Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer sees Ted Cruz and Rick Perry as beatable in 2016

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON – Dan Pfeiffer, a top White House strategist, says Democrats would love to face either of the Texans angling for the president’s job in 2016.

Asked to choose between Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Rick Perry as a potential GOP nominee, Pfeiffer hardly missed a beat.

“That’s like would you rather have ice cream or cake?” he said over breakfast with reporters organized by The Christian Science Monitor.

Pfeiffer also said he’d been rooting for the GOP convention to go to Dallas, because it would have been so amusing to see how Cruz handled losing the nomination and then seeing the victor celebrated in his own state.

More at http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/07/obama-aide-dan-pfeiffer-sees-ted-cruz-and-rick-perry-as-beatable-in-2016.html/ .

[Swede Atlanta]

1. I don't think it takes too much genius to come to the same conclusion.......

Rick Perry has a difficult time speaking the English language. I see him like GWB in that regard. But GWB had an entire "family" behind him plus the PNAC crowd. I don't see Perry as a viable candidate especially if the Democrats play the tapes from the 2012 race where he appeared drunk (NH or Vermont?) and where he stumbled over which federal departments he would eliminate.

Otherwise I think he could conceivably win over some Independents that have been turned off by what appears to be an often cold and calculating Obama. That might give him a chance to win.

Ted Cruz, on the other hand, has absolutely no chance. He is on the very fringe. His actions of triggering the government shutdown, his baseless and callous statements about the President and everything else make him unelectable. He thinks the GOP needs to be more conservative and not less but the reality is the American population is not there.

[Gothmog]

2. Neither of these two idiots will be the GOP nominee

I also would love to see Carnival Cruz or Goodhair be the nominee but the GOP is not that stupid

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. lol ...

But their voters, apparently, are!

[Gothmog]

4. I agree

The state is realizing that it made a mistake with Carnival Cruz. Hopefully we can get either or both of Leticia and Wendy elected in the fall

[Matrosov]

5. GOP civil war

The civil war within the Republican party will work in our favor anyhow. The Tea Party has been a great blessing in disguise, with the way it continues to drive a wedge between the Republican base.

A common theme among GOP voters is the threat to either stay at home in 2016 or to vote third party. Libertarians don't want to vote for a social conservative, and traditional conservatives don't want to vote for a "RINO" who is seen as too soft on Democrats.

There is a good chance this civil war will result in a lower voter turnout for the GOP nominee. Make no mistake, we will still have to be in top form to ensure there are no slip ups on our side.

[TexasTowelie]

6. Let's hope so.

Anything that tears the GOP apart is fine in my book.

Welcome to DU.

[unionthug777]

7. i see them as...

dumb and dumber

[demwing]

8. Wasn't Cruz born in Canada...

and Canadian by birth?

Has the birther issue now neen resolved to favor Ted?

[TexasTowelie]

9. Cruz has renounced his Canadian citizenship

and Canada was thrilled to tell him adios mofo.

[demwing]

10. Damn, so deportation's off the table.

but how does this make him a natural born citizen?

[Terra Alta]

13. His mother was a citizen

so that automatically makes him a citizen by birth.

Of course, you have birthers saying that Obama isn't a "natural born" citizen because they claim he was born in Kenya, despite the fact that his mother was an American citizen, thus making Obama an American citizen no matter where he was born. And Obama was actually born in Hawaii, which is an American state. Funny these birthers aren't making the same argument against Ted Cruz, who actually was born on foreign soil.

[Htom Sirveaux]

11. I'm not sure the GOP has a candidate that is ready for prime-time and unites their party.

Even Scott Walker, the Great Koch Hope, doesn't have the chops for the national stage if he can't stay in the far right media zone.

[FSogol]

12. I plan on stocking up on popcorn and watching them defeat themselves.

[Sunlei]

14. GOP wanna-Bee Presidents musical chairs game is hilarious & expensive for their 'donors'