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Originally posted by: DonDiego
DonDiego appreciates that the Daily Koss has taken the trouble to set up the brackets with seedings based upon polling as of 21 July. It's sorta cool.
DonDiego won't fill out his brackets, but he'll offer some of his impressions of those in the competition.
__Marco Rubio and Carly Fiorina have surprised DonDiego the most. In serious lengthy interviews on the TV they come across as very well informed and capable of responding to questions logically and intelligently, . . . sort of the "anti-Hillary", who is guarded and responds with programmed, focus-group-tested responses, . . . if she responds at all.
__DonDiego is philosophically most in tune with the Libertarian Rand Paul, . . . but he won't be the next President.
__The current/former Governors - Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rick Perry, Scott Walker - all have more executive experience than the current President had when he ran.
Notably, Scott Walker has prevailed over intense opposition throughout his Governorship; having observed Presidents with college degrees, DonDiego supposes the lack of one might be a refreshing change.
DonDiego is unpleasantly surprised by snidely333's rayciiiiiiist rant against Governor Jindal.
__Ben Carson is the sort of person DonDiego would like to see President, . . . a successful, skilled citizen-President who hasn't lived his entire life immersed in political scheming, . . . sort of another "anti-Hillary". But he won't be the next President.
To be clear, lest poor old DonDiego suffer continued unpleasantness, the reasons I gave above are not my personal reasons, but rather, how I perceive the voting public to act within the confines of the secret ballot box. I used to like Jindal but now I find him too blustery.
I hope a moderate Republican wins the next election. The GOP needs to quell all the discord about social issues like gay marriage and the Confederate flag and focus on things that are important like unemployment, the economy, terrorism.
