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I've already got my swagger down and we'll be havin' honkey tonk BBQ's at the White House in no time.
Excellent point. Someone who is popular in Florida or Ohio will undoubtedly get extra consideration.
I've already got my swagger down and we'll be havin' honkey tonk BBQ's at the White House in no time.
I think Rubio's the obvious choice, assuming he'd want to run. Rising star, a swing state Senator, and he courts a demographic Republicans have difficulty with right now.
Repugs have difficulties with Cubans? Repugs are the ones blocking any rapprochement with Cuba. Repugs own the Cuban vote.
I forgot about Rubio. sucking Goodhair could actually win with him as a running mate.
Not so sure I want to go from ty president who can't get anything passed to ty president who can get everything passed though.
It's hard to tell when you're actually serious. You know what I meant.
Never underestimate the ability of the party out of the White House to fail to beat a sitting president by nominating extremely weak candidates.
See: McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis (I know Bush 1 was the VP, but in spirit this was "4 more years", Dole and Kerry.
I mean, crap, that is a sorry lot is it not?
If the Republicans nominate ANY of the current candidates*, Obama will win.
* I actually like Ron Paul, but the climate will have to deteriorate further than I can imagine it will for the general public to treat him as anything more than a sideshow.
Didn't read the link but I believe Jefferson and Madison were the first president and VP from the same state.
Sometimes that lousy candidate can still win though, like 1980.
Rubio is just a Quayle in hispanic skin.
I tell you what though... if Perry does announce his candidacy, I'm thinking Christie might follow...
I think the only reason Christie is not going to it right now is that he's not confident any of the current GOP candidates can beat Obama, so he can bid his time as NJ governor until Barry finishes self-destructing and he can then raise as the consensus GOP candidate in 2016. But if a legitimate candidate like Perry shows up, and potentially put that long term strategy in jeopardy, I'm not sure he won't give it a shot.
What I do know is that it's very unlikely he would take a VP spot.
It's a fair point, but how many of those candidates were running when unemployment was north of 9%?
Christie blew his chances a few weeks ago when he defended his appointing of a Muslim judge and defended his right to do so and admitted people were being held without reason. He can't back out of that.
I wouldn't discount him. Especially since it's very likely he won't get another term in NJ.
The Tea Party won't accept Christie and his Muslim sympathy and his supporting the fact that citizens rights were violated. Props for Christie for standing his ground though but his presidential hopes under the current republican stances are gone.
Perry is playing the Palin game and pulling out his true conservative cards. Too bad he is not playing with a full deck though.
Can’t you just let us get on down the road?
I'm not a Perry supporter but I think you guys are seriously underestimating him. He will be a formidable challenger for the nomination, and he wouldn't have jumped in if he didn't have substantial financial backing already lined up.
Rick is going to embarrass the state of Texas much worse than George W., and that's saying something.
Obama has lowered the bar even further.
Like DoK said, the racist bible thumpers hate Obama so much that they will fully get out to vote for whoever they nominate. Question is how many will get out to vote against another Texan in the WH?
Yes, Obama has lowered the bar on presidents from Texas.
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