Posted on 12/26/2013 8:07:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Predictions for 2014 point to a very good year for Republicans, who have a chance to put behind the losses of 2012 with a good shot at winning the Senate and a surprise presidential candidate waiting in the wings.
The past year was something of a rebound for the GOP. After raising hopes of holding off Obama from being re-elected — and an entire election season painting him as incapable — Republicans were stunned by his seemingly easy re-election over Mitt Romney in 2012.
Beaten but not defeated, Republicans spent 2013 quietly building up the next generation of leaders, including possible presidential candidate Marco Rubio, a Senator from Florida. In New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cruised to re-election, gaining steam toward what could be a run of his own.
But predictions for 2014 show another dark horse candidate who may be building a resume for a presidential run — Sarah Palin.
After spending much of the last few years away from the spotlight, Palin made a number of appearances in Iowa, one of the most important state for Republican hopefuls.
Palin also ramped up her political attacks on President Obama, in what many see as a potential groundwork for her 2016 platform.
In a Facebook post entitled “Obama’s Debt Default is on His Shoulders While We Shoulder His Impeachable Offenses,” Palin said President Obama was to blame for the debt ceiling fight.
“Defaulting on our national debt is an impeachable offense, and any attempt by President Obama to unilaterally raise the debt limit without Congress is also an impeachable offense,” Palin wrote.
If Sarah Palin does have ideas of running for election in 2016, next year would be the time for her to increase her public appearances and speak out on more issues.
Other predictions for 2014 point to a resurgence for Republicans in Washington.
Nate Silver, the statistician who gained fame for his poll analysis system that was nearly dead-on in the 2008 and 2012 elections, believes that Republicans have a good chance of taking control of the Senate from Democrats in 2014. Posted on his site FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s predictions for 2014 slowly began tilting toward Republicans. With 46 seats in the Senate, the GOP would need to flip a few races in order to gain majority. Silver said that Republicans can go on the offensive in 2014, winning the seats needed to retake the Senate for the first time in nearly a decade.
“A race-by-race analysis of the Senate, in fact, suggests that Republicans might now be close to even-money to win control of the chamber after next year’s elections. Our best guess, after assigning probabilities of the likelihood of a G.O.P. pickup in each state, is that Republicans will end up with somewhere between 50 and 51 Senate seats after 2014, putting them right on the threshold of a majority.”
If the predictions for 2014 pan out, Republicans would have much greater control in Washington for the last two years of President Obama’s term. And if predictions on Sarah Palin come to fruition, 2016 might be even better.
“I’ve been behind her ever since she ran for Vice President.”
She never ran for vice president. Lots of people actually do run for VP. They know they won’t win the Potus nomination but a lot of them figure a good showing will get them the vp job.
Sarah has not run for anything since 2006 and she quit that job soon after.
Dont’ worry karl rove predicts......................
With 25 such charges, at twenty five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) each she was approaching a half million dollars. The Palins were comfortable, but not rich. These charges were bankrupting them, threatening a lifetime of hard work.They were also taking up most of her time, making her unable to run the State.
As an aside, they also cost the State a whopping $2.1 MILLION dollars. She knew that these scurrilous Charges would continue, the State would be left leaderless and the Palins would be bankrupt.
She also knew she could make a lot of money writing a book and thwart the enemy by resigning, She also put a leader back at the helm.
BTW All the ethics charges, save one minor one were proven false. The one was over failing to pay full airfare on her daughter, Piper.
Since then, she has made a small fortune writing books and driving the Liberal Demonrats crazy. You go, Sarah.
Seems to me Sarah is having a pretty good year now. She’s with her family, promoting a book she just wrote, and appearing on TV when she wants to.
I think we need to take her at her word when she said she didn’t want to run for office. Getting excited because she went to Iowa, taking that as evidence she’s going to run for office is going to lead to disappointment for folks.
“When will people like you stop calling Sarah a quitter.”
I’ll stop calling her a quitter when the disciples of the church of Saint Sarah stop worshiping her and the over hyped gas bag actually does something like run for something.
Sarah is a decent enough person but like all people has plenty of faults too. She is not the second coming and she will not save the country.
And despite a loyal worshipping following that wanted her to run for president, she quit before she even started on that quest in 2012.
Then go ahead and move into a cave.
I’m already there.. grasshopper..
We don’t need a third party..
What we need is a second party..
That's why Palin has to run for office again! Personally, I'd like to see her in the US Senate.
Right now Palin is a kingmaker, of sorts. Being in the Senate wouldn't lessen that too much. And as a senator, Palin would get much more coverage. She could call official news conferences, ask the tough questions at senate hearings, etc.
It would cause every liberal in the country to have hissy fits.
Ahhhh I see it now. Glad there is still one floating around ;)
Begich is a soft target. He won in the “Obama year” of 2008 with a Clintonian plurality.
Wellllll..... You know what I mean.
You know that I aim to raise $2 million dollars for any ticket that she’s on.
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