Posted on 09/23/2010 6:16:30 AM PDT by facedodge
Jeb? Never again will another Bush successfully run. OVER . Newt? Sell out.
The only thing Mitt is next in line for is the men’s room.
I don’t think there’s really a “next in line.” Traditionally, the next in line seems to have gained his status by previously losing a string of primaries in earlier elections or even having lost the election itself when he was the candidate; this automatically means that he somehow “deserves” another shot. Poor thing, he’s been around so long, running and failing, that let’s let him mess up the really big one this time around...
They’re usually older and have been party fixtures for years, and are almost always liberal.
Fortunately, I think almost all of the possible candidates for “next in line” have either died, retired or gotten such a long-standing bad rep that even the GOP wouldn’t dare suggest them.
The only one who even nearly fits that description this time is Romney, and, of course, he’s the only one I really, truly wouldn’t vote for. I hope they don’t try to stick us with him. But he’s a weasel, and he has a lot of money of his own, like John Kerry, so he may be considering it.
Still, I think they may actually be forced to go with somebody new this time. Maybe that should be our slogan: No more retreads!
The "next-in line" tag is a media construct.
Oh, okay...
The GOP nomination has traditionally gone to someone who has run in a prior Presidential primary and lost.
not just McCain and Dole but also Reagan, GHW Bush, Nixon, all the way back to Dewey. Only exceptions seem to have been Eisenhower who had universal name ID, George W Bush who also had near universal name ID due to his father and Ford who had never sought the Presidency but ascended to it through circumstance.
Ford and Rockefeller rigged the convention.
We need to make sure they know we will not support another McCain type. Mitt Romney has too much baggage i.e. (Romneycare). The dims will kill him on that and he insists on standing by it. If he had been smart he would have disavowed it two years ago and it would have been off the charts by now....but he did not!
Don’t over think this. The answer is simple—we pick the constitutionalist candidate.
They will be known by their actions over the long term, not by prepared campaign statements.
Huckabee and Romney are from the ruling class. Many currently in congress are also beholden to the ruling class.
We need a candidate of the people.
Bolton... I don’t know if he’s “next in line” but I have a feeling if the guy decides to run, he’ll make a whole new line.
Barbour/Christie2102
probably but my point was that he had run a very credible national campaign and lost before he ran again and won.
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