Posted on 12/30/2010 12:48:25 PM PST by pissant
Jen Rubin makes the sensible case that, because all the potential GOP presidential candidates have weaknesses, a newcomer could have a real opening in the 2012 presidential election. Among others, Rubin suggests that Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, and Mike Pence might have a chance.
It's the case now in politics that one can become famous very quickly. With cable TV, the Internet, and various other lightning fast means for exchanging information, it's not inconceivable that a candidate could start late, and still muster enough positive attention in a short amount of time to win a presidential primary. Consider the most recent -- and best -- example of this: Barack Obama.
In 2006, which is the equivalent time out from the 2008 campaign as we are from the 2012 campaign, Obama was just a two-year senator with practically no legislative or political victories. In February 2007, Obama officially announced that he would be running for president. And although he had done much to lay the groundwork for his run, Obama was able to get popular, and become a household name, very quickly.
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Might we suggest another newcomer named Allen West?
In about 8 years, yes.
Allen would be nice, but im not sure two years is enough time for him to get traction....
this is a wishful thinking article that’s all...
The elite snobs at the Weekly Standard are showing their usual fear of Sarah Palin.
None of those candidates is credible, not without further grooming. Duncan Hunter already undermined his promising career by trying too soon last time. Never got over a few percent.
We need to start training our bench, so we have a LOT of qualified conservatives out there. And that means taking the best people and thoroughly grooming them, bringing them up through the ranks, and then running them.
That was one of Bush’s major failures: not to groom any likely successors. Not that he would have wanted a conservative successor anyway.
8 years is probably about right for Ryan too. Though they’d both probably need to be governors first.
How do you come to that conclusion when they are equally dismissive of GOP golden boys Mitt/Huck/Daniels/Tpaw/Newt. The world does not revolve around Palin for most conservatives.
Since the author dumps on Sarah, the ant with piss on his breath, is only too happy to pimp the story.
With only two days left in the year, the pissant will scour the net looking for negative Sarah stories.
Ulgy, nasty little bastard, suits the pissant.
One reason and one reason only; the color of his skin. If obama did not have dark skin, nobody still would have heard of him.
Where’s Art Bell when you need him?
Exactly.
Chris Cristie sounds great when he takes on the unions in Jersey. Beyond that he is open borders and pro 911 mosque. I also notice that he keeps social issues very quiet. Not surprising being from NJ, but not vetted yet as anyone with any shot at this short amount of time till ‘12. He has categorically denied wanting to run. He should not even be thought of a viable on those comments alone. I want someone willing to do the job.
Ryan and Pence have absolutely no experience past being politicians. Pence was a lawyer but so what. He jumped onto a huge pile of Bush stimulus spending totaling BILLIONS and he was “confused” about immigration policy as well.
Ryan has been working as a politician his whole life. I don’t care if he is right on issues, get a real job for a while then get back to me. We already have a professional politician in office and he is incompetent.
The writer here is just upset that his brand of RINO isn’t in the mix yet. Too bad. There are plenty of road tested names already in far better positions that cover the myriad of thinking on the right.
The Weakly Substandard is a CINO publication and should be considered questionable at best.
And Palin’s real job was???? She’s been in government of one type or another since 1996. Then she quits halfway thru her gubnership
I'm particularly liking what I've seen of Paul Ryan so far.
There are some other "unknowns" I'd like to learn more about as well.
I don’t think Ryan has made any noises about running, but I’m sure he’ll be high on the VP lists.
There’s still lots of time before the media and/or the Republican elite tries to crown a nominee for us. There’s no need to declare any candidate THE standard bearer to run against Obama at this point. Heck, is anybody a declared candidate yet?
That’s called Executive experience like it or not. And she didn’t roll through the elitist GOP network like the above mentioned did.
I didn’t see where I mentioned Palin at a in my reply. I am a Herman Cain guy to speak the truth. I am tired of people who never created a single job telling me they are going to create jobs.
I am curious about your seething hatred of Palin. Do you have some sort of mental illness/phobia toward people from AK or women in general?
I would also like to query you on your pushing of Pence even though he has done nothing important with his life and seems to like big spending and has a soft spot for illegals?
I hope that Gov. Christie will be re-elected, in 2013, and that, in 2014, he’ll defeat Sen. Lautenberg. If that happens, he should run for president, in 2016 or ‘20.
Ryan and Pence probably can’t win, since they’re congressmen. Only one president was elected while the candidate was a U.S. rep. That was James Garfield, in 1880.
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