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How big will the Republican presidential field be (and does it matter)?
Wash Post ^ | 2/2/11 | Chris Cilliza

Posted on 02/02/2011 7:21:05 PM PST by pissant

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To: pissant

I predict it will be MUCH smaller now that Obama’s numbers have gone back up.


21 posted on 02/02/2011 7:59:30 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

And get much bigger if several states pass the proof of birth legislation.


22 posted on 02/02/2011 8:00:25 PM PST by pissant ((Bachmann 2012 - Freepmail to get on/off PING list))
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To: freedomfiter2

I thought Michigan had a pretty good selection of Republican candidates for Governor going into the primary. They ended up splitting the votes and we ended up with a pretty liberal candidate. At least he beat the really liberal Dem though, and handily.


23 posted on 02/02/2011 8:03:15 PM PST by stayathomemom (Beware of cat attacks while typing!)
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To: pissant

Skip Romney.

Guyis definitely touring everywhere and he is running but I hope he runs out of gas first.


24 posted on 02/02/2011 8:06:22 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: DTogo

Hmmmm....

I had thought she was taller but who cares?

Beautiful, witty, charming and smart.

Mom, Business Woman, Wife.

What the hell would you want in a candidate?


25 posted on 02/02/2011 8:08:00 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: pissant

I thought Napolean was dead?


26 posted on 02/02/2011 8:08:52 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This could be bad for Romney—Huntsman could split the Mormon vote. But it’s hard to imagine Huntsman becoming as well known as Romney. Does he have as much money? Does he have good hair?


27 posted on 02/02/2011 8:09:05 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: matthew fuller

I’ll take that list.

Weed the other Poseurs out soon.


28 posted on 02/02/2011 8:10:02 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I’m thinking Huntsman will blunt Romney and they both fail the primary but, I hope they do it before Christmas.


29 posted on 02/02/2011 8:12:11 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: thecodont

Genie is out of the bottle now though, the R’s will find their own overseas pipelines of campaign cash.

Sadly this is like an arms race, once one side does it and gets away with it, the other side will have to do the same or be left behind.

And at the end of it all, that is squarely the American People’s fault, “if’ Joe and Jane paid more attention to politics and the state of the nation, or even their State, such mounds of campaign cash would do no good as people just would not buy the lies and distortions.

They don’t, for most part people believe what they see and rely on their instincts rather than their thoughts.


30 posted on 02/02/2011 8:13:13 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: padre35
If the Tea Party isn't on board with the nominee, it's all over. We will stay home this time (figuratively; we'll be voting for Tea Party House and Senate candidates.)

At the very least, we have to have the second spot on the ticket.

31 posted on 02/02/2011 8:15:15 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: matthew fuller
"I can support Huntsman, as well as Cain"

My prior sentiment was "confused" because I thought we were discussing JH Sr. I know nothing about Jr.

32 posted on 02/02/2011 8:18:38 PM PST by matthew fuller (My list: Bachman, Barbour, Bolton, Cain, Liz Cheney, Daniels, DeMint, Inhofe, Palin, and Pawlenty .)
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To: matthew fuller

No to Huntsman. Anyone who served with The Rookie should be immediately disqualified and drummed out of the party.


33 posted on 02/02/2011 8:25:36 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: matthew fuller

“Junior” was former Gov of Utah, and served as Ambassador to China in The Rookie’s administration. The only reason he’s so high on the media’s list is because he served in the Obama administration.


34 posted on 02/02/2011 8:27:35 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: matthew fuller
My favorites are in my tagline.

Yeah, and Pawlenty is a big government RINO like Myth Romney.

35 posted on 02/02/2011 8:29:31 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (In 2012: The Rookie and The Wookie get booted from the White House.)
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To: buccaneer81

Well the Tea Party is one of the reasons for the strength and weaknesses of the R ticket this time around, a sort of Constitutionalist Sensibility meets what I’ll call the “Gucci Loafer” faction of the Republican Party.

Wonder who they would put in the #2 part of the ticket?


36 posted on 02/02/2011 8:39:43 PM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: padre35

Palin/Cain looks pretty good at this point.


37 posted on 02/02/2011 8:54:36 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Vendome

I agree. Skip Pretty Boy and the guitar player.


38 posted on 02/02/2011 9:01:31 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: pissant
Both Huntsman and Romneys are RINOs who worked with,
supported, and created things used by, pRes_ _ent Obama.

And THAT is why NEITHER is in the real picture...
except as GOP spoilers for their own buddies, Obama and Reid.

Click here for HARRY info

39 posted on 02/03/2011 2:25:27 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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