Steve Forbes: Perry will win the White House

Brainster said:
Just for fun, I thought I'd mention that Perry's candidacy cratered last night during the debate. In fact, he did so poorly and Obama himself is so wounded that Christie and Palin are now seriously considering getting into the race.
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Really? Have you read something that gives any reason to think their previous reluctance has changed? I'd like to read more.

Brainster said:
I still say, hello President Candidate Romney.
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....depending on the economy. If - as I believe - we're in another deep recession a year from now, then you may be right about the title to be used.
 
bikerdruid said:
perry for president.
wow...americans sure have one heck of an inferiority complex.
out of 300 million plus people, you would think there was a real, viable, capable candidate somewhere.
why do you set your aspirations so abysmally low?
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I guess you never heard of Walter Mondale.

The GOP are showing me, since about the 2006 election cycle, some serious political ineptitude. I don't see their allowing the media to direct the message of their candidate pool (which is what these phony TV debate things are, letting the media direct your message delivery) as an intelligent strategy.

With that in mind, one of the compliments paid to President Obama by people who worked with him was his strategic thinking, at least in terms of how to win an election. I am pretty sure he's thinking strategically now, and has been for some time, regarding the 2012 election. The GOP don't show me the same sort of preparation.

This disparity in unity of purpose tells me that barring a colossal screw up on the part of President Obama, or, an immense "coming out of the woodwork" grassroots effort that gets folks who rarely vote to vote GOP, he's got a second term well in hand.

His political opponents are dividing and conquering themselves for him. He'll accept that gift graciously, and proceed on.

That's how it looks today.
 
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Darth Rotor said:
....an immense "coming out of the woodwork" grassroots effort that gets folks who rarely vote to vote GOP,....
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...is virtually inevitable, and evidence for this is the several recent "special elections", which give you an idea of what the people think, as well as the 2010 elections...
 
Darth Rotor said:
The GOP are showing me, since about the 2006 election cycle, some serious political ineptitude. I don't see their allowing the media to direct the message of their candidate pool (which is what these phony TV debate things are, letting the media direct your message delivery) as an intelligent strategy.
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What do you think they can do about it? The news media has been broken for over a decade now. They never controlled it before, they just happened to be in a place where the brokenness aided them.
 
mhaze said:
...is virtually inevitable, and evidence for this is the several recent "special elections", which give you an idea of what the people think, as well as the 2010 elections...
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Not to vote for a Mormon, they won't.
 
Alferd_Packer said:
Not to vote for a Mormon, they won't.
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I agree with this statement. People had heartburn about voting for Kennedy, a Roman Catholic. Mormons give the mainstream the heebie jeebies, may as well declare yourself a member of the church of Satan. Now if an atheist republican comes out of the woodwork I would be very interested in his platform.
 
Does the Republican party even want to win in 2012? Surely they must be tempted to leave the Democrats in power during the current economic woes -- not to mention with the political pain of pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq -- and aim for 2016 instead.
 
Leif Roar said:
Does the Republican party even want to win in 2012? Surely they must be tempted to leave the Democrats in power during the current economic woes -- not to mention with the political pain of pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq -- and aim for 2016 instead.
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why?

run away from a couple problems?

well, maybe more than a couple.

okay, well, those problems all over the place.

So....like....I'm just gonna go watch that movie 2012 and see what we r up against.
 
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