Posted on 04/20/2013 10:39:16 AM PDT by parksstp
Not a good idea to count her out. She has many admirers. If she is their candidate it could be another 4 years of horror for us.
1 time you've learned. 2 times? We live in a country of at least 52% morons.
It doesn’t matter who the Democrats nominate - they will win.
The Republican Party continues to alienate their conservative base and move left in an attempt to look more moderate. In doing so they have split the party. Enough conservatives will abandon the Republican Party to deny them a presidential victory for quite a while. And why not - what have they given us in the past? Besides George Bush, how many conservative candidates have the National Committee backed in the past 20 years?
Conservatives will likely form a 3rd party in 2016, removing 1/3 or more votes from a Republican candidate and making it impossible to win. It will be a long haul to get it all sorted out.
I live in Mass. I was never a fan of Deval. He always wants to tax stuff.
But, he came out of this week appearing that he was confident and in control.
He is not the speaker that Obama is, but he can come across as competent and not so dogmatic.
If he got the least amount of traction...he could be a formidable candidate.
Doesn’t matter. America is doomed from an illiterate electorate.
He had to have a straw candidate to help him in his last election (Tim Cahill) to win. Cahill bled off just enough votes to carry Deval over the finish line. He won with 48% of votes cast. Not exactly a big win.
“I don’t see Patrick as a Presidenial candidate. He’s older, short, and will not capture the youth in the same way. Hillary can coast in from her decades of good will with the left. “
The ideal ticket for the Dems is Hillary for President and Patrick for Veep. Another “historic” election where the nation gets its first female president and first black VP, plus the first ticket where neither candidate is a white male. The press will have a field day. Hillary will secure the female and the youth vote. Patrick will secure the minority vote.
Even if the Republicans countered with Rubio/West or Rubio/Carson, they would lose in a landslide.
By 2015 America will be done with Black Presidents and seek something conforting—an Old White Dude with white hair. Think Bill Clinton-like. Now, maybe for VP a black, yellow or brown would work—even a Red Indian. But, people will be going for comfort and stability—nothing odd—like a Mormon (book of Mormon Play killed any chance of that)or Catholic (Priests buggering boys finished that too). And no one with a name like “Bush”, or “Clinton”. They will want a fresh face and a fresh name. Maybe Rand Paul? Maybe a Governor worth his salt? maybe even Perry. BUT its really too early to think of such things. Lots going to happen in the next 10 months! Look what has happened since January? What else is coming? War? Natural disasters? Economic failures?
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