Well, it looks like the GOP field has three new contenders: Governor Mike Huckabee, Dr. Ben Carson, and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina are now in the race. Do any of these candidates excite you? Personally, I still favor Cruz, but it is good to see some fresh faces. Fiorina has real world business experience with is refreshing considering who is currently in the Oval Office.
I have to do more research on all of the candidates. I can't make a educated decision at this point in time.
I think Huckabee would be the one among those three who would stand the best chance against the likes of Bush, Rubio, Cruz, and the others. Carson was an awesome success story (as was Fiorina), and seems like a great guy overall. But I just don't see him doing well as a high level politician. Fiorina doesn't seem to be very popular in the polls so far.
Indeed, Fiorina doesn't have much name recognition and may never have enough. I don't know how well know Carson is outside of Tea Party and conservative circles. Agreed with Huckabee; he could be a strong contender and he came close in past elections.
It looks like Rick Santorum has just officially launched his campaign. His showing the last time wasn't spectacular, but not terrible either. It will be interesting to see if he focuses on economic issues or gets hung up on social topics again.
The political parties no longer are in touch with voters. Both the repugnicans and the dummycrats are way out on left field. About the only party that has some common sense is the liberterians, but they do not have a chance in hell. The occupy movement and the teaparty show that both right wing and left wing voters are upset. Both of the movements are actually quite similar in nature, in that they are saying the system is broken and needs to be fixed. This is a serious problem that is being swept under that carpet, that seems to be how USA handles all problems now days. If it isn't fixed it could lead to social unrest. Not sure what happened to the USA which used to take problems between the horns.
None of these three have much of a shot. They're just crowding the field. I'd be surprised if more than one of them is even included in the debates if they only let 10 people on the stage. Huckabee probably has the best shot, as he at least has a base of support from his last presidential run. Still, don't see any of these folks having much a shot at winning the nomination, or even a single primary. They're talented folks in their own way, though.
I'd like to see a candidate who is committed to fiscal conservatism, reducing the size of government, and mainly using federal government for national defense and foreign policy instead of out of control big govt socialism and fascism with a weakened military and foreign policy. And the political correctness of the far left loons needs to be reigned in. Wedge issues like religion, gay marriage, and abortion seem to trip most of the potentially good candidates up sooner or later.
It's going to be hard to choose between any of them as their isn't enough kmien about them. People need to make an informed decision, and when there's a lack of information out there, then this is obviously going to be an issue.
There are way too many candidates running this time around. Lindsey Graham from South Carolina just got into the race. I would say the only folks with a legit shot at the nomination are: Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. All the others are really just second and third tier candidates. It's nice to have better choices than 2012, but there are too many. It's just going to make it that much harder to settle on one person as the best candidate to take on Hillary.
