and for the record, I do tend to agree with you in regards to both candidates. Contrary to what BirdBrain thinks, I haven't criticized Kasich because I think he'd be terrible at the job, but because he is making himself unelectable. You aren't going to win the votes of Republicans by claiming the Iran deal "was not so bad" and that they should simply live with it. He may do well with that kind of rhetoric in the GE, but only well enough do still get slaughtered by Hillary. The GOP has tried nominating "electable" candidates the last two times out and look how well that has worked for them.
The one thing the outsiders bring to the table is the fact that they don't owe anybody in Washington anything and that they "might" be above selling out to big business, and before anyone spits out their coffee, I am not saying "I" believe that, anymore than I believed that Obama was anything else but yet another lying cheating politician with a suntan. Two last things, I did get a chuckle out of the thought of either Kasich or especially Clinton doing the first thing about changing the corrupt culture in Washington after all the decades the two of them have spent there, and secondly I do appreciate the fact that Carly isn't mentioned as the third outsider "with a chance" There is one thing to being a political neophyte, it's quite another when you sucked in the private sector as wellIt ought to be clear to everyone with even a pea sized brain that Trump and Carson are both bullshitting their way through the Republican primaries. Carson sells books, Trump sells his name brand/image, all done with secret service protection at taxpayer expense. What's actually unbelievable is they both account for about 50% of the popular vote among Republicans. After watching both Carson and Trump at the last two Republican debates, it's obvious they are both bereft of any intelligent policy ideas.
Less than three months before the kickoff Iowa caucuses, there is growing anxiety bordering on panic among Republican elites about the dominance and durability of Donald Trump and Ben Carson and widespread bewilderment over how to defeat them.
Party leaders and donors fear that nominating either man would have negative ramifications for the GOP ticket up and down the ballot, virtually ensuring a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency and increasing the odds that the Senate falls into Democratic hands.
The party establishment is paralyzed. Big money is still on the sidelines. No consensus alternative to the outsiders has emerged from the pack of governors and senators running, and there is disagreement about how to prosecute the case against them. Recent focus groups of Trump supporters in Iowa and New Hampshire commissioned by rival campaigns revealed no silver bullet.
Not that I claim either Carson or Trump has such great ideas, but when comparing them to the other candidates, do any of the other candidates really have any better command of the issues, or better plans to fix what is wrong the country than do the non politicians?
Keep in mind, it was career politicians that got us into our current mess, How much worse could an outsider possibly perform?
Is there really a candidate from either party that anyone here truly is 100% behind? I don't see a great leader emerging from either side of the aisle. Do you?
........I however can't see these two doing much to change the corrupt culture in Washington, which is completely beholden to special interests, and I probably will not vote!
Keep in mind, it was career politicians that got us into our current mess, How much worse could an outsider possibly perform?
Is there really a candidate from either party that anyone here truly is 100% behind? I don't see a great leader emerging from either side of the aisle. Do you?
and for the record, I do tend to agree with you in regards to both candidates. Contrary to what BirdBrain thinks, I haven't criticized Kasich because I think he'd be terrible at the job, but because he is making himself unelectable. You aren't going to win the votes of Republicans by claiming the Iran deal "was not so bad" and that they should simply live with it. He may do well with that kind of rhetoric in the GE, but only well enough do still get slaughtered by Hillary. The GOP has tried nominating "electable" candidates the last two times out and look how well that has worked for them.
The one thing the outsiders bring to the table is the fact that they don't owe anybody in Washington anything and that they "might" be above selling out to big business, and before anyone spits out their coffee, I am not saying "I" believe that, anymore than I believed that Obama was anything else but yet another lying cheating politician with a suntan.
Two last things, I did get a chuckle out of the thought of either Kasich or especially Clinton doing the first thing about changing the corrupt culture in Washington after all the decades the two of them have spent there, and secondly I do appreciate the fact that Carly isn't mentioned as the third outsider "with a chance" There is one thing to being a political neophyte, it's quite another when you sucked in the private sector as well
Every time I get a haircut I look goofy! Instead of going to any more barbers I'm going to have my provider cut my hair! She's never been a hairstylist or anything, and has never cut hair before, so I figure she'll do a top-notch job 'cause she's totally unspoiled!