Posted on 08/31/2010 2:34:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m a Palin fan but my feeling is that Obama’s display of inexperience has squashed any hopes of a Palin presidency in 2012. I believe her time will come but not in the next election. But I’ve been wrong before.
Let’s hope for an 80 year old lilly white senator who’s war injuries prevent him from lifting his arms above his shoulders. You’d think we’d have learned that lesson with Dole.
Palin will beat the crap out of OJerko. But she's not the only one that can.
You could be right, but from where I sit, her inexperience looks far better than Mitts experience.
No, what it means is that we have yet to know the field for 2012.
I don’t think it matters whether they are Senate, House, Military, or a Governor.
2012 will be different than the usual.
I believe that comparing any person on our side to BHO is faulty.
They will emerge. There are those that do not want them to.
I wouldn’t for Mitt. Romneycare is a disaster in Massachusetts. That rules Mitt out for me but I’m a righty. It’ll be a guy like Hayley Barbour I think. I don’t think Mitt can win the Republican nomination since the country has gone right but, paradoxically I suppose, I think he would win the Presidency running away.
LOL! You’re kinda touchy aren’t you?
Of that group, I would vote for Palin.
But I agree with this author that there may be folks out there who haven’t announced their run yet.
Can you name a kick-a$$ Governor or ex-Governor that has a shot?
Right or wrong, from what I can see Palin gets the nod walking away if she decides to run.
She's the best retail politician of the 21st century so far.
Did you notice that the author is some kind of Third Party perrenial candidate and gadfly? No, the people that we are looking at now are the ones we’ll have to pick from, and if it’s Myth Romney or Gomer Huckleberry, I’ll be on a flight out.
Don’t take crap from newboids:)
Thanks. Did you read my post 28?
Us old vets have an obligation to cover for one another...we can't get around as well as we usta could:)
Its a betting line.
The top three are all that are serious candidates statistically.
Jay is a true moron!
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I know it’s a betting line, but Jindal in third for probability is ridiculous.
There has never been a time in modern politics when somebody came out of nowhere to win the GOP nomination, or some relative unknown won the nod, or some local Congressman was seriously in the running - ever.
We always have known the contenders a few years before the nomination was made. It has never been different, NEVER. Yet every single election cycle, we have to endure the “this election is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO different” blather, and the “local Congressman X is the best Conservative and can win the nomination” crapola. Every single election, we have to hear about some lost cause candidate, and how they're going to catch fire and shock the world and upset everybody and win the nomination because this time it's so different!
There is fantasy, and there is reality. Here's the reality:
The 2012 GOP nominee will be on of 2-4 people we already know, who have already gotten a Presidential ground game going of some sort - Internet, offices, PACs, or some other way. We will not be shocked by who is actually in the running, and nobody who is barely mentioned now will win.
One of the following will be our nominee: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, or Mike Huckabee. There is an outside shot that Haley Barbour or Mitch Daniels make some noise if they run, but not a very big shot. Pawlenty, Thune, ANY Congressman, Crist, and the rest of the names floated have no chance in hell.
The most likely scenario is a choice between Palin and Romney, with Huckabee bleeding votes from Palin. Romney is still the favorite to win the nomination, and if you don't believe that you're in the same crowd that thought McCain had no shot last time around because every Freeper hated him and didn't know anyone who liked him.
That the truth, period. We will almost CERTAINLY be choosing between Mitt or Sarah, with an outside shot Huck can pull it off.
All the howling, dreaming, and swearing upon the chances of some one-percenter (Thune, Ryan, Keyes, etc.) or someone who isn't going to run (DeMint, Jindal, Christie, etc.) isn't going to make a hill of beans of difference.
We already know the 2-4 REAL choices we will have, period.
Even Abraham Lincoln, only the 2nd nominee of the infant Republican Party, was a well-known quantity from his legal work, his term in Congress and the Lincoln-Douglas Debates for a Senate seat that Douglas ultimately won. You’re right, we don’t do Barack Obamas. The people here rooting for the Jim DeMints and Michelle Bachmanns are fooling themselves.
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