Posted on 12/13/2011 7:28:51 PM PST by Bigtigermike
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that we do not know who the GOP presidential nominee will be:
It could be Mitt Romneythough our warnings in this space a couple of weeks ago that his victory is by no means inevitable seem increasingly justified by the dynamics of the race.
The nominee could be Newt Gingrichwhose rise in the polls has been spectacular, and whose skills and appeal are still widely underestimated by many elites, including conservative elites
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It could be someone not yet in the race. If the Gingrich surge turns into a Newt bubble, and if there continue s to be the present level of resistance to Romney, then anyone from Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin to Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels, Marco Rubio, or Jeb Bushor someone else!
Let me repeat, with emphasis: We REALLY do not know who the GOP nominee will be.
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2012 Primary Schedule
The 2012 GOP primary/caucus schedule is nearly set in stone. The calendar dates below are believed to be accurate unless last minute changes occur to the schedule. Always check with your local board of elections to verify election dates, times and locations ahead of time. Note that “Super Tuesday” in 2012 falls on March 6th, however, it is a little less “super” than it has been in years past.
Full Primary/Caucus Calendar
January 3, 2012
Iowa (caucus)
January 10, 2012
New Hampshire (primary)
January 21, 2012
South Carolina (primary)
January 31, 2012
Florida (primary)
February 4, 2012
Nevada (caucus)
February 411, 2012
Maine (caucus)
February 7, 2012
Colorado (caucus)
Minnesota (caucus)
Missouri (primary) *See note below on Missouri
February 28, 2012
Arizona (primary)
Michigan (primary)
March 3, 2012
Washington (caucus)
March 6, 2012
(Super Tuesday)
Alaska (caucus)
Georgia (primary)
Idaho (caucus)
Massachusetts (primary)
North Dakota (caucus)
Ohio (primary)
Oklahoma (primary)
Tennessee (primary)
Texas (primary)
Vermont (primary)
Virginia (primary)
March 6-10, 2012
Wyoming (caucus)
March 10, 2012
Kansas (caucus)
U.S. Virgin Islands (caucus)
March 13, 2012
Alabama (primary)
Hawaii (caucus)
Mississippi (primary)
March 17, 2012
Missouri (GOP caucus) *See note below on Missouri
March 20, 2012
Illinois (primary)
March 24, 2012
Louisiana (primary)
April 3, 2012
District of Columbia (primary)
Maryland (primary)
Wisconsin (primary)
April 24, 2012
Connecticut (primary)
Delaware (primary)
New York (primary)
Pennsylvania (primary)
Rhode Island (primary)
May 8, 2012
Indiana (primary)
North Carolina (primary)
West Virginia (primary)
May 15, 2012
Nebraska (primary)
Oregon (primary)
May 22, 2012
Arkansas (primary)
Kentucky (primary)
June 5, 2012
California (primary)
Montana (primary)
New Jersey (primary)
New Mexico (primary)
South Dakota (primary)
June 26, 2012
Utah (primary)
I think that everyone will know by early Feb that Newt is the nominee.
I noticed that. My hopes are with Perry.
....because of rule changes and Punishment for moving primaries up early, these early primaries equate to just 15% of the delegates needed....most if the other states filing happens later on by February
Or Gingrich/Alan West!!!!
Gingrich/Alan West!!!!
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I could certainly live with that, but I would still prefer Marco Rubio.
Didn’t know that James Warren DeMint and I had the same middle name. Now, I’m convinced he is the best person for the job. LOL!
Gingrich aint pickin Rubio..
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Why is that? If what you say is true, then I’d rather have Gingrich and “somebody else” rather than Romney/Rubio.
Can you, or any other Rubio booster here, post ANYTHING that he has done (other than get elected to the US Senate, where he has served less than two years) which makes him REMOTELY qualified for the Presidency or Vice Presidency?
Please don't compare him to Obama in terms of experience - we know how that turned out.
I doubt Perry even comes in third. He blew his chance. Ron Paul will get more votes than him.
I’ve been against him from the jump but the disgusting thing is even he compares favorably to Gingrich.
I am seeing all the projections that there will NOT be an election. That all the efforts and fundraising, fighting and feces slinging will be a waste of time and manpower because the Obama machine has a plan to keep him in office.
Not that we shouldn’t quit but we must think ahead.
They cannot fabricate enough illegal votes, they have been successful at removing the most vocal and effective opposition so far but still they are like rats in a bucket, cornered and still dangerous.
It would be very prudent to prepare for the time and place should it be announced that no election will be held due to some national emergency, I have almost no doubt something will “innocently” appear.
Perhaps Iran will have copied and built several drone clones and manages to release them over a major theme park or the Daytona 500, or even an attack upon the Whitehouse.
Regardless of what may happen we all should keep in focus what would happen should this actually happen.
The established Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic infiltration, the overall weakening of America through the military to the economy is the Cloward Piven plan, excuse my spelling, they will NOT just surrender, they must be hunted down and destroyed, there can be “no peace” much like a scene from the movie, “Independence Day”.
If true, I could be very happy with Ryan.
He did if you read the entire article.
I love the sound of that, and I will enjoy voting for (future) President Palin more than anything else I can imagine. However, I don't believe a new candidate will enter the race and get the 2012 GOPnomination, not even her. My prayers are that Sarah will enter the 2016 race early, and that America will survive that long despite the dangers we face from enemies, foreign and domestic.
And he might drop it on his cute little toes!
Ewww! Isn't Juan "Lettuce" McBackstabbingaislereachingcommie dead yet?
"Yasser, arafat!"
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