I like Ted, but he didn't vote on TPP because he had to do a fund raiser. He wasn't elected to the Senate to raise funds to run for President. He should have done his job. I think he's a better fit for the Supreme Court.

Cruz is my man, too.
However, considering Carson's
absolute void of political expericence,
I'd pick JINDAL as a second.
What say you?!

And we need another warmonger.

Character and integrity.

Wow.

Character and integrity? What have you been smoking? Carson and Cruz have way too much of both to be considered electable in this environment. Let us find a smarmy, political hack or a bland neophyte and hoist him/her to the highest office in the land. (See Obama for example). Thats how we do it. Ugh.

I've been supporting Carly Fiorina since before she announced. She has character and, more important, she is fearless. And she speaks in the language of common sense. On the View, she shut Whoopie Golberg up and forced her to go to commercial. And the other night she turned Chris Mathews into a whimpering school boy and sent him to the MSNBC woodshed. She may become our "Iron Lady".

"I've been supporting Carly Fiorina...."
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There's something wrong with this persons circuit board.

It desires to be ruled.

How do people get this way?

What a shame.

Cruz/Carson '16 or Carson/Cruz '16. I'm good with either.

Actually, Fiorina is a viable candidate that would be extremely interesting and illuminating in a debate with Clinton.

DIGNITY

Searchin’ high, searchin’ low
Searchin’ everywhere I know
Askin’ the cops wherever I go
Have you seen dignity?

Dylan

Integrity is something we terribly need in the White House.

Unfortunately, one cannot successfully get into the White House without first having a "campaign". The irony that this word is also used when talking about an army's trek across vast amounts of territory - pillaging, plundering and destroying as they go, extracting victory by any means necessary - has not been lost. A leader with integrity, who believes in justice, fairness and the rule of law, would be hard-pressed to gain victory against an opponent who believes justice is served only when they win; that fairness should benefit them and them alone; that the rule of law does not apply to those as privileged as themselves.

This sort of opponent attacks ruthlessly. They find greater shame in losing clean than winning dirty. A candidate who is unwilling to meet the virulent attacks of this opponent with like virulence will not win by taking the high ground. This opponent must be decimated. "Killing them with kindness" may be a winning strategy for the playground, but not here.

The path into the White House is no cleaner than the path out of Shawshank Prison.

It ain't the person, it's the system.

How many times do you have to be slapped upside the head before you see the obvious?

Probably the most successful thing this rotten assed gov't ever did was to hijack the education system for the lack thereof is at the root of the decimation of this country.

Only animals can be ruled, and the worst of them demand it.

"The beatings will continue until the screaming stops."

Several comments like this, above:

Carson and Cruz have way too much (integrity) to be considered electable in this environment.

Sad but true. I much prefer integrity. But that doesn't win these days. So I'll vote Trump. How could he possibly be any worse than the current incumbents in either Party?? And he might be far better — they were saying the same things about Reagan at this point in his campaign ("It's Bedtime for Bozo", etc.).

Reagan kicked their asses.

I would LOVE to see a Trump/Hillary matchup. The Don would crush the has-been hag.

That said, I hereby commit to support whatever candidate is closest to my own views, whether it's Carson, Cruz, Trump, Fiorina, etc., etc.

I know it will only delay the inevitable if a conservative wins. But at this point, the KGB/FSB/Useful Idiots' game plan has been spectacularly successful. America has been thoroughly demoralized, and the Lib contingent is picking up the pieces.

We've had a good run. The USA was nice while it lasted...

*sigh* "Bedtime for Bonzo". And "Cheap B-grade movie actor", etc.

I recall when the moderator tried to deny Reagan the microphone. Reagan grabbed it and said, "I earned this microphone!" Reagan's public (and true) defiance probably got him a million votes.

Trump reminds me of that attitude. If the Donald doesn't crash and burn in the coming months, he needs to 'grab the microphone' and demand the nomination.

Then we'll see if Americans are happy with the current crop of self-serving pols — or if they're tired of the same old shit.

Cruz is the most principled pol out there. Carson is principled but not a pol. Unfortunately, it is name recognition to the great unwashed that trumps principles so it's Trump to the finish line and Cruz the VP.

Nice guys finish last.
We need a shark, a crook if you please, someone that is comfortable at a board room table with other world leaders
and comfortable with billions of dollars being shuffled around with the stroke of a pen.
The shark, or crook will of course fight for what's best for this country.
Naturally he gets his ten percent, wouldn't you?

I won't compare Trump to Reagan. Two different animals, but yeah, I'd go with Trump.
What could go wrong? Or wronger than what we have now.

It's like being in Caligula's Rome. A half breed faggot of dubious provenance on the throne and toadying grifters running the place.
You gotta forgive me, I'm not well ... sometimes I think I've seen too much. I wish Putin had grown up in Boise. – Remus

Let's get the candidates proposing and defending their principles, priorities, and actions leading to achievement of their programs.
Debates among the candidates on crucial subjects. Candidates in groups of 3-4.
Some crucial subjects:
-- Iran vs world
-- Islam vs everyone else
-- China and Russia expansionism
-- USA immigration/guest worker[non-voting] policy
-- USA sustained jobs/economic growth
** tax reduction, regulations reduction
-- USA federal government size and function reduction
** which agencies should be shut down with responsibilities shifted to the States[EPA, IRS, ...]
** personnel reductions, 1% per month, in surviving agencies budgets to at least a 50% reduction.
** requirement that rules issued by surviving agencies, before enactment, be approved/disapproved by House of Reps following public discussion of cost--benefit analysis over anticipated life of rule/order/regulation.
-- limiting Executive Order implementation
-- Obamacare evisceration and replacement with across-State-border insurance competition.
-- Legal, moral, ethical redefinitions of infanticide, human being, American citizen, rights and responsibilities of citizens as well as resident non-citizens.
-- States' rights and Citizen rights protected by the Constitution

You get the idea. Appropriate 'Town Hall' debates presented in the world of radio, TV, internet.