2012 Presidential Election

11 thoughts on “2012 Presidential Election”

1. you write it in Portuguese, then use an Internet translator to take it into German, and then back into English.

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   1. It’s weird that you can’t laugh on the internet without saying “ha ha” (and then you feel like Nelson Muntz) or “LOL” (and then you look like a moron).  

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      1. Just kidding.

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2. as the GOP splinters still further into factions of crazy, xenophobic racists, neo-con/military-industrialists, holier-than-thous (who think that who-marries-whom is the number one issue in the universe), and the anti-government/anti-regulation crowd (who think that the answer to everything–even the excess brought about by too loose regulations–is less regulation), I hope daily that people like Saltsman keep flapping their gums.  If so, the GOP slogan for 2012 should be:

   Vote Republican 2012:Plummeting toward Irrelevancy  

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3. Gov. Charlie Crist
   
   Gov. Bobby Jindal (who will probably wait)
   
   Gov. John Huntsman
   
   Sen. John Thune
   
   Former Gov. Mitt Romney
   
   Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
   
   Gov. Tim Pawlenty
   
   Gov. Sarah Palin

   My bet for 2012: Romney gets the nod against Obama. Obama will have a new VP, and Romney will choose Eric Cantor, or a female house member (Cathy McMorris Rodgers, maybe) as his VP.  

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   1. But if the GOP concentrates even further as the party of the religious nutjobs, I can’t see Romney being more popular with them than he was the last time. I think the last three on your list are the best prospects, given where the Republicans are headed.

      And Crist, really? Didn’t he cancel the beard — er, I mean, the wedding, once he fell out of VP consideration? He’s got a future, but it isn’t at the top of the ticket.

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      1. And he managed to be even more tan than his incredibly tan wife.

         A few of the candidates cancel each other out. For example, I don’t think that both Pawlenty and Crist would run, since they’re viewed as the moderate governors of moderate states. Huntsman and Thune won’t both run (conservative photogenic westerners), and Huntsman might not run at all because of Romney (UT connections).

         I think that’s a serious list of candidates, but no more than 5 of them actually pull the trigger. We see a couple of out-there egotrip candidates too, like Duncan Hunter this year.  

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         1. to send an item from their registry? Do we get the gift back if the marriage doesn’t last out the year?

            Do you think the Crown Jewel will talk his way back into Thune’s campaign if that materializes? We’ll miss ya, Dick …

            Remembering the GOP Presidential Candidate Rule, that the party only nominates candidates who’ve run before and failed (the current president being the only non-incumbent exception going back 40 years), that only leaves Huckabee and Romney, and I think A-bob is right, Romney has hit his ceiling.  

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   2. Huckabee will as long as Palin doesn’t run. People forget Huckabee pulled those wins with almost no money or ID.

      This time he’ll be well know which will get him more money unlike Romney who will just go through the same thing like last time only with a few more states.

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      1. Huckabee will as long as Palin doesn’t run

         Methinks I found the flaw in your argument.

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         1. If only one ‘real’ conservative runs, and it is Huckabee, he’ll win. Jindal has to wait until later anyway if he really wants to win. He’ll get a landslide if he can just be patient

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