Unless some other, bigger tragedy happens in NY (Cuomo) or Maryland (O'Malley), Patrick is the leading the Democratic Candidate for 2016.
Who are we going to send up?
Ben Carson.
Hey, the guy looked and sounded good.
I won’t be voting for anything that comes out of Massachusetts or California, or Maryland.
You forgetting someone?
It is for good or evil (depends on if she wins or not)
Hillary’s turn if zer0 does not pull a coup ‘3rd term’ for life.
And don’t think she will NOT be gunning for the job.
More likely, events will overtake the 2016 elections, events so profound that the political landscape then can only today be described as science fiction.
But haven’t we already eradicated our White Guilt by electing 0bama?
1.Obama, as a candidate in 2007-8, was a riveting, magnetic figure...a gifted orator, and a blank slate upon which people could imagine/dream whatever they wished. He had NO record.
Patrick, OTOH, basically sucks as a speaker...did you hear him at the Dem convention?..he put them to sleep. Also, he has a track record, and the Massachusetts economy isn't doing that well.
2. More importantly, in 2008, a large part of the Dem base was unable to NOT vote for a black man ( even a half-black man) because they felt they would somehow be accused of being "racist." Now, having show how liberal they are, they can reject a lousy candidate who happens to be black.. without feeling that they are prejudiced. FYI..I think it's far more likely that Hillary will NOT run. In 2016, after Obama gets through messing up the country for another three years, there's NO way a Dem, any Dem can get elected president.
Patrick’s campaign was THE test run for Obama. Axelrod ran it and teased out all the vague ‘yes we can’ style language.
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. We’ll see. I haven’t heard much buzz from the democrats about 2016, outside of Hillary.
Whomever we send up...we have to begin to stand up to the media who pretend objectivity but in fact block and tackle for the left.
Romney never understood this. No more “debates” with the like of Candy (big can) Crowley as “moderator”. No more primary debates with Diane Sawyer and George Stepawhatshisface asking the questions about when the GOP is going to stop its war on women.
No more. Stop playing up to a media that hates us and will never give us an even break.
Patrick was basically just a figurehead for the State House Gang that ran the government (you could say something similar for Obama and the Chicago Machine, but it wasn't as obvious, in so far as Obama wasn't actually in an administrative position).
It's doubtful that Patrick could successfully withstand Hillary Clinton (though he might give Biden a good run for his money). Look for him to siphon away some of the Black vote -- maybe enough for Cuomo or some other White guy to win.
Democrats/Liberals like to Capitalize/Politicize tragedies.
Probably true of politicians in general: Giuliani, Christie. If you do believe in a bigger role for government, you probably are going to make more of emergency situations, though.
I suspect that Obama has damaged all black Democratic politicians for the next one or two cycles. He has been racially divisive and even the low information white voters see that. Further, I think many people now understand that racial divisiveness is a necessary characteristic of Democratic politics.
As to who will the Republicans run? Are there no more animated corpses like Bob Dole? Can’t we come up with another wooden-faced RINO like John McCain? We need somebody who has spent their entire life garnering the necessary favors and now is at the last point in their age when it’s the last chance they’ll have to run. They cash in the favors and there we go!
I don’t see any really conservative candidate getting out of the cross-over voter states where Democrats get to select the Republican candidate to run against. We should concentrate on adding to the House and taking the Senate.
Surely we have learned from having elected the “Community Organizer?”
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.
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.