Who's your pick?

I'm with Blazer Bob on this one, it's just way too early to know who is going to emerge in the race and what deep, dark blobs of schlock the media and the opponents will haul up out of each others past. Factor in the Millennials and the rest of the OWS/entitlement crowd and the past 8 years of bread an circuses and I think the majority of our fellow countrymen will want more of the same and Hillary is just the man for the job.

I would like to see a Rubio/Fiorina or a Rubio/Ryan campaign but even with Fiorina being a California Republican I can't see that swaying enough Independants and/or disaffected Millennials for it to really matter. All I know for sure is that come election day 2016 I'll vote for the person with the (R) behind their name, assuming King Barry doesn't change the law and post an executive order making him President/King/Emperor for life.

Regardless, the US of A is no longer the preeminent Superpower on the planet. China is likely to show their military and economic might in the next decade, Iran will have the bomb soon (if they don't already), and the world is a less stable place than it has been since the height of the cold war.

Paul Ryan told Hugh Hewitt a few months ago that he wasn't going to run. Wanted to work on the budget. Ryan keeps being reelected in a 50/50 district so Wisconsin voters don't see him as a radical.

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OK, I'll try one more time since my question is obviously confusing or unclear... IF you all were in Vegas and I GAVE YOU $100 to place a bet on which GOP candidate would win the nomination, who would it be? It's not who you would vote for necessarily, you may NEVER vote for an R, it's just your best guess before the debates start.

If you decided to not accept my free $100 bill to place a free bet on your best guess, why? Are you all so afraid that a wrong guess will somehow make you look stupid? I just don't understand why this is so difficult... it's just for fun.

ScienceChic wrote: Sorry Rick, didn't realize that was what your were aiming for.

In that case, I go with Jeb Bush because political parties don't learn from their mistakes.

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I was confused too, if I had to bet on it, I have to pick Jeb too.

Rand Paul is too libertarian for moderate Republicans.

I'll go with Scott Walker. I think he is presidential, has actual governing experience, and been successful in a democratic area.

I think Bush won't make it because pretty much everyone I know doesn't want us to have "royalty" in the office. Both dems and reps I know want no more Clinton or Bush.

A Quinnipiac poll released this week has Rand Paul beating Hillary in Colorado 44/41. Think Colorado is more libertarian than corporate statist? Or does Hillary just have a bad name here?