I’ll be saying a lot of I-told-you-so. It goes like this:
If 0bama announces he’s running for reelection, no Democrat will dare to challenge him for the nomination. Therefore the Dem primaries will be foregone conclusions and nobody will have to vote in them. Then, all the Democrats will be free to switch parties for the purpose of voting in Republican primaries, hoping to secure the nomination of the weakest Republican in the herd. And that’s not Sarah Palin.
Dems will vote for “anybody but Palin” in Republican primaries. They fear her, with good reason.
We need to do something to avert this possibility, and do it now, not later.
Hillary might if his record remains as terrible as it has been. These people want to stay in power and a tanking Obama they are not going to let take them down with him. They’ll save their own asses before going down with the SS Obama.
We need closed primaries, and we need the first primaries to be in conservative states.
My Bet is that Hillary will challenge Obama after a public fight with him (this is only if his poll numbers drop)and I think she can win in the end. What ever the GOP does is up in the air—it could go anyway. I just don’t want the same old faces—no Bushes, no Mitts, No Rudi Tooties, No McClaims. Let the Conservatives have a chance this time.
You don’t think anyone will challenge Zero? I’m thinking if he keeps on like this he may be vulnerable from within.
If 0bama announces he’s running for reelection, no Democrat will dare to challenge him for the nomination. Therefore the Dem primaries will be foregone conclusions and nobody will have to vote in them. Then, all the Democrats will be free to switch parties for the purpose of voting in Republican primaries, hoping to secure the nomination of the weakest Republican in the herd. And that’s not Sarah Palin.
Dems will vote for “anybody but Palin” in Republican primaries. They fear her, with good reason. We need to do something to avert this possibility, and do it now, not later.
That is precisely my concern as well. But, with the leadership the party has now I confess I see no obvious answer other than for all primary voters to recognize the "Operation Chaos" scenario if it unfolds, and unify around a candidate whom conservatives can enthusiastically support.And IMHO the logical person for that role is: Sarah Palin.
The question is how to keep a Huckabee from splitting the conservative vote. And perhaps in that context the threat of a split is as necessary as it is unavoidable. Perhaps the best outcome of this book tour would be a
Draft Palin movement, before anyone else has a chance to lay the groundwork for a run.