re: John McCain Recommends Jindal & Christie for 2016

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The last two elections the GOP has put up moderate "electable" candidates for president and they have both gone down in flames

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Did you maybe consider the two candidates put forth werent worth a damn? Romney particularly.

CC has the best shot period. Cruz and Paul will go down in flames faster than any "establishment" GOPer, mainly becuase they have a track record of being extremely partisan to the point they're wreckless (I know, it gives the extreme right a chub).

'mericuns are tired of that shite (majority of the voting bloc)

Wheras CC has a track record of actually being bi-partisan [gasp!!! - how dare he!]

CC can do it. Thats about all the GOP has right now me thinks.

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I still don't understand why our Congress members haven't worked on getting that Medicaid mess fixed. The Feds used the hurricane construction boom as the income figures to base the Medicaid dollars. Now those recovery and construction monies have disappeared with the state footing the bill

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Agree and that is some of the problem. But some of it is that our income has just increased. In 2012 inflation adjusted dollars the LA's average income was $33k in 2003, spiked to $45k in 2009 and is now $39k. So $39k is less than our spike, but is still a real improvement compared to pre-katrina levels.

So that is good news in the sense that as a state we are doing better (in terms of our economy), but bad news in that it hurts our federal reimbursment rate (and thus hurts the budget).

State income data

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Hawkeye95

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Holy shite dude. They did stay home in 2008. You keep bringing up the 2012 election.

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Go ahead and nominate a social conservative and see how you like the results.

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WTF. I never said to nominate a social conservative.

So you really believe that if Christie rebuffs Evangelicals and social conservatives they will vote for him any way?