Design the Republican candidate who would be Hillary's worst nightmare (user search)
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« on: May 24, 2014, 07:09:27 PM »
« edited: May 24, 2014, 08:05:01 PM by Starwatcher »

Pretend we aren't limited to the current list of possible Republican candidates. Imagine you could design Hillary's Republican opponent from scratch. What kind of candidate would Hillary do worse against, yet would still be able to win the GOP primaries against the established field? The only rule is you can't change history, except with your candidate's presence in it.




My first guess:

Vanessa Garcia was only 27 but already a self-made billionaire when Ronald Reagan chose her as the U.S. ambassador to Israel in 1987, where she served for the remainder of Reagan's term. Her parents were the children of Mexican immigrants, and she grew up in a poor neighborhood of Houston, Texas before building her American dream. She started as a model and fashion-designer, and then started her own fashion business that became high successful as she worked her way through college, and was a chief fundraiser in Reagan's re-election. Despite being a proud Texan, she relocated to Florida after Bush I was elected, and was elected to a single term in the Senate in 1992, but became so disgusted with Washington politics that she chose not to run again and relocated to California, where she served as a CEO in a successful Silicon Valley business. In 2006, despite it being a very Democratic year, she bucked the trend and was elected as California's governor in a triumphant return to politics, and her re-election in 2010 was no contest and she remains highly popular with California having a balanced budget and low unemployment. Garcia's second term will end when her successor is sworn in at the beginning of 2015, freeing up her time in a potential run for President. Vanessa Garcia will be 56 years old in 2016.

She is pro-life, pro-Israel, personally supports traditional marriage but accepts the legalization of same-sex marriage, a supporter of ENDA, a supporter of moderate immigration reform but thought Rubio's bill was flawed, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a proud gun owner and hunter in her personal time, believes in states' rights on marijuana, against the surveillance state and wants more transparency on national security matters, a supporter of total troop withdrawal from Afghanistan but keeping an close eye on it, tough on and wants a harder line against Russia/China/Syria/NKorea but doesn't want more wars, a supporter of "common sense" tax and entitlement reform that still preserves Social Security and Medicare for our seniors and eliminates tax loopholes for corporations and the rich, a supporter of business-friendly and moderate investments in infrastructure, in opposition to the individual mandate but is willing to work with the Democrats to moderately reform ObamaCare instead of outright repeal it, a supporter of a living wage that automatically adjusts to inflation, a strong advocate for greater oversight and prosecution of the financial industry which she personally despises (preferring industries that grow the economy by actually making or servicing things in demand, like the companies she has run, not manipulating money), and a reformer who wants to fix Washington DC politics.
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