Would Saddam Hussein have sold us Kuwaiti oil? Would he have sold us Saudi oil? Did he grind the Iranians into the dirt? While the government should not be involved in medical care, if that's what the public wants we could have had a paid-for health care system for everyone. But George Bush's daddy and brother took our money and bought an endless, unwinnable war instead, and left it to a much less able successor to deal with. No wonder the Bush name is toxic.

President GHWB lost me when he did the base closures and made the closed door deal to keep Saddam in power. Then, GWB blew it by mission change in Iraq from conquering it to "liberation" allowing the sects to remain armed. I don't fault him for bad Intel on WMDs, but that story is a half truth. Saddam DID order centrifuges from Europe and had mobile labs built. He had Sarin nerve gas stockpiles and threatened to use them. Gerald Bull, before assassination by Mossad in Belgium, tried to give Saddam a supergun based on German designs of the past to fire chemical rounds at Israel. The Germans also modified several SPGs of large caliber to fire chemical rounds. During the Gulf War sweeps, these things disappeared except for the super gun components. But Bush also blew it on Katrina and finally the Wall St. meltdown. But by then it was too late anyway. It became Obama's problem. Jeb Bush was a good Gov and is favorable with Hispanics, but has no drive and no message other than he is a "true Conservative" compared to Trump. Cruz and Rubio are the true counters to Trump as projected, but Trump is a TV guy with his own money. He can play the media, Tweet for free, get free press, and can afford to say what his supporters want to hear without consequences. None so far that have any effect on his polling numbers. It remains to be seen if he can stay on top by February primary voting.

Hillary Clinton would be an unmitigated disaster. Trump seems unpredictable to me. It's not so much I want to see him win as to see the Hillary crowd defeated. Ben Carson seemed like a nice, stable sort of guy. But trying to manufacture a "street" image of a reputed "thug" past makes no sense at all. The one positive thing I can say about Carson is that if someone tells him the Egyptian pyramids were not grain storage facilities he will accept the truth. Try telling Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders that you can't achieve prosperity by spending the country into bankruptcy or tell Obama that intimidating gun show participants out of selling firearms will not stop mass shootings and no matter how true it is, they will never allow themselves to admit they were wrong.