POTUS race has obstacles the GOP can’t overcome
As I look down the long list of GOP candidates who have stepped onto the campaign trail to the White House, I’m quite the ecstatic liberal that thus far the Republicans don’t have a single good contender running for President.
They’ve had eight full years to come up with a candidate and unsurprisingly they’ve got nobody worth a damn. Nada. Zilch. Eight years of endless griping, fear-mongering, and shooting down everything the President proposes but not a single leader among them.
I’m not surprised by this at all, as much as the “leaders” of the party do cut down the President for his policy, they don’t have plans of their own as to how the country should be run. They only think they know how not to run the country and that’s kind of a problem for a candidate whom half the country is looking at for leadership.
But half the country is actually rooting for these guys <sigh>.
There are twenty-three GOP candidates running thus far, and not a single clue between them. A handful of others are still “exploring” and will most likely run.
My early predictions have me thinking that we’ll be saddled with either Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio or Scott Walker as a nominee (he hasn’t announced but polls high). Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry and Donald Trump, to name a few, definitely do not have a chance. Huffington Post’s interactive polling guide (which updates every time a new poll is released) shows that it’s literally anybody’s game between the first and second tier. One day Ben Carson is on top by a mere single digit point lead, the next Rubio, then Walker and the top-tier candidates all have about 10 percent support each. The second tier have about five percent each and the third have a lowly two percent or lower. There is a fourth tier but they don’t even register on polls.
What I think is really happening with all the sharks in the pool is that they’re trying to disappear into the crowd to hide their crazy and win with only marginal support — and it really doesn’t matter who wins, because they’re literally all the same. No one really stands out for having drastically different beliefs or approaches to leadership.
They’re like a school of fish, only they’re all sharks and are fighting over the same piece of meat. They’re all the exact same level of stupid, evil, corrupt and terrible. There are no tepid, moderate contenders who seem willing to compromise with the left-wing on anything the left-wing cares about.
And what does the right-wing steadfastly stand for? Denying climate change and staying dependent on coal and oil.
They are pushing an agenda to overturn women’s rights to abortions and birth control and equal pay. They are all still into denying LGBT rights even though gay marriage is legal in most states and the majority of the country now supports rights and protections for the LGBT community.
They are pushing for religious “freedom” which means the freedom to discriminate against people they don’t like (like those icky gays, Muslims and Atheists).
And guns, guns, guns — many of the candidates actually oppose any sort of restriction on gun ownership including something as simple as registration. All of them support as few restrictions as possible.
Most seem to be beating the war drum for ISIS, which means if they win we’ll be bungled up in the Middle East for another decade. Kiss amnesty good-bye.
All seem to want to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, which is a terrible idea considering it’s working out for millions of Americans. It’ll be interesting to see whether or not their hard stances against the program have changed, but I’m guessing not. That or they’ll lie until they get to office and then gut the program.
Most importantly, zero of the Republican candidates care about wealth-inequality. They don’t care that Americans are working full-time, or multiple jobs and are still on government assistance, or the fact seniors are living on $7,000 a year, or about homeless veterans or homelessness in general. All oppose raising the minimum wage, because their corporate masters oppose it, yet all are against any form of government assistance and they won’t acknowledge that they can’t have it both ways. This is a key issue for an overwhelming number of Americans. They simply don’t have the guts to stand up to vulture capitalists.
If they can’t lead or compromise with all types of people, they just aren’t Presidential material.
So besides the obvious obstacle of an overstocked pond, how can they possibly expect to lead a country that is full of poor people, women, LGBT folks, Atheists (which now outnumber Protestants and Catholics), environmentalists, science-lovers, victims of gun violence and those against another war? They simply can’t, and that’s great for the Democrats because Democrats have shown time and time again they can compromise with the right-wing on certain issues, but it’s a MAJOR obstacle for the right-wing.
It’s a lesson they should learn from Mitt Romney’s campaign. His remarks about not taking care of the 47 percent who will never vote probably completely dashed any shred of hope he had for the Presidency. The fact that Romney’s buddies in this election are making the same error of only trying to gain support from half the country really is a gift.
The Republicans have also become ultra-exclusive.
After Obama was elected, the Republicans ran around shooting themselves in their feet. They pulled much further to the right, teetering on the edge of becoming Libertarian, and the Koch’s played a major part in the shift. But America is liberal by nature, even if half the country can only speak in Fox News talking points.
They like their social security, and their medicare, and their social safety nets. A good majority of people on government assistance are Conservative. They like what their taxes do for them for the most part, and they wouldn’t like it if corporations were allowed to chip away at workers rights. Their kids go to public school and they should be outrages when Republicans strip education funding.
No matter what right-wing voters say, they like these safeguards and benefits. All of which are in danger should a Republican in the current climate become President, and that’s enough for any moderate to vote Democrat. They are simply too much of a threat to too many good programs and ideas in America.
Now, Republicans think they have it in the bag. After all, they are in the majority in the House and Senate, they’ve been running a somewhat successful smear campaign of Hillary Clinton (the Democrats best chance thus far) and they know far-left liberals are threatening to stay home if Clinton gets the nomination because they’re Sanders fans. Which may end up proving successful for the GOP, but if they do win the election, how can they possibly lead the country without causing some sort of mutiny?
If perhaps they did win by some cruel twist of fate, it would help their party move back towards the center and end all this crazy they’ve put our country through in the last eight years. They’re just going to have a tough time convincing Americans which one of them is capable, or at least, not as stupid as the rest of them.
And good luck with that.
I honestly can’t think of which among them it will be, but they have an uphill battle that’s only going to get steeper the more they open their mouths and ignore their focus group research. The best we can do as informed voters is hold them accountable for their pasts if they try to flip-flop to the White House. Make sure their voting base knows the kind of crazy they’re about to cast a ballot for.
And, if you’re up there God, please send us a ‘Mitt Romney 47 percent’ gaffe a month before the election. That’s all we want is a video of Jeb smearing peanut butter all over his body and letting his brother’s dog lick it off, or Rand Paul without his wig. Something. Anything to ensure we don’t lose the nation’s most powerful seat when Obama leaves.
Our country simply cannot have a GOP President. It can’t happen. Don’t let it happen.
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Love the photo. Let’s hope they all INHALE!
It would only be funny if it didn’t have the the apocalyptic consequence of having such an idiot running a country like this one.
Oh really? Pray tell of this apocalypse.
Well, they could throw us into another war, for starters, that would put us in more debt. They could also deregulate Wall Street and THEY could throw us into a depression with irresponsible and predatory methods. They could lessen environmental regulations and increase the destruction of the natural world. They could eliminate education standards so the bible-thumper states can drag us down to third-world levels of under-education. These people simply won’t help us compete with the rest of the world.
The Republican clowns should donate their losing campaign money to the poor,
Something Democrats would never think of, Democrats always want someone else to pay.
Then you aren’t capable of rational thought at all if you don’t put down the Repuke Kool-Aid and realize that they have sold the GOP and a great deal of the country to Charles and David KochRoach. Money much? ROFLMAO What an idiot!
And George Soros and Foreign Money from has nothing to do with it right?
Yes Democrats want other people to also pay their taxes the same way the 99% do, so we can SHARE the costs of running this country
Well then how about your people like Al Sharpen and the your people that work for the IRS paying their taxes. The one percenters pay more than the 99% ever thought of paying. Again we have Liberal Democrats attacking success, what this Country has been built on.
They actually don’t, because they avoid their taxes in various different ways.
That will NEVER happen. Part of why they run is the $$
And Hildebeast is better than them???? She’s been beaten before you know.
Hildebeast? That is so mature - name calling.
FYI, YES Hiliary is far better than any GOP candidate.
And the way she lies to everyone is SO MATURE as well - how the F can you respect someone like that. Ok what are her accomplishments other than flying around in a jet??????????????
lol, only the ones who claim to be “Christian.” Then watch the show of “Conservative Compassion” come rushing out.
That peanut-butter thing, that actually happened to a friend of a friend of mine’s, only it was his friend’s sister it actually happened to.
ehhh, hillary’s got some of the same corporate masters as these gop clowns, and though she wouldn’t dive whole-hog into adopting retrograde social policies, she’s more than likely going to keep her party to the right of eisenhower on issues like trillion-dollar student loan debt, labor rights, a livable minimum wage and truly affordable healthcare. though he’s a bit wonky on gun rights and foreign policy, sanders really is the only major-party candidate running who stands for something other than lesser-evilism.
great article… thank you for the truth-telling
100 times more diversity than Democrats ever thought of having. The non inclusive Democrats have nothing to offer anymore. Their programs for the last 60 plus years have put this Country in dire straights and it must be corrected.
Democrats have been POTUS for the past 60 years? Weird.
Way to sight even one example. And the GOP has diversity? See,it’s people like you who have zero shame or standards that make this country so screwed up. I wretch at the thought of what you think the GOP is doing or has EVER done to move this country forward in a positive direction. You must despise America with a burning passion to think the Democrats are the ones to pout this country in “dire straights”, especially when EVERY leading indicator (job growth, education, equality, enviromental issues, health issues, war, etc.) shows that the Democrats are the ONLY people taking us in a positive direction. All Republicans have EVER done is hurt the poor and sick, pollute the country (and air and oceans), give our taxes to the rich and corporations, lie us into unneeded/unfunded wars, and generally drag us kicking and screaming back to pre-Civil War times.
You are certainly full of it.
another thought, do us all a favor and don’t have another thought.
Oh I will when it come to you Hypocrites and attack artists.
Gee, nice “analysis” there Jenna. It’s tripe like this that makes it rather difficult to take libnuts like you seriously. Oh, and Bill Clinton disagrees with you. He recently told Jake Tapper that he finds the field of Republican presidential candidates to be impressive: “They’ve got a lot of youth, they’ve got a lot of energy, they’ve got some significant diversity and they’re no dummies…”
http://www.cnn.Com/2015/06/14/politics/bill-clinton-republicans-2016-presidential-race/
You clearly don’t understand what Bill is doing there, do you?
It’s called “managing expectations”, making the opposition seem more formidable than it really is in order to rally the troops and make our inevitable victory look more impressive.
It’s no wonder that Republicans look like morons, when they can’t even figure out transparent political tricks like this.
When the DNC released a statement that Donald Trump brings much-needed seriousness to the Republican field, you didn’t know they were being facetious, did you.
You give the dems too much credit, and their opposition far too little. One of the many libnut Achilles heels.
Oh, look, another Repuke idiot! Go back and watch FOX FAUX NOOZE. You sure won’t learn something, but then you Repukes are allergic to education, so all the better. How does it feel to be a tool of men who HATE YOU??? Unless you’re a billionaire, of course.
Gop Lemmings…lmfao
Exactly. The #1 problem with the Republican Party is that there isn’t a single “moderate” left in the party, and every single candidate that is running in the GOP is a far-right ideolouge hellbent on forcing the country to the radical extreme. When you look at Bernie Sanders, no objective person can call him a “far-left extremist”, as his views are firmly in the “basic” left that is the ideology of the liberal/progressive movement. There is not, nor has there ever truly been a “far left” in this country, at least as far as politics or a polictical system/class. Both Clintons and Obama can only be described as “center-left”, which sadly is where most Democrats find or identify themselves, and thus allows the mainstream media to move the needle even farther to the right.
Yes and Hillary is a “champion” - please. Obama got us in the toilet and Hitlary will flush this country down it.
Did you misspell Hillary’s name or are you making a stupid joke no one gets?
Hitlary?
Don’t like it???? Don’t go away mad just go away.
Why? Because you made a typo? That’s doesn’t make me mad.
About that photo in the headline: Worst salmon run ever!
Obstacles? You under-estimate the “merikan voters when a bush is running.
The money spent on these campaign could feed entire nations.
I agree-all the GOP contenders sound the same. And they’re all bad for the country.
Oh, and the Democrats have good candidates? Like crybaby (I don’t have millions anymore) Clinton? Oh my lord.
“But America is liberal by nature” - Every poll says otherwise.
Among them, two highly regarded surgeons, two very successful CEO’s top in their field. Governors (3 or 4 of those)… Saying there are few brain cells among them is simply ingenuous nut house talk. At least if you want the discussion, start out on an honest foot (preferably not in your mouth).
You’re a dense nut job! 😉 But you did make me laugh.