Posted on 02/07/2007 6:21:25 AM PST by Blackirish
The nominees for the 2008 presidential race will be selected in 2007. The tempo of the new political process, driven by 24-hour cable news, Internet bloggers, conservative talk radio, and liberal NPR is so rapid that the nomination race cannot exist in stasis waiting for Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina to get around to holding their votes in early 2008. Well before they open their caucuses or polling places, this nomination, in each party, will have been decided by the national media coverage during 2007.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Little dickie should stick to prostitutes toes.
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Non-sense. Not too many people are happy with the current field. One mention from Oprah and Obama is an overnight sensation. Perot when he ran took off overnight. Nothing is settled until the votes start rolling in.
CNN, WMUR and The New Hampshire Union Leader will hold the back-to-back debates on April 4 and 5, the first such events to be held of the 2008 presidential campaign. CNN's Wolf Blitzer will moderate the debates with questions coming from WMUR's Scott Spradling and Union-Leader's John DiStaso. WMUR's Jennifer Vaughn will be moderating questions from the audience. The debate will be televised live nationally on CNN and throughout New Hampshire on WMUR.
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/primdeb08/cnnwmurul011207.html
Not so sure I want to stay very involved this cycle. It's going to be very long and very vitriolic. I'm already taking ranitidine.
In understand Middle Earth voters were disenfrancised in the last election.
You're kidding me!! Where did the time go??? I can't believe only two months. YIKES!
Your best bet is to just sit back, relax and let everyone else get high blood pressure! ;-)
This is from toe-sucker Morris. Don't lose sleep.
You made my day Sir Francis, you only missed Russert and the perky one.
Shhhhhh. Haven't you heard, Rudy has already tied up the nomination; AND he's a conservative! Don't question it, just go along with it.
Is that Barney Fag as Saruman?
That's what they said about Dean this far out.
Nope ...the old models are broken. They front-loaded the primaries and cash the mothers milk of politics has got to get rolling right now. Besides the extremes of either party are never
"Non-sense. Not too many people are happy with the current field"
The Base ...teachers unions...woman...love Hillary.....she doubles her rivals in most polling.
The base likes Rudy and with no Socon on the horizen he's nailing it down.
Feb. 5, 2008, will be Super-Duper Tuesday with, perhaps, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah voting on the same day..
Think about that. That means that some obscure nominee won't be able to go to IA and NH shake some hands and come from nowhere.
They will need an entire national ground game and close to 100 million to buy radio and TV ads within a few months.
They have to make the ads ....hire thousands of people..pollsters...consultants...the logistics in this time constraints are staggering.
There are 5-6 people in the country who can pull that off. Rudy,Romney,McCaine, Hillary and maybe Obama, Colin Powell,Edwards.
They front loaded the primaries. It's pretty much game over. Unless Rudy runs as a liberal...which we know he won't..or pulls a Dean Scream...he's to smart for that...game over.....only Romney could keep up...and he's not so bad. McCaine is too damaged and old and he has stabbed too many Repub suits in the back ...the long knives are looking for payback.
It's Rudy's and Hillary's to lose.
Anyone polling in single digits is already toast.
I think Morris might be right on this. But if so, then we are in for a difficult 4 years.
Simply put, Rudy can't win the presidency. Conservatives who usually vote Republican will not vote for someone who is pro-abortion (even partial birth!) and is seen as a friend of the homosexual agenda. Additionally, if voters want to vote for a liberal -- why not just pull the lever for Hillary?
If Rudy is the nominee, Hillary will be the Queen (er, President). And if that happens, as much as I hate it, America will deserve exactly what she gets.
Patriot Preacher
Actually that is the thinkg of the old model. With a website and a few appearances on cable you can create buzz and excitement and turn around numbers overnight. Certainly once the primaries get rolling things will be over quickly, but that is 2008, not 2007 like this article suggests.
We should just skip the primaries, campaigns and voting,and move straight to the coronation!
Might as well let the media pick the next President. That's what they're attempting right now with all these types of stories.
All hail! Queen Hillary!! OR - All hail! King Rudy!!
That whole netroots model flamed out with Dean. It's poll numbers and cash ASAP.
Not really. Dean lived by the net and died by the net. Really, Dean proved it can work both in a positive way and in a negative way.
YEAHHHHH!
Increasingly, such unguarded moments (for example, George Allen's "Macaca" comment) are recorded by non-media sources and then receive wide distribution on the net and elsewhere - irrespective of the mainstream media's preferences.
Under these conditions it's IMO likely that one or more "front runners" will be derailed by such coverage. Given his volatile temperament John McCain heads my list of potential media meltdowns and someone like Hillary Clinton is probably safest, but it could happen to anyone).
Hopefully a few years of this sort of coverage will remind voters that politicians are human, and they they all suffer such gaffes.
But I don't think that is going to happen before November, 2008.
The Newt - Gandolph one is a strech at best. The Pelosi one however, YOMAKB!
"Now you have to win the American Media Primary of 2007 and then your victory is ratified in the primaries and caucuses of 2008."
Thus we get the media favorites pushed on us by the leftists; ie, Rudy, McInsane, Romney.
I started to answer an individual that brought up Morris' sex life as a valid criticism against his intelligence.
Then I decided against a flame and decided to post this generalized comment.
Like many others on this site, you seem to think that the quality of political reasoning is determined by personal habits and foibles such as sexual preferences (Morris and Sullivan)and drinking (Hitchins)which we must presume are foreign to your nature and therefore unworthy of your approval.
Does any sex act other than 'missionary style' meet with your standards for judging political discourse?
I doubt whether your criticism based on your presumed moral superiority is as useful to Freepers as these pundits since they are able make a living on their political savvy and their skills in communicating.
Look at the bright side, Rudy has already pushed Hillary to the left. No matter who ends up as the Republican nominee, Hillary has been knocked off her game as a centrist.
Rudy is unacceptable for FR support.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780940/posts
Yep, Dean sure "SMOKED 'EM" at the primaries, didn't he?
True.. Giuliani will get Hillary elected FOR SURE...
Thats WHY the MsM wants him to win the primarys SO BADLY...
Of course Hillary will try to go back to the center, but it's going to be difficult with this drawn out run up to the primaries. Hillary was not planning to announce her candidacy this far out because it presents a real problem for her, trying to please everyone for such a long time. Remember, it is very difficult to fool everyone for such an extended period.
He sucks at that, too.
touche!
the difference between rudy and hillary is that he has governed a city and she's done nothing
.. Giuliani will get Hillary elected FOR SURE...
A good part of the republican party wants a Big Government Republican...
The rest are totally urinated OFF at that..
This election WILL BE different.. REAL DIFFERENT..
Even many on FR are delusional.. You can cut the denial with a 'nife..
Dickie must be getting quite a salary from the RNC for the Beast hasn't come close to doing any such thing.
The Beast has ample time to do a "Dickey" and stick the proverbial foot into mouth.
President Bush and RINO's?
Me thinks you are talking the "clash of the titans".
Nice try however.
Not true for she has "governed" a husband who happened to become President thanks to the politically frustrated nonthinking zealots who consider their mindset omnipotent.
That's easy for you to say.
Personally I find her rhetoric too nauseating to keep up with it.
Dick Morris; oh well, when he is right, hillary will be a conservative.
You've made an error..
I said, Bush and the OTHER Rinos..
I thought so.
Who needs a RINO when we can have a full fledged socialist that will destroy the "free market" that "President" Bush has maintained so well.
You can get lost in the forest for missing the tree's, however you will NEVER convince me of the same losing mindset.
Repeat as necessary, "President Bush...President Bush....President Bush..."
Accept it or accept a Democracy, AKA mob rule, for our "RINO" President has performed fabulously in stifling mob rule in our country while maintaining a Democratic Republic.
Democratic Republic is a redundant phrase.. therefore inaccurate.. and a clique..
A Republic is democratic in it's essence..
A Democracy is not democratic because it's Mob Rule or Tribal governance..
Mob's or a consortium of Mobs RULE.. by Mob leaders.. not ruled by "the people"..
Sharia Law is Mob Rule and very democratic.. rule by mob leaders..
Democracy is not very democratic..
Bush is a BIG government republican.. therefore a mobster..
He's proved it time and time again..
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Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
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