MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 362996 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I know it's early, but we've got a full plate of new candidates wanting to be the new POTUS. It's up to everyone to fact check these candidates on their background and support them if they support us. If someone knows the Democratic or 3rd party candidates, they can post who they think will be a good contender, but I'm going to list a few Republican/Libertarian candidates. Who do you see as front runner? 2014-12-09T20:30:55-05:00 MAJ Private RallyPoint Member 362996

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I know it's early, but we've got a full plate of new candidates wanting to be the new POTUS. It's up to everyone to fact check these candidates on their background and support them if they support us. If someone knows the Democratic or 3rd party candidates, they can post who they think will be a good contender, but I'm going to list a few Republican/Libertarian candidates. Who do you see as front runner?

2014-12-09T20:30:55-05:00 2014-12-09T20:30:55-05:00 SGT Kyle Taylor 363037

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>All the way!

2014-12-09T20:48:34-05:00 2014-12-09T20:48:34-05:00 PO3 Private RallyPoint Member 363043

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would vote for Rand Paul personally. My state will never get a Libertarian candidate on the ballet but Rand Paul would be on the Republican ticket so I could actually vote for him.

2014-12-09T20:47:42-05:00 2014-12-09T20:47:42-05:00 SSG Private RallyPoint Member 363044

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This should get interesting..

2014-12-09T20:47:43-05:00 2014-12-09T20:47:43-05:00 PO2 Steven Erickson 363095

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I'm a firm believer that governors USUALLY perform better as POTUS (that peanut-farmer from that southern state is a GRAND EXCEPTION).<br /><br />Based on "corporate titles" I'd like to rearrange the Executive Branch:<br />Chief Security Officer - Chris Christie<br /> (Someone who can give the internal/external bad guys a Chicago-Style "tune-up")<br />Chief Operating Officer - Rick Perry (Scott Walker?)<br /> (Someone who's [apparently] successfully run a government)<br />Chief Financial Officer - Rand Paul<br /> (Someone who'll say... "You want to spend money on WHAT?!?!?")<br />Chief Executive Officer / HMFIC - ?<br /> (Someone who can handle all these "A-Type" Prima Donnas)<br /><br />OK. So I didn't really answer the question - as usual - but I hope I've added some "targets" for discussion.

2014-12-09T21:12:24-05:00 2014-12-09T21:12:24-05:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 363408

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It is about time a person of character and accomplishment made it to the White House.

2014-12-09T23:48:26-05:00 2014-12-09T23:48:26-05:00 SSG Tim Everett 363505

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Other, because the only person on that list I'd remotely consider is Ben Carson. I'd love to see Jon Huntsman. I'd love to see Elizabeth Warren. I don't even know what his campaign platform would be but I'd sure as shit love to see James Mattis.

2014-12-10T00:47:26-05:00 2014-12-10T00:47:26-05:00 CW2 Joseph Evans 363578

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The problem here is what constitutes "support" for the military?<br />The military industrial complex?<br />The troops?<br />The occupations?<br />The "military family"?<br />The Veterans?<br />Just wars?<br />ethical warfare?<br />preemptive strikes?<br />Win at all costs?<br />Win by any means?<br />Peace through projection of power?<br />Peace through allowing national self-determination?<br />Bigger guns?<br />Better guns?<br /><br />Gonna go with Elizabeth Warren because she recognizes the potential for economic warfare, something we, as a country, are losing because we've sold our soul to multinationals, which includes most of the defense contractors, which sell their services to the highest bidder. The same tech going into the US war machine is now going into the war machine of every other country able to afford a Boeing or McDonnell-Douglas bid.<br />And if you hadn't noticed, China's GDP just overtook the good ol' U.S. of A.

2014-12-10T02:30:39-05:00 2014-12-10T02:30:39-05:00 SPC(P) Jay Heenan 363590

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well, not Chris Christie...he will eat himself to death before he can run<br />Not Ben Carson, he is to busy on the social media to take time out to run<br />Not Rick Perry, EVERYONE is afraid of another Texan...lol!<br />Not Rand Paul, he is going to stroke out before the next election<br />Hopefully not our current one who will try to call a national state of emergency so we will have to 'hold off' elections...<br /><br />I guess that leaves Trey Gowdy??? Hmmm, maybe John McCain will try to run again?<br /><br />In all sincerity, I hope it is someone, ANYONE, who will put American first and restore some pride back into this country...<br />'

2014-12-10T02:52:39-05:00 2014-12-10T02:52:39-05:00 MSgt Private RallyPoint Member 363677

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Im going to say Rand Paul because he probably has learned what not to do from his father. And he has been saying things to appease folks. Not at all interested in Rick Perry or Chris Christie. And I think Jeb Bush is going to throw his hat in the ring.

2014-12-10T06:41:57-05:00 2014-12-10T06:41:57-05:00 MAJ Robert (Bob) Petrarca 363686

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2014-12-10T07:00:57-05:00 2014-12-10T07:00:57-05:00 MSG Wade Huffman 363688

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I just hope that the primaries don't turn into another circular firing squad.

2014-12-10T07:13:37-05:00 2014-12-10T07:13:37-05:00 SFC Dr. Joseph Finck, BS, MA, DSS 363718

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The Honorable Rick Perry is a USAF Veteran and C130 pilot. He has the right kind of experience as Governor of Texas, but the question remains, can he keep his ultra conservative views moderate enough to make him a viable candidate. Pending further review, I pledge my support for him as of today.

2014-12-10T07:48:52-05:00 2014-12-10T07:48:52-05:00 Capt Richard I P. 363730

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Rand Paul will have my vote, more reluctantly than his father did, if he gets the nomination, Gary Johnson if he doesn't.

2014-12-10T08:07:02-05:00 2014-12-10T08:07:02-05:00 CPT Zachary Brooks 363778

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I think your front running Democrats will be Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren.

2014-12-10T09:00:24-05:00 2014-12-10T09:00:24-05:00 CPT Zachary Brooks 363783

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I used to support Rand Paul, sadly he has been showing himself to be quite two faced in order to win the position. I hope that is just politicking to get into the office, but it is hard to tell.<br /><br />I would love to see Ben Carson take the lead and get into the office, but I fear his lack of political experience may allow many of the other "more experienced" candidates to bully him. I truly do think he might be the best candidate from all parties.

2014-12-10T09:03:00-05:00 2014-12-10T09:03:00-05:00 CW2 Private RallyPoint Member 364180

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Jerry Brown. He should be able to bankrupt the country quickly. all jokes aside if the GOP selects Rand Paul*not likely* I might vote for him.

2014-12-10T12:31:19-05:00 2014-12-10T12:31:19-05:00 1LT Private RallyPoint Member 369984

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>None of the above because I cannot get behind the objective of a candidate that supports "us" as in the military.<br /><br />We're servants to the nation and its people. This has entirely subsumed my previous identity. That makes it the most important factor for me when I exercise my citizenship: Who will be best for America overall?<br />While pay raises are nice, I'm not hurting. While enhanced career progression via growing the force would be swell, I want to know the cost. North Korea has a government that literally puts the military first and I'm not too keen on them.<br /><br />What matters to me is: What candidate offers the platform that I believe is most likely to succeed in increasing economic prosperity, better outcomes across the spectrum of society, ensuring national security (through the use of all tools of diplomacy, to include the military spectrum from deterrence through total war), and still respect the Constitution.<br /><br />The perfect candidate has never existed and I see very few whom I wouldn't start punching until I stopped feeling in a bar argument about politics on the horizon. So, my vote will go to the candidate (and let's not kid ourselves, the party platform behind said candidate) who is the least noxious to the above-stated ideal.

2014-12-14T18:26:50-05:00 2014-12-14T18:26:50-05:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 370031

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Last time, I was all for Herman Cain. His tax plan was awesome and made sense. His other policies were pretty solid. Then he was derailed by accusations. Don't know if they were true. A lot of he said she said. But politically, he made sense.

2014-12-14T19:16:15-05:00 2014-12-14T19:16:15-05:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 555296

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I do not care as long as it is not another liberal. In the long run the military will have to spend money to make up for shortfalls that are a consequence of political games meant to punish us. Well, we plan to make those individuals, R or D accountable to those who have served this country. I am not going to vote for a person that doesn't like us. *the military*.<br /><br />People who blame the CIA and then ultimately the last president for the war and the cost of it. Then we get people here who constantly talk about respecting the office? Come on now, when have democrats every done right by us?

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