Who should be the next president?

[indianasmith]

Ronnie Merchant for President!!!!!!



(or, maybe not  )

[bob]

Ronnie Merchant for President!!!!!!



(or, maybe not  )

I'd vote for him 

[lester1/2jr]

Born in Transylvania so not eligible

[indianasmith]

The thing is, I would like to BE President.
I just don't want to RUN for President.

Like, if the VP died and the President appointed me to that slot, then resigned and handed me the office - that would be awesome!

[HappyGilmore]

I'd be good with Rand Paul.

[bob]

How is Trump still leading in the polls?

[indianasmith]

He has a hard core of supporters (I call them Trump Chumps) who are blind to the fact that he's been a liberal most of his life, that he has no serious policy proposals, and that he is unelectable.  All they see is "he tells it like it is" (which in fact he doesn't), and they like that (possibly because they are jerks like him - the one person I know who is the most avid Trump supporter is also the biggest jerk I know!).  I really think he has peaked, as the field narrows, a more reasonable and likable choice will emerge on the GOP side.  I just hope Trump hasn't sabotaged us so badly at that point that we can't win (although I think that may actually be his plan).  It kinda sucks, because we have a really strong field otherwise! LOL

[lester1/2jr]

[Skull]

He has a hard core of supporters (I call them Trump Chumps) who are blind to the fact that he's been a liberal most of his life, that he has no serious policy proposals, and that he is unelectable.  All they see is "he tells it like it is" (which in fact he doesn't), and they like that (possibly because they are jerks like him - the one person I know who is the most avid Trump supporter is also the biggest jerk I know!).  I really think he has peaked, as the field narrows, a more reasonable and likable choice will emerge on the GOP side.  I just hope Trump hasn't sabotaged us so badly at that point that we can't win (although I think that may actually be his plan).  It kinda sucks, because we have a really strong field otherwise! LOL

LOL LOL LOL

I'm leaning to support Trump too and my wife said "I was raised by jerks."


I think the appeal of Trump is deeper then Trump. The American people spoke in 2010 and they were silenced by the IRS during the 2012 election, and they spoke again in 2014 - and for 6 months the Republican Party had done nothing. In fact, we could say that the Republican Party was a mirror to the Democrats.

At first I thought Trump was a joke. Well, I realized I was wrong in the first 30 mins on Rush's show when Trumps announcements overshadows Bushes announcement. Because Rush couldn't stop talking about Trump. Then I told myself 'Omg, Trump was a freaking genius because he's getting free air time and he's overshadowing Bush.'

I keep on hearing others are saying Trump is going to allow Hillary to win (especially if he becomes a 3rd party). I have doubts. Only because I don't believe the American people were that Angry with Bush (41) because they realized he no Reagan. Bill Clinton needed a ringer. In fact, 41 did a successful job with the gulf war.

Hillary is not doing anything to boost her support, in fact, she it being beaten out by Bernie Sanders.

This election is going to be much different. I'm picturing Trump vs Sanders vs Bush. Although, the only people that will be voting for Bush is wallstreet people and I don't think they have the numbers to compete with Trump or Sanders.

[indianasmith]

Jeb leaves me totally lukewarm, but Trump just makes me mad.
He's all hot air and talking points and whenever anyone points that out, he either pouts or calls them stupid.
His comments about Megyn Kelly were beyond the pale.  I'm from the South, you don't talk to ladies like that!
Right now everybody is all: "Oh, he's the front runner!"

He's the front runner in a field of SEVENTEEN.  At most, he's got a third of the party behind him, and I think that
figure is grossly inflated.  His mouth is his worst enemy; he's going to keep saying stupid stuff and make people
mad.  We have so many MUCH better choices this year.  It grieves me that so many conservatives are turning
to this narcissistic, obnoxious blowhard.

If by some miracle he does get the nomination, I will either sit it out or write in Great Cthulhu.

[Skull]

Actually, people had been talking about 3rd party the very day after the 2012 election when the Republican party decided to allow Obama's Amnesty (by allowing federal funding)... The dirty truth is, if it wasn't for Trump, the American people (those that voted in 2010/12) would be looking for somebody that's not Republican or Democrat.

I would like to see Scott Walker call out Obama... but I'm having doubts that anybody but Trump is going to call out Obama.  But we'll see what happens when Obama veto's a treaty (Really a president has this much freaking power!!!!) [I think it's stupid that there is a debate on this Iran BS - the paper says it gives Iran total freedom to make a bomb while we cannot stop them! and the beauty is that we are giving Iran billions of dollars so they can ATTACK US! Holy s**t talk about being angry!]

[Derf]

I was listening to an NPR program that made some interesting comparisons of Trump in this election with Ross Perot. They are/were both rich enough to fund themselves, neither filtered their speech because the public viewed them as the crazy guy saying what they (the public) was already thinking (in many cases, at least). Since neither of them are career politicians, they garnered support for not being the establishment. Perot ended up running as his own party. Trump is threatening the same. The ultimate weirdness would be another Clinton/Bush/Crazy Person contest. I pray that doesn't happen, since I could not in any way support any of those options, but it is looking like a real possibility. It is sad that we can't seem to find anyone who has the ability to truly lead, like another Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, or Reagan. Love or hate their platforms, they were all inspirational leaders that gave the country someone to rally behind (okay, so maybe Lincoln got only half the country behind him while the other half tried to quit, but he brought them back through a horrible time).

[HappyGilmore]

Actually, people had been talking about 3rd party the very day after the 2012 election when the Republican party decided to allow Obama's Amnesty (by allowing federal funding)... The dirty truth is, if it wasn't for Trump, the American people (those that voted in 2010/12) would be looking for somebody that's not Republican or Democrat.

I would like to see Scott Walker call out Obama... but I'm having doubts that anybody but Trump is going to call out Obama.  But we'll see what happens when Obama veto's a treaty (Really a president has this much freaking power!!!!) [I think it's stupid that there is a debate on this Iran BS - the paper says it gives Iran total freedom to make a bomb while we cannot stop them! and the beauty is that we are giving Iran billions of dollars so they can ATTACK US! Holy s**t talk about being angry!]

I honestly feel the Libertarian Party is growing by the day.  I may be biased though.  That's where my allegiance lies.  But people call me crazy.  Last debates I was all over Ron Paul and Gary Johnson. 

[bob]

I think I'm going to be backing Bernie Saunders.

[indianasmith]

I just can't go with socialism.  Particularly not when we are already nearly $20 trillion in debt.