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Posted on 08/17/2014 2:33:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The party of the next guy has no next guy.
For more than two generations, the Republican presidential nominating process has had an immutable internal logic to it: The next guy in line gets the nomination. That’s how every Republican president of the post-Eisenhower era has won his party’s nomination and how just about every GOP presidential nominee since Thomas E. Dewey (1944 and 1948) got to the top of the ticket. It’s certainly how Barack Obama’s two opponents, Sen. John McCain and former Gov. Mitt Romney, were nominated.
But just as the Republican Party is going through one of its periodic struggles for identity — earlier such battles were fought in 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1980 and 1992 — the party finds itself without a “next guy.”
The only political figure with possible claims to the title is Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the 2012 vice presidential nominee. But he is more interested in becoming chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee and realizing his dream, perhaps as difficult to attain as winning a presidential nomination, of rewriting the federal tax code....
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I “wasted” a large amount of time raising a little over $40,000 for Fred Thompson, but that won’t stop me if either Ted Cruz or Sarah Palin runs.
It’s GREAT that the GOP has no “heir apparent”!
Now, rather than sow RINO, we can nominate a CONSERVATIVE like Ted Cruz!
If so, he’s the most successful one in their history. Does he hold a similar office at LULAC and Republicans for Hillary?
I think it’s great that. We don’t have one. Bring on the primaries an sell your selves to us. We will know who we like
Ho hum...
The Dems are SO angry that the GOP has not formed a circular firing squad BEFORE the 2014 election! And self-destructed! But, hey, who cares about them?
There is plenty of time to select a strong conservative candidate before 2016: Cruz, Walker, Palin, Jindal and Perry are on my list.
The questions we have now are:
How do we patriots get our choices known BEFORE the GOPe brings the stone tablets of “approved” names down to us?
How we keep RINOS like Christie, Bush, Paul and Romney OFF of that “approved” list?
I think it’s time for the “new” Tea Party to schedule a “new” March on Washington on a Saturday and Subday before the 2014 election. I think a weekend date is prefered, since patriots generally need to work.
And let’s invite “Rolling Thunder”.
And let’s fly our “Gadsen” flags.
And let’s dare the puppet media to ignore 1,000,000 patriots marching to RESTORE AMERICA!
I like your tagline and your choice of nominee.
Or, it could be that she teased the GOP base for half a year last time, then backed off.
Oh please, tell us more about your theory, we’re all ears.
Nex-guy-in-line is Santorum; but the party bosses surely believe in Jebbie but will settle for Christie or Romney. No one else need apply.
Didn’t you hear? Mitt’s going to run again. :-)
“The only compromise that I see between conservatives and the GOP-e is Governor Rick Perry.”
Oh, I really hope not.
No.
Just no.
No on Perry.
They are the “Washington Generals”, and they are perfectly happy with that.
If Clinton/Castro is their 2016 ticket (as I am being told), they will be very sorry. Hillary will never be president.
Again, Ted Cruz was the North American debating champion in two categories and has at least a dozen supreme court arguments under his belt, many of them successful, neither of which either one of those mediocrities has on their resumes. This should be real interesting.
back when it meant something!
Yep...today the way to win a debate contest is to simply call your opponent a racist.
I disagree. The Republican leadership has decreed that either Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush will be the *only* choices offered to delegates at the convention. And they are likely going to make a rule that *forces* delegates to choose between those two, whether they want to or not.
This is such an offensive action, that there might be a full scale delegate boycott and walk out, punctuated with very loud booing. Because the bottom line is that the rank and file will *never* vote for *either* Mitt Romney *or* Jeb Bush.
Oddly enough, this is why this midterm election is so important. Assuming the projections before absentee ballots are cast is that Republicans will have a bunch of pick ups in the senate and the house, it will be up to the Tea Party to *boycott* voting for the worst RINO offenders, like Mitch McConnell.
Yes, it is worth it to give a seat to a powerless freshman Democrat, if that seat is taken away from a scoundrel like McConnell. Precisely because he does us more harm than any freshman Democrat could. Especially if the Republicans still have the majority in the senate.
And only this, throwing McConnell into “the pit”, will be enough to rattle the leadership when the next convention is held.
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