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Seriously (no, really ), it's obvious for obvious reasons that no one currently in the running is going to be on the GOP ticket. Half could never get nominated by your whacked-out base, and the half that could won't win 20% of the people's vote in the General (when SANE people get to vote)
So, any predictions for the ACTUAL GOP ticket for 2012? If the economy stays in the toilet, Obama is beatable. The people inclined to vote against Obama wouldn't miss out on the chance to do so, so you are assured of a big GOP turn-out.
All you guys have to do is nominate someone one/half of the country can possibly conceive of as presidential, and we'll have ourselves a horse race.
My prediction is... the guy/gal who will ultimately be your candidates will be: two people who haven't announced yet, and have in fact said they won't run-
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* Christie/Rubio.
Someone will pop up that is worthy IMO.
Obama has lost all the Independent and much of the White vote he had, so unless Republicans run McCain again Obama should lose.
Who ever the Republican nominee will be, you will still see the full attack of the mainstream media agaisnt them. Happens every time since I've been alive.
Seriously (no, really ), it's obvious for obvious reasons that no one currently in the running is going to be on the GOP ticket. Half could never get nominated by your whacked-out base, and the half that could won't win 20% of the people's vote in the General (when SANE people get to vote)
So, any predictions for the ACTUAL GOP ticket for 2012? If the economy stays in the toilet, Obama is beatable. The people inclined to vote against Obama wouldn't miss out on the chance to do so, so you are assured of a big GOP turn-out.
All you guys have to do is nominate someone one/half of the country can possibly conceive of as presidential, and we'll have ourselves a horse race.
My prediction is... the guy/gal who will ultimately be your candidates will be: two people who haven't announced yet, and have in fact said they won't run-
*
*
* Christie/Rubio.
Remember, you saw it here first!
..okay...get off the computer, get out of your folks basement and get a life....it's a year and a half away...
Someone will pop up that is worthy IMO.
Obama has lost all the Independent and much of the White vote he had, so unless Republicans run McCain again Obama should lose.
The retreads will fall by the wayside in short order.
None of them are particularly inspiring.
With Huckabee out and Palin showing little intent to run, Cain and Bachmann have stolen the momentum going forward.
We've had enough milquetoast pseuto-conservatives running and losing because they are hardly distinguishable from the Democrats they oppose.
Yeah, but if you run a pure-bred hard core conservative (like Bachmann for example), she'll get the 35% of the voters who are hard-core conservatives/libertarians, and maybe peel off a few Independents, and lose to Obama 47-39 in the general (there would be a certain percentage who are disgusted with Obama, but couldn't stand to vote for Bachmann, who would sit the election out)
It would be like the Dems running Russ Feingold or something- it would feel good to the far left , but he couldn't win a general election. The trick for both parties is to pick a candidate who appeals to the base, yet doesn't scare the 5-15% swing vote every election hinges on. As the GOP gets more and more intellectually pure, that trick gets harder to pull off.
So my question is, who fills that bill this cycle for the GOP? I don't think it's anyone we've seen so far.
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), it's obvious for obvious reasons that no one currently in the running is going to be on the GOP ticket. Half could never get nominated by your whacked-out base, and the half that could won't win 20% of the people's vote in the General (when SANE people get to vote)
