Notes From My Short List

I don’t endorse candidates – well, rarely, anyway – but my fantasy ticket for 2016 is Scott Walker and Rand Paul.  Since neither is likely to settle for Veep, it’s probably fair to say that either of them (maybe with Susana Martinez for Veep) is my current front-runner.

Why Walker?  Look at Wisconsin. 

Why Rand Paul?   Because he’s putting the GOP – and more importantly conservatism – into places where it’s not been seen in decades.  And – the bleatings of too many establishment hamsters notwithstading – convincing people that conservative-libertarianism is the right answer to this nation’s problemsisthe future of conservatism, and especially the GOP, if there’s going to be a future at all.

And Paul gets this:

Historically, the Republican Party has been just what the public thinks it is, largely a bunch of risk-averse white men who are totally clueless at public relations, even though they are on the right (correct) side of almost every issue. Meanwhile, the liberal Democrats haven’t had a decent rational argument about anything for years, if they ever did. They ream young people, blacks and virtually every other “interest group”that supports them with their policies and they still win most national elections. What a disgraceful group of losers that makes the Republicans…Rand Paul is smart enough to realize this and actually goes out and does things about it…The country is changing. Whole new groups are ripe for the picking, most obviously the young who are being so completely raked over by the Obama administration via Obamacare and the rest of the entitlements so many of them know they will never see. They were ready to applaud at Berkeley.

The whole thing is worth a read. 

And, if you’re a GOP activist, a little bit of internalizing.

4 thoughts on “Notes From My Short List

  1. Rand Paul gets the simple message that you don’t get voters from the other side by being a lighter version of your opponent.

    You find an issue they agree with and hammer your opponent with it.

  2. Kin,

    I went to Jamestown, but like every native son, I’m a Moo U fan.

    I actually have a piece on the subject slotted for noon, believe it or not.

  3. I could gladly support that ticket. There’s still a slight bad taste remaining in my mouth from voting for “the maverick” way back and my core temperature is still lukewarm from Romney. These two guys seem quite palatable, particularly when compared to past candidates.

    I was always enamored with a ticket which included Condoleezza Rice in either position. Then she broke my heart with her “inclusiveness” comments a week or so back. You’d think she’d find a response to that in the nearest mirror …

    Youth, or at least a youthful persona, should be at litmus test in candidate selection this time around.

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