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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2016: you know if it is Clinton vs Christie
that's gonna be one very nasty campaign!
warrior1
(12,325 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)The GOP doesn't nominate its most conservative candidates. Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole, Papa Bush -- all of them were less conservative than most of their primary opponents. And every time they loose, the Freep wing pisses and moans and vows that that's the last time they nominate a RINO. And fours years later, it happens again. That's why Christie's a likely pick.
TlalocW
(15,392 posts)Unless the GOP is able to shed the tea-partiers and the religious nutjobs that make up their base, he has a slim chance of getting the nomination because he palled around with Obama (pisses off the tea-partiers), and he's seen as giving up the fight against gay marriage by the religious nutjobs. If he enters the primaries, he's going to be every other candidate's whipping boy.
TlalocW
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)...rMoney then he'll have to state some facts
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)no matter who is in it.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)for most of that party!
KoKo
(84,711 posts)So anything could happen. But, we might be ready for a change from the Ted Cruz/Christie and others who would just be more of the same of what the people of this country have been through for three decades.
Just my opinion and observation as long time Dem Voter.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)I agree with you. Just saying, "We're better than that crazy guy over there." won't work if the landscape changes. And although I would hate to see democrats facing a Huntsman I sure do wish democrats would quit sitting on their hands saying "We're better than that crazy guy over there." Democrats will actually have to work on legislation such as wages, unions, education, SS.
RC
(25,592 posts)People are sick and tired of More Of The Same. And that is what she represents.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Christie because he's not rabid enough.
Clinton because I think she's going to end up not running.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)It is a political eternity. Regardless my local mayoral race is far more important to me than the Presidency. I mean the election is on the 19th of this month, and I am betting on a run off. So I know where I will be that night.
Then there are all these races, including boards, city councils, judgeships, legislature, state senate, house and senate in 2014. They matter far more than a distant presidential race and perception control
Sorry to throw water into this.