After Trump Then Who?

[TheMastersNemesis]

If Trump goes down and he possibly will, who will take the lead. Cruz? Rubio? It is like being in a mine field. They are equally crazy and dangerous. Kasich is supposedly a moderate and he is a God greek. Who is their best candidate in the bunch?

[yuiyoshida]

1. I am hoping they will all

come to their senses, and admit the job is too hard, they are too lazy and none of them want to be President, really. No chance, but...one can wish for it.

[840high]

2. Should Trump go down - expect Cruz to rise quickly. imo

I don't see Trump going doen unless the party screws him somehow.

[morningfog]

5. He's waning. I too expect Cruz to have his moment.

How long it will last, is yet to be determined.

[BlueStreak]

15. Not a lot of time left for "moments. First primaries are only 8 weeks off

and half of that time is lost to the Holidays. Basically nothing will happen in December. That gives us 4 weeks of January for people to have their "moments".

[morningfog]

16. With this crowded field, January is just the beginning

of a long primary, with many moments.

[BlueStreak]

18. This time a brokered convention really does look like a possibility

I know it always looks that way before the first vote, but I just don't see anybody in this field that is going to rise to consensus. I think Trump's poll support is a mirage. I don't think he backs that up on the ground.

[daleanime]

7. I expect tRump to go down one way or another....

even if he has to chop a hole in his own boat. The only part of running for president that he doesn't want is the part where he actually wins.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Cruz seems to be the stealth "real" candidate...

he's been making moves on conservative Midwest churchgoers and getting traction on the way to Iowa.

I just don't know how we got to the point where Cruz is seen as a "sane" candidate.

[Agnosticsherbet]

4. If he goes down, it will be the candidate that Republicans think appeals to the center.

They flirt with crazies, but they tend to vote for a corporate conservative who has some appeal to the political center.

I think Rubio has a better chance to get that than Cruz.

[world wide wally]

6. Don't count out Jeb! just yet.

He has the money and the machine behind him and that usually does it.
Ability and character have nothing to do with it. If they did, they wouldn't even have one candidate.

[hibbing]

10. !

If he just sticks to a script his handlers give him instead of going off on his own, that is when he gets in trouble because he's just as stupid as his brother.


Peace

[world wide wally]

13. Maybe even stupider (if that is possible)

[CajunBlazer]

8. If The Donald and Sleepy Eyes fade, and I am not sure they will in time...

Cruz (the anti-establishment insider) is the natural inheritor of their supporters.

The Year of the Anti-establishment Candidates

[Fozzledick]

9. Robert Lewis Dear

He's shown a willingness to lead in taking action on the policies the other Republicans implicitly advocate but are afraid to take personal responsibility for, similar to the way Trump says out loud the things the others coyly imply but are afraid to state explicitly.

Plus he's a political outsider with no government experience who perfectly embodies the values of the current Republican party.

[951-Riverside]

11. God help us if its Carson

[Skittles]

12. I think he is another Dubya

oh yes

[BlueStreak]

14. Trump never expected or wanted to be in it this long

He's an attention whore. This is not a serious run for the Presidency. I doubt that he even has a substantial operation on the ground. But the rest of the field is so piss-poor that Trump just keeps leading. See
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html

The Party has a real problem. The only ones the Party would want to run are Bush, Walker, Kasich or Christie, and those guys are all dead in the water.I always assumed Bush would make a late move and take the nomination, but that doesn't look very likely now.

So they have a real mess on their hands. The only halfway sane one that is polling over 5% is Rubio and he is a real lightweight that could never win in the General. Rubio could be a VP on the ticket, but what kind of sense would Trump/Rubio or Carson/Rubio make?

[phantom power]

17. As you say, they are all equally dangerous. Any "difference" is just personal style.

[Victor_c3]

19. I'm really hoping trump doesn't fizzle out soon

The longer he stays in the lead, the more damage he does to the entire Republican Party.

When he does fizzle, I hope he doesn't drop out entirely and goes the independent/3rd party route

[flamingdem]

20. +1 I think he was promised a position in the Clinton admin

Unless he wins of course.