Posted on 03/21/2014 2:15:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If the author thinks the last two Republican nominees were decided by anyone but party bosses, he's delusional.
None of those 5 will make it in 2016.
Agreed. And they have coopted even more power to themselves as of the last convention. That organization is both dead and rotted IMO and will never see another penny or bead of sweat from me.
We need to focus on 2014.
Nobody knows whether we will be allowed to vote or have a country to vote about in 2016.
Bingo.
The only thing I wanna know is how do we keep them from doing it this time.
As delusional as anyone who might think the democrat choice is not cherry picked by the media.
Even this article is already declaring Hitlery as the dem choice for 2016.
This is all premature hogwash.
*shrug*
Maybe something good will come of it.
“If the author thinks the last two Republican nominees were decided by anyone but party bosses, he’s delusional.”
Personally, I think the last 2 nominees were hand selected by democrats in the news media.
“Nobody knows whether we will be allowed to vote or have a country to vote about in 2016.”
Pfff, save the melodrama, please. We needed to be coalescing around a candidate for 2016 starting two years ago, we are already running late.
The GOP is not split but layered. All the fat is at the top and needs to be scraped off.
Good. It’s nobody’s “turn,” so maybe we have a chance of getting a good Nominee this time. Meanwhile, the Rats have Hillary!’s turn, so they’re stuck with the problem we usually have with washed-up candidates.
Ryan is a non starter. Can you imagine him trying to campaign in FL after voting to cut vet retirement pay? It would be like a Rostenkowski town hall at a senior center.
Huckabee is a no hoper divide the conservative vote GOPe stalking horse. Newt played that role in 2012. Expect the same tactic again from the GOPe power brokers.
This is a fight for liberty that we have been putting off for nearly 40 years. The fight must happen and far better now than in the weeks leading up to 2014 or even the beginning of the next election cycle.
The party bosses are weak and exposed. If they consolidate in 2014 there will be the Democrats or the Democrats.
Huckabee played that role in ‘08, to clear the path for McQueeg. I’m sure he’d be happy to do it again. He knows he doesn’t have a chance, but he’d be thrilled to get to kick the support from someone else again.
The last two election cycles were decided by Mitt Romney, although the first one did not pan out for him.
In 2006 Romney was the 800 pound gorilla in money, and that kept out good challengers.
Romney mad it clear that he was willing to use his own money and he did, injecting 45 million personal dollars into his campaign, at advantageous stages during the primary, which increased their value.
Romney also sewed up the big donors very early with several very splashy (and impressive) publicized fund raisers, which made the money message clear to potential challengers.
Most here don’t need to be reminded of his domination of the 2012 cycle.
Whatever saved us from Romney, was not the problem in 2008.
There's a small chance that GOP primary protocol will, in less than two years, suddenly become repaired enough to represent real people.
There's an overwhelming likelihood that for Republicans and conservatives, 2012 will look very much like 2016: a contest between Uniparty colleagues, both wanting to apply government force in areas moral (the gay agenda), personal (medical/health), and "scientific" (the environmentalist power grab of energy and food production).
I'm already prepared for it, and I think most of us should be. Let's get real, here. The primaries are not all the sudden going to turn around and represent limited government America because they are rigged so that northeastern liberals, left and right, choose the candidate LONG before many of us even have a smidgen of voice. THAT's gonna change in two years?
I ain't holdin' my breath.
Time to start understanding and exploring and facing third party dynamics whether we want them or not, and figuring out how to use them to their best advantage. NOW.
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