Republican Candidate in 2012?

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@Brian Rucker

It’ll be a Palin.

The Republicans will have a good chance to come back in 2016. Palin will blow it in 2012. The “movement” GOP will be in total disarray. Obama likely won’t have a clear successor. The Democrats may well have overreached. The fiscal, moderate and libertarian conservatives will have a real chance to take their party back.

I think this is what the fundamentalist-wacko far right wing wants. McCain was not their candidate of choice and I think they will move strongly to try and take control of the party, in which case a Palin run in 2012 could happen. Personally, I think she looked like a complete ditz even with the party in a fully scripted and chaperoned campaign, and running without that will just make her an even bigger laughing stock than she currently is. But it might be for the best - let her lead the Republicans to a disaster of Biblical proportions and break the fundamentalist power all at once followed by a complete regrouping for 2016.

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@Funkula

Santorum!

Seriously, right there on the floor! Could someone clean it up?

Not sure how I rediscovered my own thread, but you get second place!

Seriously!

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@Brian Rucker

Bobby Jindal would be the smart move but can he get nominated by the GOP? Only possible if they have another nominating process that splits the Christian Right’s vote again and they’re so hot for teacher, I mean Palin, that Jindal’s not going to get enough traction.

Yes. That means the Republicans will go down in flames in 2012 unless events really jumble things up. But they need to do a Palin move before the leveller heads can prevail once more. As long as they think they weren’t crazy enough they need to take the crazy one more step beyond.

Jindal has modest appeal to social conservatives but he’s wonky enough to pitch himself to libertarians and moderates. Not sure about the whole charisma thing. I don’t really see that. But he does seem competant. A Romney/Jindal ticket would have some appeal to the political middle and folks who want sober and intelligent folks running the country.

Not getting that’s what gets The Base excited.

I think you are the only one who mentioned Romney, so you da winnah! Don’t spend your winnings all in one place (which were embezzled anyway).

Edit in: Awarded posthumously. Sigh. Rest in peace, Brian.

[Omniscia]

@corsair

I think you are the only one who mentioned Romney, so you da winnah! Don’t spend your winnings all in one place (which were embezzled anyway).

Dude, you mentioned him in your original post!

[HumanTon]

Ah, the wild wacky days of 2008, when people thought Bobby Jindal’s chances at national officer might last longer than one prime-time speech and that Sarah Palin could make it all the way to 2012 without giving up.

[Kool_Moe_Dee]

@corsair

I think you are the only one who mentioned Romney, so you da winnah! Don’t spend your winnings all in one place (which were embezzled anyway).

Uh, I’m not sure Brian is going to be doing that…

[John_Many_Jars]

Bobby J showed the world just how phony he really is with that speech. And they also made him up much too thickly (to cover his ice-pick acne scars), which helped to communicate what kind of person was talking.

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@Omniscia

Dude, you mentioned him in your original post!

Kinda tacky to award myself first.

[yamo_yamo]

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