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Obama 2016? (What if 2012 Isn’t Obama’s Last Campaign?)
National Review ^ | 8-15-2012 | Jim Geraghty _ Commentary

Posted on 08/15/2012 12:02:43 PM PDT by smoothsailing

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1 posted on 08/15/2012 12:02:49 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

Even if the same-sex marriage endorsement gets him points in 2016, the American people will be living under the bad parts of Obamacare by then. And his name is fully attached to that and the Dems will not be able to get people to believe Romney ‘did it’ to them. He will own it - and it will be his legacy.


2 posted on 08/15/2012 12:06:48 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: smoothsailing

I think so much of Obama’s rise to the White House rode on the novelty of him being black. Given this, I don’t think he stands a chance of ever being re-elected if he loses this one.


3 posted on 08/15/2012 12:07:13 PM PDT by chaos_5
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To: smoothsailing

I don’t think so. Most Democrats seem to begrudgingly support him this time around ... but I don’t get the feeling they’re all that enthusiastic about it.

If he loses, he won’t be nominated come 2016. If no one else, Hillary will trounce him.

SnakeDoc


4 posted on 08/15/2012 12:07:36 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("I've shot people I like more for less." -- Raylan Givens, Justified)
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To: smoothsailing

Him and Jimmah can go pound nails together....preferably into each other..........


5 posted on 08/15/2012 12:08:34 PM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: 5thGenTexan

That’s laughable. IF he ends up winning, than Americans are more stupid than ever and/or he’s really got a handle on fraud. And that is the ONLY way I see him winning now, is by fraud, theft and complete thuggery.

Somehow I think a good majority of Americans have woken up and see what he is, if not the Democrats, and what they are leading us to.

So if he loses now, the idea of him running again in 2016 is a joke.


6 posted on 08/15/2012 12:10:40 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: Red Badger

Oh, I thought this was going to be about term limits are only for White presidents.


7 posted on 08/15/2012 12:10:46 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: smoothsailing

I don’t think the Dems would fight to give Obama a third term as it means that Republicans would also get a chance at a third term.

But, he wouldn’t be the first president that hoofed it back to the Senate after leaving the presidency.


8 posted on 08/15/2012 12:10:51 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: smoothsailing
Obama isn't wrapped too tight now. Another 4 continuous years of campaigning will unhinge him.
9 posted on 08/15/2012 12:11:21 PM PDT by AU72
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To: smoothsailing
Mitt good - gets rid of Obama in 2012. America doesn't disappear or become the U.N. or a third-world country.

Mitt bad - he's actually elected and runs things for four years without much, if any, vision. Another Bush-type "In-Box" POTUS. What happens in 2016? Even if he's re-elected in 2016, unless something changes regarding Mitt Romney, 2020 would also be a concern.

10 posted on 08/15/2012 12:13:08 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Red Badger

LOL!


11 posted on 08/15/2012 12:16:11 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: smoothsailing

You’ll see Obama in 2016 if he loses in 2012 and Romney has not put America back to work.


12 posted on 08/15/2012 12:17:13 PM PDT by ex-snook (without forgiveness there is no Christianity)
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To: smoothsailing
Being Obama is the evil, conniving, calculating turkey that he is I believe it probable he'll try but pulling it off is another thing.

I truly believe he'll be another ex pres like Carter that's not about to go away.

13 posted on 08/15/2012 12:17:51 PM PDT by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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If the republicans grew, borrowed, stole, rented or cloned a “set”, Obama would be forced to run his 2016 campaign from a prison cell.

Yes, I am a dreamer and have a wild imagination.


14 posted on 08/15/2012 12:18:57 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Obama will qualify as Secy General of the UN. After all..he is from a corrupt third world country and has communist background.


15 posted on 08/15/2012 12:19:20 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: smoothsailing

This is not the first time I have considered the possibility that Obama may pull a Grover Cleveland on us.


16 posted on 08/15/2012 12:19:34 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Businessmen are more trustworthy than professors, politicians and preachers.)
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To: smoothsailing

I have a different opinion from the author. I don’t think he’d accept defeat should Romney win the election, and I don’t think either of the other branches of government would do anything about it. Hell, I don’t think the Secret Service, Marshals, a Sheriff, or the FBI would do anything about it either.

The only “constitution” Obama believes in has red covers both front and back.


17 posted on 08/15/2012 12:22:00 PM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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I don’t know if dear leader will win (granted, three months ago, I didn’t think the Supreme court would rule such a blatantly anti-individual rights bill constitutional), but I think a very large outbreak of violence, plus a run through the Supreme court is guaranteed. I would be extremely surprised if dear leader didn’t at least make a symbolic gesture of challenging his defeat on racial grounds.


18 posted on 08/15/2012 12:24:55 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: smoothsailing

This is one of those things I will happily worry about AFTER Romney drives the Marxist Homo-in-Chief from the White Hut.


19 posted on 08/15/2012 12:25:13 PM PDT by GnL
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When Obama is removed from office he will go into a very deep depression that will lead to hard drug use. In a few years I wouldn’t be at all suprized to hear he was found in an alley dead of an overdose.


20 posted on 08/15/2012 12:27:24 PM PDT by WellyP (question!)
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