On the Republican side, I'd like to see DeSantis/Crenshaw.

...and any which way we would wind up with a capable president.

Be fine with any of those guys 'cause honestly they're not that much different. If Buttigieg was slightly less gay he'd be running as a centrist or even center-right candidate because that's where his political instincts are.

I have personally voted for all three in either primaries or elections.

Do you think Buttigieg - who served in Afghanistan - would have gotten pantsed by the Taliban like Biden did? No way, no how. That dude does not miss much.

Do you think Romney would have? Or Kasich? I find it unlikely. Those guys always have competence around them. Amazing what a lost art the simple act of being competent is in these polarized times where being the biggest idiot and often the most controversial and destructive is often a bonus.

Get us back to stolid, competent, and boring, please. That's what Biden promised and couldn't deliver, and what so many of us desperately crave.

And I will not vote for Kamala Harris. Ever. But I seriously doubt she can carry a primary, either, whether she was VP or not. She's a snake, she's toxic, and people do not like or trust her. Justifiably.

I don't think she's president unless it's by veep elevation because Biden couldn't finish a term. I don't see her ever winning an election and the Dems would be stupid to run her. The Dems have been stupid more than a bit, though.

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I'm with APM here. We vote for whoever tells us what we like to hear. No one wants to vote for someone who says "We're BROKE". So you get the chart. Then when someone does something we want to hear, like we're leaving Afghanistan, well, they are attacked, but those who voted for the prior President, from the other party, who said the exact same thing and never DID anything, attack the guy who did, because he didn't do it right? What's the right way to retreat? Just like stopping illegal immigration. Everyone likes to hear that, but I promise you if it were ever actually accomplished, our economy would collapse. Or promises to cut spending? Who wants that? The taxpayers want tax cuts, the dems want more entitlements, so debt never decreases, either way. What's the INCOME tax bracket that fixes our debt? There is none. What's the capital gains tax bracket that would fix it? There is none. There is no tax fix. There is no tax cut that could boost GDP to levels to pay down debt either. Again, no one wants the taxes, or a cut to their subsidies, or handouts. Sp we just spend. And our trade deficit? Everyone says it's bad. But end it, and we crash. Our present greatest geopolitical enemy is one of our largest trading partners.

So we vote for our flavor of sunshine pumper, and no one actually LEADS.

And before anyone dismisses this, here's what I would do if President. The MOST important thing I could do for the country, to fix our problems, would be to beg, plead, grovel, write a book, hold a press conference, or a dozen, promoting an Article V convention of the states. Two amendments, term limits in Congress and a phased in balanced budget amendment. NOTHING more. And even then I expect my biggest job would be to keep the politicians on topic. I'd use Twitter relentlessly promoting this.

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