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Monday, February 16, 2015

Hayes: A Herd of Elephants

It’s still two years before the next president takes the oath of office, but the contest that will determine who raises his right hand that day started in earnest last month for Republicans, with a grassroots gathering in Iowa and a meeting of high-dollar donors in California.

With that, it’s time for my highly anticipated ranking of the Republican primary field. Okay, okay—that might be a stretch. These are probably unanticipated rankings. But with the Iowa caucuses less than a year away Republicans across the country are already abuzz about the possibilities. The assessments below are based on dozens of conversations with grassroots conservatives in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina; with Republican officeholders at virtually every level of government; with national Republican strategists, fund-raisers, and operatives; with advisers and consultants to the emerging campaigns; and in several cases with the candidates themselves.

So in reverse order—from least likely to most likely—here’s a look at the prospective GOP nominees.

Donald Trump. Trump seems convinced that there is a groundswell of support for a Trump White House. And he seems confident, well, about pretty much everything. “Over the years I’ve participated in many battles and have really almost come out very, very victorious every single time,” he once said. “I’ve beaten many people and companies, and I’ve won many wars. I have fairly but intelligently earned many billions of dollars, which in a sense was both a scorecard and acknowledgment of my abilities.” Clown show.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If Trump is a clown show what is Obama? Who would you rather have as president right now between those two? The worst choice in the lot is light years ahead of our Muslim communist dictator. Well, maybe Bush is only slightly better, but just sayin...

Anonymous said...

Well, well, well; the Koch Brothers will finally pay their billions of dollars into the white house. That's too bad because I was looking forward to an honest republican who was NOT paid for by the Koch Brothers. And, the sad thing, I am a register democrat. Big Businesses, politicians, the Koch and their cronies are so corrupted. Buying an election is the worse thing to do for this country. Maybe ISIS need to arrive to put them all out of their misery.