How many Presidential candidates do you fear?

[Yelnoc]

Thinking about the candidates (or soon-to-be-candidates) running in 2016, how many of them really scare you? Like, you'd truly be concerned for the future of this country if they were elected?

[Del Tachi]

Of all of them:  Most of them

Of those with any chance of being the next President:  None of them

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Most of them.

And to be honest, I'm pessimistic enough to think people like Ted Cruz have a chance.

[Illuminati Blood Drinker]

Walker and that's about it.

[RFayette 🇻🇦]

Worst scenarios:  Sanders + Democratic Congress, Chafee, Cruz, Bolton, Santorum, Graham (assuming he remains as warmongerer as now)


Best scenario:  Kasich, Rand, Webb, or Hillary + GOP Congress  (maybe Walker if he quits sounding crazy on foreign policy)                               

[SWE]

Option 1 (sane)

[Torie]

How can one fear someone who has basically a zero chance of getting elected, say Carson or Santorum? Cruz is close to if not totally at, the big zero himself. Rand Paul is not in much better shape really. He will get his slice, but getting to a percentage where he gets the nomination, would be like climbing a vertical cliff without any equipment, because the ideological gap he needs to jump over to expand beyond his libertarian, dovish base, is that wide. I am concerned about Walker's competence, and smarts, but if those fears are verified, he's out too. I am not really fearful at all. And any Dem that gets in, will be leashed by the Pub House. Chill folks. Life is beautiful.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

A Clinton Jeb matchup scares me a bit; given Jeb's Latino roots.  But, Clinton can beat Walker or Jeb

[Mercenary]

None of them "scare" me.
I oppose all of them on at least some policies, I oppose some more than others but for the most part they will continue to run things 90%+ how they've been run so I see no real reason to fear them. People talk about X candidate is crazy or X candidate spouts crazy views and will get us into world war 3 or cause our economy to collapse, all of that is complete nonsense really. The truth is very little will change even if Paul or Sanders is elected.

But the candidate I least want elected out of everyone presently declared, probably Graham. His foreign policy is by far the worst.

[Skye]

The prospect of having a President Cruz or a President Sanders is a bit frightening.

[Maxwell]

President Christie or Santorum is pretty genuinely frightening.

[Suburbia]

President Santorum, maybe, but we will see.

[GOON]

To be honest, the state of America will just get worse irregardless of who is elected.  The fact that both Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are taken seriously in 2015 is a sad reflection upon the state of our people.

The best case scenario would be a Rand Paul presidency for eight years, since I can't see anything getting worse under him.  A holding pattern is preferable to a continued downward spiral.

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All the Republicans and Hillary are pretty scary.

[Crumpets]

Walker, Paul, Santorum, Huckabee, Perry, and Cruz are the only one's I'd say I "fear." I'd also fear a Trump presidency, but it does more good to worry about asteroids, super-volcanoes, etc.

[Lincoln Republican]

There are some real nut jobs out there for sure.

Santorum and his like for example.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Thinking about the candidates (or soon-to-be-candidates) running in 2016, how many of them really scare you? Like, you'd truly be concerned for the future of this country if they were elected?

I'm concerned for the future of this country with any and all of them, Sanders included. But I'm going to vote "most of them" because I don't think Sanders (or even Hillary, and maybe Kasich or Jeb) would actually make America's current trajectory that much worse. But others, like Cruz, Walker, or maybe Paul, could end up being just terrifying.