Who will be the Republican candidate next election

[SezMe]

Then you have the possibility of a Ross Perot canidate..a independent who will run on a "I am not either of those turkeys" platform. That could have an impact.

Maybe but who has the name, money and platform for a third party run? Bloomberg is the only one I can think of.

 

[leftysergeant]

Maybe but who has the name, money and platform for a third party run? Bloomberg is the only one I can think of.

Bloomberg also has reasonably good sense and would worry about accidently stealing too many votes from Obama and not enough from whatever loser the GOP puts up.

Then we would all be screwed.

 

[dudalb]

Maybe but who has the name, money and platform for a third party run? Bloomberg is the only one I can think of.

Good point, but then Ross Perot did not start his campaign until April of 1992.
And I predict if this does happen, it is going be someone who has had little political involvment, a la Perot. His main appeall is going to be "I am not one of them..a professional Politician".

 

[Cleon]

Of course. It's a left wing media. Remember how the media said Beck

Beck is part of the media.

 

[dudalb]

Maybe but who has the name, money and platform for a third party run? Bloomberg is the only one I can think of.

dp.

 

[Trakar]

Maybe but who has the name, money and platform for a third party run? Bloomberg is the only one I can think of.

I have several foriegn policy and economic issues that I strongly disagree with Bloomberg about, but given the situation likely to exist in 2012 (and beyond) could easily accomodate those differences and support an Independent Bloomberg candidacy,...of course, 2000-2005 I would have said the same things about McCain,...so much would depend upon how an actual Bloomberg candidacy presented itself, not what we currently believe we know about such a candidate and his political perspectives.

 

[Trakar]

Bloomberg also has reasonably good sense and would worry about accidently stealing too many votes from Obama and not enough from whatever loser the GOP puts up.

Then we would all be screwed.

If Bloomberg ran, I don't think he'd be concerned about how many votes he took away from either major party candidate. A lifelong Democrat who changed to Republican and then Independent seems to have a good perspective of the nonsense that are political parties.

 

[ksbluesfan]

Has anybody suggested Phil Davison yet? He gives one heck of a great speech.

 

[Trakar]

Has anybody suggested Phil Davison yet? He gives one heck of a great speech.

Don't know about "great," but its definitely noteworthy.

 

[coalesce]

So it beggars belief sometimes how the patent loonies, drug-addicts and hypocrites seem to be the ones that get to be in office in decision-making positions.

To me, this sounds a bit like how the Moody Blues described some of their fans.

The nice ones would try and get backstage, security would them to please leave and they would then politely go on their way.

The crazy ones plotted and schemed and wouldn't take "no" for an answer and eventually forced their way backstage. Besides, the hypocrites know how to tell you exactly what you want to hear, whether or not they believe or practice it themselves.

Michael

 

[SezMe]

Good point, but then Ross Perot did not start his campaign until April of 1992.
And I predict if this does happen, it is going be someone who has had little political involvment, a la Perot. His main appeall is going to be "I am not one of them..a professional Politician".

If Whitman wins the California governorship, she will immediately carry that ball all the way to the Rep convention...maybe even as a dark horse candidate. That's basically her current campaign in a nutshell.

 

[dudalb]

If Whitman wins the California governorship, she will immediately carry that ball all the way to the Rep convention...maybe even as a dark horse candidate. That's basically her current campaign in a nutshell.

To be fair, a lot of people on BOTH sides of the political spectrum use that gimmick.
IMHO Whitman is almost a lock. When the best the Dems can come up with is a retread like Jerry Brown..........
Of course California is in such a mess that I can understand why few want the job.......

 

[The Charnel Expanse]

Has anybody suggested Phil Davison yet? He gives one heck of a great speech.

I was going to suggest it but I didn't catch the guy's name.

 

[MaGZ]

It would not surprise me that after the Republican Tsunami in November Pat Buchanan will toy with the idea of running as a Republican in 2012. That would be an interesting contest Pat vs. Newt Gingrich, especially when they have a debate on Israel, Iran, and the Middle East.

 

[MaGZ]

Probably Romney. He is helped by the fact that Glen Beck is convincing the hysterical right-wing fundamentalists that Mormons are just as crazy as they are.

I suspect Romney hopes Beck will just shut-up and go away. Just more negative Mormon baggage Romney has to carry.

 

[MaGZ]

Seriously, why would Jindal be considered to be presidential material?

 

[MaGZ]

If Ron Paul mounts another campaign [which he almost certainly won't], his supporters will once again flood the internet with sound and fury and talk of a revolution, and he'll pull in his usual 2-5% of the vote.

If Obama could run for the Presidency with less that two year in the Senate, why not Rand Paul?

 

[MaGZ]

Huckabee could actually be an interesting candidate depending upon who the politics forces him into bed with. Rather like McCain circa 1998 - 2004 instead of the McCain we got in 2007-2008

Huckabee will become the next Paul Harvey.

 

[MaGZ]

You know, I forgot about Huckabee. A Romney-Huckabee ticket could give Obama a run for his money. Romney appeals to the moderates, and Huckabee appeals to the Christian wingnuts and libertarian crowd (with his endorsement of the FairTax).

Mormons and Baptists like oil and water, not going to happen.

 

[MaGZ]

That's not what it means, though I can't account for what Cicero thinks it means, since he's rarely correct about anything.

The GOP has tended to pick people who are establishment picks or whose "time has come," kind of characters. Bush II was an establishment pick whose time hadn't come, and never would have in a sane world. But Reagan, Bush I, Dole and McCain were definite time-has-comers.

This of course has little value in prediction anyway.

This is conventional wisdom, but with the Tea Party Era anything can happen.