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Elections 2012 & 2016

Who is most likely to run in 2012 or 2016

  • Jeb Bush

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Bobby Jindal

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Hillary Clinton

    Votes: 6 33.3%
  • David Petraeus

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mitt Romney

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • None of the above

    Votes: 7 38.9%

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
All the racists should be sent to an internment camp in Antarctica - they would love all the whiteness there..I'd love to be free from their ignorance and fear.
 
All the racists should be sent to an internment camp in Antarctica - they would love all the whiteness there..I'd love to be free from their ignorance and fear.

Did you say racists or Republicans?
 
Jim Webb in 2012 because Obama is the sitting president. Obama will continue to be historic by becoming the first incumbent president denied his own party's nomination.
 
All the racists should be sent to an internment camp in Antarctica - they would love all the whiteness there..I'd love to be free from their ignorance and fear.

Did you say racists or Republicans?

These posts were made before Obama was even elected...I find it amusing and sad that the racist comments, particularly against republicans, started so friggen soon.
 
Jim Webb in 2012 because Obama is the sitting president. Obama will continue to be historic by becoming the first incumbent president denied his own party's nomination.

You have no grasp of history if you think no president has ever been denied his own party's nomination.
 
Obama will be reelected handily in 2012. Taking all bets!

The splitting of the Republican party will be a factor, but the biggest factors will be an improved economy, health care reform, and the troops being withdrawn from Iraq.
 
mccain? LMAO!

What's wrong with McCain? Yeah, he'll be even older. But if he picked a highly experienced very qualified vice presidential candidate and kept detailed information it wouldn't be such a bad deal. You get McCain's experience at the risk of his health. When his health goes down you have a fall guy with almost as much experience who's got all the information of what's going on.

I just don't know if McCain wants to run again, especially in 2012. I see it as an easy win for Obama if he manages to do anything at all, like Bush in 2004. (I also think that's why you never saw Hillary go in on the 2004 election, she was betting she couldn't beat Bush.) And if you put McCain in 2016, he's upto what, 90? You might be hitting a record there. :) But I could see him running in 2012 as "the fall guy" if it's obvious the republicans cannot oust Obama. Palin would also be good in 2012, it would keep her in the media and she's certainly not too young for a 2016 run. Maybe she'll be read one of those "How to be a politician for dummies" books first.
 
What's wrong with McCain? Yeah, he'll be even older. But if he picked a highly experienced very qualified vice presidential candidate and kept detailed information it wouldn't be such a bad deal. You get McCain's experience at the risk of his health. When his health goes down you have a fall guy with almost as much experience who's got all the information of what's going on.

I just don't know if McCain wants to run again, especially in 2012. I see it as an easy win for Obama if he manages to do anything at all, like Bush in 2004. (I also think that's why you never saw Hillary go in on the 2004 election, she was betting she couldn't beat Bush.) And if you put McCain in 2016, he's upto what, 90? You might be hitting a record there. :) But I could see him running in 2012 as "the fall guy" if it's obvious the republicans cannot oust Obama. Palin would also be good in 2012, it would keep her in the media and she's certainly not too young for a 2016 run. Maybe she'll be read one of those "How to be a politician for dummies" books first.
WAY too old, and losers don't typically rise from the ashes. mccain's own party doesn't like him, and i'm pretty sure he personally would not want to run.

i think the republicans will mount a serious challenge in 2012.......maybe pawlenty? no way they would ever run palin, she's a train wreck and i think they know that.
 
WAY too old, and losers don't typically rise from the ashes. mccain's own party doesn't like him, and i'm pretty sure he personally would not want to run.

i think the republicans will mount a serious challenge in 2012.......maybe pawlenty? no way they would ever run palin, she's a train wreck and i think they know that.


Republicans nominate their losers :cool:
In keeping with this tradition, I predict they will nominate Romney. It's 'his turn'. Republicans tend to be very organized and predictable in their nominations.

ps - ITA, McCain will be waaaayyyy to old.
 
Republicans nominate their losers :cool:
In keeping with this tradition, I predict they will nominate Romney. It's 'his turn'. Republicans tend to be very organized and predictable in their nominations.

ps - ITA, McCain will be waaaayyyy to old.
maybe. we'll see who gets rush's attention. ;-)
 
no way they would ever run palin, she's a train wreck and i think they know that.

Palin has great press, has her recently best seller book out, will no doubt make frequent appearances on Fox news. She could be getting groomed for the position. Her daughters a few years older so they won't be an issue anymore.
 
Palin has great press, has her recently best seller book out, will no doubt make frequent appearances on Fox news. She could be getting groomed for the position. Her daughters a few years older so they won't be an issue anymore.
i guess we'll see. i think she has her following, but will never attract the moderates that republicans need to win. as long as she keeps doing stupid things like hammering levi johnston, no way is she an asset.
 
What's wrong with McCain? Yeah, he'll be even older. But if he picked a highly experienced very qualified vice presidential candidate and kept detailed information it wouldn't be such a bad deal. You get McCain's experience at the risk of his health. When his health goes down you have a fall guy with almost as much experience who's got all the information of what's going on.

I just don't know if McCain wants to run again, especially in 2012. I see it as an easy win for Obama if he manages to do anything at all, like Bush in 2004. (I also think that's why you never saw Hillary go in on the 2004 election, she was betting she couldn't beat Bush.) And if you put McCain in 2016, he's upto what, 90? You might be hitting a record there. :) But I could see him running in 2012 as "the fall guy" if it's obvious the republicans cannot oust Obama. Palin would also be good in 2012, it would keep her in the media and she's certainly not too young for a 2016 run. Maybe she'll be read one of those "How to be a politician for dummies" books first.

McCain was "the fall guy" in 2008. The Republicans' worst case scenario for 2008 was to win. McCain was the nominee to make sure that this worst case scenario didn't happen. And just to make sure of this, Sarah Palin was chosen as VP. I don't know where this talk of McCain in 2012 is coming from. Surely all would agree this is even more off the edge than me thinking that Jim Webb will be the Democrat nominee in 2012!
 
If I recall correctly McCain said early in the primaries that this was the last time he was running for President regardless of the out come. So sorry, no McCain in 2012.
 
If I recall correctly McCain said early in the primaries that this was the last time he was running for President regardless of the out come. So sorry, no McCain in 2012.

Yeah, that and the fact that he is unelectable.
 
Sarah Palin will be the choice of the hard right. That's who they all like. The hard right will not accept McCain or Romney or Gingrich.

(Newt has a new book out this week about George Washington.)

The republicans could really be split next vote.
 
Sarah Palin will be the choice of the hard right. That's who they all like. The hard right will not accept McCain or Romney or Gingrich.

(Newt has a new book out this week about George Washington.)

The republicans could really be split next vote.
good. ;-)
 
The republicans could really be split next vote.

That is what I think will be the most interesting aspect of the 2010 election.
 
I wonder if you can name one? There actually is one. Hint: it was before primaries existed. Do you know when primaries started?

So you said none, then you said there was one. And now you're changing the goal post by bringing up primaries. Try to be consistant, my friend
 
So you said none, then you said there was one. And now you're changing the goal post by bringing up primaries. Try to be consistant, my friend

And you didn't say anything other than I'm ignorant when it comes to history. Which inadvertently jogged my memory and I remembered an incumbent that was denied the nomination. I can't really say that you corrected me since you offered nothing but an ad hominen attack and I still don't know whether you know who this president was.

I brought up the primaries question just as an aside, not as an attempt to be consistent because "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was a contemporary of that incumbent president that was denied nomination for re-election, hint hint)
 
How did he do in the 2008 election? Was that opinion, or fact?

Just because he wasn't elected in 2008 does not mean that he is unelectable. Many did not vote for him because they were pissed off at republicans. Not because they didn't like McCain. They just disliked his party.
 
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