Rubio-Kasich is their best bet

[oberliner]

They both can give the appearance of being sane. Relatively decent public speakers.

I think that tandem would be the most formidable one for their side when they finally decide to go with an "establishment candidate" and abandon the Trump/Carson/Fiorina lunacy. Jeb does not seem to be the guy.

I predict Rubio slowly climbs up in the polls as the RW MSM decide that he is the horse they could ride. Then he can grab Kasich as his VP to try to win Ohio.

That is the ticket that would most worry me as a Democrat.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I dunno-- Fiorina sounded like she had a grasp...

of policy details. "Sounded like", not necessarily "had" said grasp.

Anyway, a Carly-Hillary race would be interesting.

[oberliner]

3. Interesting

I just don't know that the powers that be in the Republican party would be OK going with someone who has never held any elective office.

[riversedge]

2. Carly is the new Margaret Thatcher--its Hillary vs Carly per morning joe

[oberliner]

4. Thatcher on the ten dollar bill was such a weird suggestion from Jeb

He couldn't even come up with an American?

Anyway, a key difference between Thatcher and Fiorina is that Maggie was actually a member of Parliament for almost twenty years before she became PM whereas Carly has never held any elective office.

I can't see the Republican establishment rolling the dice with her.

[kaiden]

6. Carly and Trump are exactly the perfect GOP candidates.

Republicans love to gush on and on that government is a business and should be conducted as such and, as such, the touchy feels by the Democrats have sent this country in a downward spiral of debt and too much niceness. The country could elect Carly and she could fire the whole lot of us. And the size of the layoffs would be in direct proportion to the massive, collective boners on the Right.

[oberliner]

18. That's why Romney seemed like a logical choice

He had both experience as an elected official and experience "running things" like a businessman.

[DrDan]

5. I think you have to throw Carly into the mix

watch for a big bump for her

[hobbit709]

7. That's like saying dying of syphilis is better than dying of the plague.

[daleanime]

10. +1

[oberliner]

17. Yes, they are all awful

I am just predicting how I think it will play out.

[Cosmocat]

8. Carly is the flavor of the month

she has a lot of exposed flanks, her "business" creds end with her company going into the tank, she has a spotty personal life, and she is about the only candidate Hillary could face that would make Hillary more "likeable."

People liking her now is simply a reflection of how horrific the whole lot of them are.

I do agree, Rubio has the best veneer to work with ...

[Hortensis]

11. I agree Fiorina would not wear well. My best guess is still already-tired

retread Bush for the nominee. Booring, but he officially is far ahead of any of the others in the money race, with secret donations estimated to put him most of the way to the $1 billion believed needed to win.

This weird season, though, the hostile right might just turn their aggression against an establishment nominee, and wouldn't that be fun?

[oberliner]

16. That month will end

I don't see her making it through the long haul.

[RiverLover]

9. Kasich had a lot of facial ticks going on. He looked a bit crazy to me.

I've thought for the past year he would be their nom, but now, I'm not too worried about him anymore.

[Hortensis]

12. Red State agrees with you that Kasich didn't do well, sounded "out of date."

[Hortensis]

13. I dunno too. Sanity doesn't seem to be selling well so far. :)

Seriously, I could imagine a rather sobering Kasich-Rubio ticket.

Red State sees Rubio as almost far right as Scott Walker and Ted Cruz, though, disguised behind that nice-boy face, and if that's true his current reputation for "sanity" might not hold up.

[Mass]

14. Rubio's views on abortion are not sane.

Neither are his views in foreign policy.

Same goes for Kasich and abortion. His record is really bad.

[oberliner]

15. They are if you are a RW Republican

I don't see them nominating anyone who has more reasonable views on that subject.