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What to expect in 2013 (Predicts presidential run by Palin, AWB, another Pelosi speakership)
The Washington Post ^ | December 28, 2012 | Colbert I. King

Posted on 01/01/2013 12:38:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

This year has been quite a storm. Three hundred sixty-five days in a cyclone with fierce weather on all fronts: an economy tossing around in fits and starts; politics stalled by fog and precipitation, with heavy rains arriving in the fall to wash away Republican hopes of winning the White House and both houses of Congress.

What about the coming year?

No doubt we will again find ourselves at year’s end shaking our heads and contemplating what has happened, especially the unexpected.

Here are a few of my educated guesses — and a bit of speculation — about what 2013 has in store.

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●In the fullness of time, following the New Year’s celebration, leaders of the conservative-dominated GOP (Republicans Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. are in tears) will prostrate themselves and acknowledge that the unceremonious rejection of Republicans on election night had nothing to do with the “gifts” Mitt Romney charged were given to the “47 percent” of Americans by President Obama but, rather, that 63 million Americans didn’t think much of a political brand that has been hijacked by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, the tea party and other assorted right-wingers. Following that cathartic event, intraparty bloodletting will begin.

●Sarah Palin will try her hand at a series of economic, domestic and foreign policy speeches to signal a presidential run in 2016. Media will be ecstatic. Party stalwarts will be apoplectic.

●Democrats will launch a ground war singularly focused on retaking the House in 2014. Nancy Pelosi, accompanied by a surprise combatant, President Obama, will lead the charge...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2016election; banglist; democrats; election2014; election2016; guncontrol; obama; palin; pelosi; secondamendment; talkradio; teaparty
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To: Salamander
I just got a thrill up my leg. 3:/
81 posted on 01/01/2013 8:04:42 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: 50mm
That thrilled leg best be hiking it back to the cellar...or else.


82 posted on 01/01/2013 8:10:06 PM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: Salamander

Cat o’ nine tails! Headed down now. Don’t keep me waiting.


83 posted on 01/01/2013 8:23:48 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the fullness of time, following the New Year’s celebration, leaders of the conservative-dominated GOP

Stopped reading right here. Especially after tonight's charade in the House, it is obvious that conservatives have NOTHING to do with running the Grand Old Plantation.

Those of us who refused to buy into the Myth Romney charade in November are being proven more right about the Republican Party each day.

84 posted on 01/01/2013 8:41:23 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: 50mm

Remember the game “Chutes And Ladders”?

I’ve invented a new one.

I call it “Snakes And Leathers”.

[I’ll leave the light on fer ya]

;]


85 posted on 01/01/2013 9:39:22 PM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: Salamander; 50mm
A sweet ballad to accompany your tryst. (Crank it UP!)
86 posted on 01/01/2013 9:42:24 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi
Psychedelic music plays.

Wow, man! Bad blotter! {looks for his elephant bells and paisleys}


87 posted on 01/01/2013 9:55:10 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: 50mm

Did you really listen to the song all the way through?


88 posted on 01/01/2013 9:58:35 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi
I had the album at one time.


89 posted on 01/01/2013 10:14:12 PM PST by 50mm (Trust nobody and you'll never be disappointed.)
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To: 50mm

I did too.

But I got hungry one day and ate the banana.


90 posted on 01/01/2013 10:26:15 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: shibumi

Disturbing.

I like it.


91 posted on 01/01/2013 10:29:46 PM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: Salamander

Thank you.

I Fink You Freaky Too.


92 posted on 01/01/2013 10:42:22 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just ignore the troll(s) folks and do not feed them!


93 posted on 01/02/2013 4:05:59 AM PST by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Democrat_media

I think Ms. Palin gets plenty of advice, frankly. :D

Leave her to think this through in peace.


94 posted on 01/02/2013 7:56:13 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: shibumi
Thank yew.

Thank yew vurry mush.


95 posted on 01/02/2013 8:48:10 AM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: Navy Patriot
Sarah Palin’s non candidacy has nothing to do with her quality as a candidate, and everything to do with the quality of the GOP as a party.

Well now; at least two FReepers see it this way. And I, for one, have known this for more than four years. Thank you.
96 posted on 01/02/2013 9:00:33 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero
...at least two FReepers see it this way.

There's more of us than that.

97 posted on 01/02/2013 9:22:27 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Navy Patriot
There's more of us than that.

Sometimes, the posting flak is so heavy on a SP FR thread, it's difficult to be sure. Okay, maybe there are four or five of us.
98 posted on 01/02/2013 9:40:12 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: Resettozero

LOL, Happy New Year!


99 posted on 01/02/2013 9:50:03 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
but, rather, that 63 million Americans didn’t think much of a political brand that has been hijacked by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, the tea party and other assorted right-wingers.

Sorry there King, it was because of Baraq O'claus, and uninformed idiots like you who voted for the marxist.

5.56mm

100 posted on 01/02/2013 9:54:33 AM PST by M Kehoe
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