So many possibly swell candidates, Christie, Rubio, Martinez ect would be better served to wait till 2016 when they have more exp.
But we can’t wait, we can’t afford 4 more years.
Of course Obama was supposed to wait, but he struck while the iron was hot and won. The American Idol President for the country with the short attention span. ;d
A fresher face would be a positive in my opinion. GOP tradition however doesn’t favor that possibility.
Although I would love to see some of these Hispanic rising stars in the mix, I fear pushing them ahead before their time. I wonder what the incompetence of Obama has done to the fortunes of future black presidential candidates of either party. Are voters going to look at race and think, “we gave a black man a shot once and he failed miserably. Do we really want to go through that again?”
If a Hispanic is thrust too far, too soon and fails, would similar thoughts occur to voters who went out on a limb for mostly racial reasons?”
I don’t know. It’s common wisdom that voters have short memories, so maybe it wouldn’t matter.
But I agree, we can’t afford to wait 4 more years. Pre this election, I read countless replies that the GOP should try to lose the House, so that the GOP couldn’t be blamed for anything and would sweep to victory in 2012. Maybe those remarks were made by trolls, you never know.
How in the world does it make sense to lose now for the purpose of “maybe” winning in 2 years? I imagine we’re going to hear similar remarks as 2012 approaches, like “hey, let’s let Obama win, then when the country is way down the tubes, the GOP will win the presidency in a landslide.”
The GOP is truly starting to shatter the glass ceiling with stellar woman and minority candidates AND winners. I was tickled to see that Noem was elected by her peers to the leadership council. She comports herself extremely well and has a “gravitas” (how I hate that word, but it’s apt at times) that Palin doesn’t have, IMO, even though she’s every bit as attractive as Palin.
I hope we see more of West and Scott as well. I liked J.C. Watts personally, but he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. West and Scott are both very sharp. I haven’t heard much of Labrador, but his is a face that should be out there, being that he’s the first Puerto Rican born person to hold a GOP seat. That’s a great narrative that should be exploited.
Mike Rounds, South Dakota Governor should get some looks as well.
“A fresher face would be a positive in my opinion.”
Amen to that. It's the only way the GOP will win in 2012.
“GOP tradition however doesn’t favor that possibility.”
They need to enter the 21st century. The “it's his turn” mentality ensures defeat.