Jim Gilmore will run for president; formal announcement to come 1st week of Aug.

[eric82oslo]

There are really only four candidates for President at this point: GOP front-runner Jeb Bush and his main rival, Scott Walker. Then, there is Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and her main rival, Bernie Sanders. The rest of this field is a joke, a bunch of egomaniacs who can't help themselves like kids in a candy store.

Walker is a bigger egomaniac than almost all the other GOP candidates in fact.

[eric82oslo]

Christie's antics are not too liberal, besides, when all comes to all, Trump is probably more liberal than Christie is. Just because Trump says that all immigrants are rapists or than Obama was definitely not born in the US, doesn't actually equate that he actually thinks so himself. He's smart enough to use the tea party energy to lift him up, though unlike Cruz, he's not stupid enough to actually let himself brainwash by all their garbage. Trump used to be a Democrat, and I still think he's a moderate, if you shave off all that nasty rhetoric of his. But will Republican voters actually realize this before it's too late? I'm not so sure. If The Donald were to reach the general, he would most probably shake off all his awful right wing rhetoric, at least most of it.

[eric82oslo]

Christie's antics are not too liberal, besides, when all comes to all, Trump is probably more liberal than Christie is. Just because Trump says that all immigrants are rapists or than Obama was definitely not born in the US, doesn't actually equate that he actually thinks so himself. He's smart enough to use the tea party energy to lift him up, though unlike Cruz, he's not stupid enough to actually let himself brainwash by all their garbage. Trump used to be a Democrat, and I still think he's a moderate, if you shave off all that nasty rhetoric of his. But will Republican voters actually realize this before it's too late? I'm not so sure. If The Donald were to reach the general, he would most probably shake off all his awful right wing rhetoric, at least most of it.

Trump is the most liberal candidate running on the Republican side, he's a protectionist who once championed a wealth tax and socialized medicine. But, Chris Christie's a big government Republican who expanded medicaid under Obamacare, supported tax breaks for a off-shore wind farm, and has presided over record corporate welfare.

Trump will fade, last time Perry, Bachman, and Cain all had similar polling numbers and it was ultimately a race between Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum.

Why is supporting tax breaks for an off-shore wind farm worse than what 99.99% of Republican politicians love to do, namely give enormous tax breaks to huge oil, gas and coal companies? Just because it doesn't contribute to global warming, it's officially morally wrong from a conservative point of view? Colour me surprised.