Posted on 02/07/2007 6:21:25 AM PST by Blackirish
The nominees for the 2008 presidential race will be selected in 2007. The tempo of the new political process, driven by 24-hour cable news, Internet bloggers, conservative talk radio, and liberal NPR is so rapid that the nomination race cannot exist in stasis waiting for Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina to get around to holding their votes in early 2008. Well before they open their caucuses or polling places, this nomination, in each party, will have been decided by the national media coverage during 2007.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Little dickie should stick to prostitutes toes.
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Non-sense. Not too many people are happy with the current field. One mention from Oprah and Obama is an overnight sensation. Perot when he ran took off overnight. Nothing is settled until the votes start rolling in.
CNN, WMUR and The New Hampshire Union Leader will hold the back-to-back debates on April 4 and 5, the first such events to be held of the 2008 presidential campaign. CNN's Wolf Blitzer will moderate the debates with questions coming from WMUR's Scott Spradling and Union-Leader's John DiStaso. WMUR's Jennifer Vaughn will be moderating questions from the audience. The debate will be televised live nationally on CNN and throughout New Hampshire on WMUR.
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/primdeb08/cnnwmurul011207.html
Not so sure I want to stay very involved this cycle. It's going to be very long and very vitriolic. I'm already taking ranitidine.
In understand Middle Earth voters were disenfrancised in the last election.
You're kidding me!! Where did the time go??? I can't believe only two months. YIKES!
Your best bet is to just sit back, relax and let everyone else get high blood pressure! ;-)
This is from toe-sucker Morris. Don't lose sleep.
You made my day Sir Francis, you only missed Russert and the perky one.
Shhhhhh. Haven't you heard, Rudy has already tied up the nomination; AND he's a conservative! Don't question it, just go along with it.
Is that Barney Fag as Saruman?
That's what they said about Dean this far out.
Nope ...the old models are broken. They front-loaded the primaries and cash the mothers milk of politics has got to get rolling right now. Besides the extremes of either party are never
"Non-sense. Not too many people are happy with the current field"
The Base ...teachers unions...woman...love Hillary.....she doubles her rivals in most polling.
The base likes Rudy and with no Socon on the horizen he's nailing it down.
Feb. 5, 2008, will be Super-Duper Tuesday with, perhaps, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Utah voting on the same day..
Think about that. That means that some obscure nominee won't be able to go to IA and NH shake some hands and come from nowhere.
They will need an entire national ground game and close to 100 million to buy radio and TV ads within a few months.
They have to make the ads ....hire thousands of people..pollsters...consultants...the logistics in this time constraints are staggering.
There are 5-6 people in the country who can pull that off. Rudy,Romney,McCaine, Hillary and maybe Obama, Colin Powell,Edwards.
They front loaded the primaries. It's pretty much game over. Unless Rudy runs as a liberal...which we know he won't..or pulls a Dean Scream...he's to smart for that...game over.....only Romney could keep up...and he's not so bad. McCaine is too damaged and old and he has stabbed too many Repub suits in the back ...the long knives are looking for payback.
It's Rudy's and Hillary's to lose.
Anyone polling in single digits is already toast.
I think Morris might be right on this. But if so, then we are in for a difficult 4 years.
Simply put, Rudy can't win the presidency. Conservatives who usually vote Republican will not vote for someone who is pro-abortion (even partial birth!) and is seen as a friend of the homosexual agenda. Additionally, if voters want to vote for a liberal -- why not just pull the lever for Hillary?
If Rudy is the nominee, Hillary will be the Queen (er, President). And if that happens, as much as I hate it, America will deserve exactly what she gets.
Patriot Preacher
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