One joke, two airheads, one lunatic, and a couple of guys from Florida

[Bucky]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/gop-field-narrows-to-top_b_8248270.html

[font size="4"]GOP Field Narrows to Top Six[/font]



The Republican field of candidates for president has now entered a winnowing phase where the party's voters are clearly indicating that there are only six viable candidates in the race. From an initial field of 17 candidates, two have dropped out, five are on life support (politically), and four are in stable but critical condition. This has left only Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Ted Cruz with any meaningful chance of winning the party's nomination.

The poll numbers went through a major reshuffling right after the second Republican debate, so there's always a chance this could happen again after the next one. A candidate could have a brilliant debate performance and catch fire, and then follow in Carly's footsteps in the polling. It's still fairly early in the race, and anything could indeed happen. This is probably only possible from within the "critical condition" group, though -- those who are currently averaging between 2.4 and 3.1 percent in the polling. These four candidates may get the chance to be on the same debate stage with the top six next time around (assuming they'll be using similar rules to the first two debates), so they'll have the opportunity to have that magic breakout performance when everyone's watching. In order, these candidates are: John Kasich (3.1 percent average in polling), Mike Huckabee (2.8 percent), Chris Christie (2.6 percent), and Rand Paul (2.4 percent). While Paul has been holding steady in the polling over the past few weeks, though, the other three have been slowly slipping.

C'mon, really?

[Bucky]

1. It'll be Rubio, I think

[trof]

2. It sure won't be Cruz or Carson.

Repugs (establishment) hate Cruz and will find ways to do him in.
Carson is a dingbat.
Fiorina as a possible VP running mate.
"Hey! We got a wumman too!"

[geek tragedy]

4. Rubio's seemingly like the obvious, and most concerning, choice

on their side.

[Johnyawl]

6. Rubio is the John Edwards of the republican party...

...he's a lightweight, and as soon as he gets a little attention that will show.

The republican establishment wants Jeb. And that makes him the long term odds-on favorite. A lot will happen in the next 10 months.

[hifiguy]

3. Would any sane and responsible trust any one of these morans

to walk a dog around the block and bring the dog back in one piece?

Holy shite, whatta bunch of maroons.

[Bucky]

5. What would be scarier, asking Fiorina to feed your dog, asking Carson to train it....

or asking Trump to go have it groomed?

[Chan790]

7. the first one.

I fully expect that if I left my dog in the care of the worst CEO in history, she'd feed it garbage and broken glass to avoid having to buy real food.

Trump might have it badly-groomed but that's repairable. I think Carson would be good with a dog...similar intelligence levels, a shared back-and-white worldview and a obedience to higher powers neither is capable of understanding.