Florida’s Sun Sentinel: No GOP candidate worth endorsing

[joeybee12]

The Sun Sentinel, a major South Florida newspaper, is refusing to make an endorsement in the Republican presidential primary because “the kind of person who should be running is not in the race.”

In an editorial published Friday, the paper’s editorial board argues that businessman Donald Trump, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are unqualified to be president of the United States. Though Ohio Gov. John Kasich would be the best of the remaining candidates, the editorial continued, he does not have a chance of securing the party’s nod.

“We showed our cards a year ago, before the extraordinarily large field of Republican candidates shaped up,” the editorial reads. “We favored the adult in the room, Jeb Bush, a smart, experienced and principled conservative. But the nation wasn’t ready for another Bush, and our former governor wasn’t ready for the anti-establishment edge in today’s Twitter-fueled campaign era.”

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, an establishment favorite, raised over $150 million but failed to gain traction amid Trump’s rambunctious rise to political prominence. Bush ultimately dropped out of the race in February.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/floridas-sun-sentinel-no-gop-candidate-worth-163139142.html?clear=cache

[KamaAina]

1. What a burn on Rubio!

A paper in his home state!

[FSogol]

2. Hey Rubio!

[HughBeaumont]

3. "The Adult in the Room"????????

Yeah, because most adult politicians campaign with all the competence of a drummer performing a solo on a descending escalator.

When your choices are a human rights-destroying Theocrat, a human-rights-destroying warhawk, my shitty anti-labor governor and a fuckstick billionaire who's failed almost as much as the last Shithead Scion who became President has . . . it's not much of a menu for sure.

[joeybee12]

4. I know...that's the weak link in this article...

Bush is as big a POS as those still standing.

[Wounded Bear]

5. I'd give the nod on that to Kasich...

still a RW asshole, but at least has showed some restraint and decorum. Probably why he's tanked. Everybody on the reality show bandwagon.

[HughBeaumont]

6. It's like they all forgot who helped install the Worst President Since Reagan.

[ffr]

7. "the nation couldn't withstand another Bush presidency"

Fixed!

Two recessions following disastrous Bush economic policies, one deeper than the other. What would be accomplished by a third Bush presidency, demons taking over Earth, Aliens sucking our brains out for dessert, a 2012 apocalypse? All would seem somehow better than having Jeb?! in the White House.

Can't do it. The GOP has to fall on their own sword this time. If you make a turd sandwich, you should be willing to eat it.

[Vinca]

8. Ouch! That's got to hurt.