Walker is a dud, and there nothing one can point to that makes him a strong candidate. No keystone legislation, no personality, another version of T-Paw. Anyone that would find Walker appealing would find JEB doubly. The patina of GWB presidency is starting to look nice to more than a few Republicans. Christie is too rotund to be a viable candidate, it should not make a difference but in modern politics image matters.They actually have better/stronger candidates than in 2012, in Walker and Christie. They have their warts (obviously), but at least they have a pulse and personality, unlike Romney or the other 2012 losers. The scary thing is that at least two of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul will be involved, pulling the conversation far to the right, just as the TP did with Romney two years ago. Though that actually seemed to benefit Democrats, having the eventual Repub nominee pulled too far from center.
I'm sorry, I don't want Hillary. I don't care that polls well today against a generic or is most likely to win...I want someone with new ideas, someone that won't be in their mid-70s in 2020 when standing for reelection. That said, nominating a white woman is a slam dunk for the Democrats... even though Elizabeth Warren is probably too liberal for the country as a whole, I still think she'd win due to demographics of the electorate in 2016.
EDIT: Bush vs. Clinton in 2016 would mean a lot of people just stay home...because, gross. Nobody wants royal families in America.
Hillary is Republican-lite. A war hawk and a vacuous neo-liberal economically. Very disappointing.