With Daniels & Huckabee out will this force a serious look from Christie or Rubio? Who else is on the GOP bench? Right now Cain is the best candidate but Romney has the best apparatus.
I consider Mitch Daniels to be more conservative than the average Republican -- significantly more conservative on fiscal/spending issues, especially - and his non-candidacy is a blow to GOP hopes for winning back the White House next year.
Romney and Pawlenty are now in the driver's seat, so far as the nomination is concerned, with Huntsman waiting in the wings. Very simply, that is a weak batting order, and Republicans need to be honest with themselves about that weakness.
Of course, it is also true that the purpose of the primaries is to come up with a strong nominee, not a strong group of candidates. It may well be that, 12 months from now, one of the GOP candidates will seem much more formidable than they do now. That was certainly true for Barack Obama, who was on top of the world in May 2008, but not really seen as "ready" in May 2007, except by some hardcore Democrat pressure-groups. So we will just have to wait a while and see how this plays out.
(05-22-2011 07:23 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote: I think Christie does take a serious look at this point. At least I hope he does.
Christie would make a good candidate, but I'm originally from NJ and have lots of family and friends there, and with Christie gone, the state will resume its course of going deeper down the sh!tter.
(05-22-2011 07:23 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote: I think Christie does take a serious look at this point. At least I hope he does.
Christie would make a good candidate, but I'm originally from NJ and have lots of family and friends there, and with Christie gone, the state will resume its course of going deeper down the sh!tter.
Yeah, that man can stay there. We don't want his nutty ass as President(not that I think he could win). THis country would be destroyed if he became President-just like he is destroying NJ now.
(05-22-2011 07:23 AM)Ninerfan1 Wrote: I think Christie does take a serious look at this point. At least I hope he does.
Christie would make a good candidate, but I'm originally from NJ and have lots of family and friends there, and with Christie gone, the state will resume its course of going deeper down the sh!tter.
Yeah, that man can stay there. We don't want his nutty ass as President(not that I think he could win). THis country would be destroyed if he became President-just like he is destroying NJ now.
Can you provide one piece of evidence to back this up?
Why would anyone of them want to run against Obama in 2012? THey know they can't win. Many are waiting until 2016 so they don't have to go through the pressure cooker and ruin their chances in 2016 when they have a better shot.
(05-22-2011 04:40 PM)RobertN Wrote: Why would anyone of them want to run against Obama in 2012? THey know they can't win. Many are waiting until 2016 so they don't have to go through the pressure cooker and ruin their chances in 2016 when they have a better shot.
Please provide one shred of evidence to back this up as well.
(05-22-2011 04:40 PM)RobertN Wrote: Why would anyone of them want to run against Obama in 2012? THey know they can't win. Many are waiting until 2016 so they don't have to go through the pressure cooker and ruin their chances in 2016 when they have a better shot.
Please provide one shred of evidence to back this up as well.
All one hads to do is look at who is running and who isn't to know that the more qualified candidates arn't running/ It should be pretty obvious to anyone but morons.
(05-22-2011 04:40 PM)RobertN Wrote: Why would anyone of them want to run against Obama in 2012? THey know they can't win. Many are waiting until 2016 so they don't have to go through the pressure cooker and ruin their chances in 2016 when they have a better shot.
Please provide one shred of evidence to back this up as well.
All one hads to do is look at who is running and who isn't to know that the more qualified candidates arn't running/ It should be pretty obvious to anyone but morons.
(05-22-2011 04:40 PM)RobertN Wrote: Why would anyone of them want to run against Obama in 2012? THey know they can't win. Many are waiting until 2016 so they don't have to go through the pressure cooker and ruin their chances in 2016 when they have a better shot.
Please provide one shred of evidence to back this up as well.
All one hads to do is look at who is running and who isn't to know that the more qualified candidates arn't running/ It should be pretty obvious to anyone but morons.
NAILED IT
I'll nail it.
If Romney, Paul, Pawlenty, Newt, Cain weren't running and Bush, Sarah, Michele, Trump and Huck were, you would say the exact same thing.
(05-22-2011 04:40 PM)RobertN Wrote: Why would anyone of them want to run against Obama in 2012? THey know they can't win. Many are waiting until 2016 so they don't have to go through the pressure cooker and ruin their chances in 2016 when they have a better shot.
In 1991, many of the "top-tier" Democrats (Mario Cuomo, Al Gore, Bill Bradley, Dick Gephardt, Sam Nunn, Jay Rockefeller, etc.) decided not to run because Bush's poll-#s were very high after the Gulf War, and many "experts" thought he could not possibly be beaten for re-election.
Things that seem "inevitable" 18 months out from Election Day sometime turn out to have been very much "evitable", after all, once all the votes have been counted.
