disgust for him and what he stands for.[/quote]
I never thought I’d agree with you ever on politics. But I agree with you.
My concern at this point isn’t so much about the white house next term. My concern is the GOP loses not only the white house, but the Senate too. I don’t like our government when one party dominates, and it concerns me more that with Hillary at the helm, and with the justice appointments (I’d settle for moderates), we need some sort of checks and balances in Congress.
That said, I think the GOP party as it stands is finished. It really needs to abandon some of the far right side lunatics and start taking a more moderate stance on social issues. Some of the far right side thinking is just, frankly, obsolete in the 21st century. As Lincoln once said, a house divided against itself cannot stand.
I think a Trump/Cruz or a Cruz/Trump ticket is coming though. Trump + anyone else would alienate all the Cruz voters. And a Cruz+ anyone else would alienate all the trump voters. Cruz+Trump or Trump+Cruz, people would probably get behind. And trump and cruz is smart enough to realize this. The Democrats might really have a big problem at hand if this happens.
Contrast this with a Hillary/Bernie ticket. Bernie has some good ideas for the well being of people, BUT all his thinking is way to extreme for a leader of the U.S. It’s best he serves in an advisory role, where some of his radical thinking can trickle through our system and get adopted piece-wise.
A Hillary/Bernie ticket would destroy the Democrat’s chances, so that isn’t going to happen. Hillary better pick someone else, preferably a no-name person. Which then begs the question… I wonder who Hillary’s running mate will be?
