re: #46 William Barnett-Lewis

He will be. He came in 2nd this time & that means he get’s the nod next time. That’s how the GOP is. The primaries are only to decide the runner up.

Disagree. First, it isn’t an “always” rule. If it were we’d have seen Huckabee, not Romney, in 2012.

Second, there are some wild currents that didn’t get settled in the previous cycle. If they’d been settled we would not have seen three violations of the Hastert rule so far.

Third, Santorum wasn’t a strong second finisher. He was nose-diving under his own exposure instead.

No, I still contend that 2016 is going to be the crisis year. That’s the year I think the Nativist and Dominionist divisions will get dominant choice of candidate. Then two cycles of really nasty purity purges within the GOP, but not till the Gideonites get beat with their preference leading the way.