So, who will the Repubs nominate?

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  1. Natty Bumpo

    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    The wounded RINO's troubled waters over a bridge will continue to throw a damper on his fancy footwork for quite some time, and Jebby would have a better chance if his name were Richard Milhaus Baumfugger.

    As ghoulishly delightful as the prospect of a GOP nomination process of the living dead featuring Santorum, Cain, Bochmann, Huckabee, Newtie and whatever other blowfish might wash up on the GOP shore, the possibility of Carnival 'Shut 'er down!' Cruz battling Paul "Now that I joined 'AynrandAnonymous', I might even be able to carry my hometown" Ryan also promises heaps o' mirth! And if 'Piyush of the Bayou' Jindahl could only stop looking as if he were patiently training a recalcitrant parrot with a hair-trigger temper every time he faced a camera, he could add to the merriment.

    Who knows? There may be some sleeper out there, but every time you can get a hardcore Obama-hater's attention and ask about a GOP nominee for 2016, he'll shriek something along the line of, "Hillary's slaughter of innocents makes Herod look like T. Berry Brazelton!"

    Then, there are those that assess the possibilities, and consider a "Recycle the Willard" fallback. After all, they reason, he won in a "LANDSLIDE!" last time, remember?

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    Casper Banned at Members Request Past Donor

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    It will have to be someone that is a mainstream moderate Republican, Christie would be my bet. That is they want to stand a chance to win, a Tea Party guy such as Cruz would ensure another Dem in the Whitehouse.
     
  3. Natty Bumpo

    Natty Bumpo Well-Known Member

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    Turdblossom and the Establishmentistas have been pommelling the TPs as of late, but Repub Guvs' shunning the Big Boy at the national conference does not bode well for him.

    It was not the coming out party he had planned.

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    Moi621 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The Libertarian wing just may be the compromise of the GOP.
    Sort of everyone's second choice or acceptable choice.

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    What could be more Republican ? Almost.
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    Good point. A goodly number of us Republicans have a few libertarian tendencies. The GOP has several good candidates capable of beating anyone the dims run.
     
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    toddwv Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You wouldn't know it by your politicians. I think a lot of Republicans like to call themselves libertarians just like they refer to themselves as "Christians" but love to leave the Christ part out of their beliefs.
     
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    So, tell me something I don't already know! None of us are perfect, but unlike the liberal opposition, we are willing to admit it !:roll:
     
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    I've listened to some CPAC segments, someone forgot to tell them about the non-perfection thing...
     
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    I fully expect the Republican primary to be another neo-con train wreck. It'll likely be little more than a bunch of bankster backed simpletons competing to see who can impress AIPAC more with overly outlandish statements with no roots in reality.
    My guess is the GOP is finished winning the Presidency. It certainly won't be to advance the so called cause of American conservatism which is dead and defeated.
     
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    DUH! You should expect that in that kind of forum!

    There's a good number of qualified candidates there! I can see a Perry/Paul ticket or vise versa. Huckabee/Jindal? I know Bush is not there as far as I know, but what about Bush/Perry?

    There are good combinations there, and they would all be vastly more presidential, more competent, and better for our country than the scummy administration we have now!
     
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    A stuttering idiot, a Fox News guitar player, and a continuation of the Bush dynasty.
    Sounds like a winner.
     
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    You'll definitely need to pair an establishment candidate with a tea partier, but that isn't going to sit well with either wing.
     
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    Ds are scared out of their minds. Here we see them worrying and stewing about who the Rs will nominate and so far, nobody has even declared they're running.

    Worried much?

    You should be.
     
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    And they are all head and shoulders above and far more competent than your boy Obama! Doesn't speak to well for your smarts in choosing!
     
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    Perhaps a Bush/Paul? I was actually thinking the same thing you suggested.

    I believe Paul is more versatile and flexible than his daddy was, or Cruz would be. We shall see.
     
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    That might work. It would certainly be a tough ticket for Hillary to defeat.
     
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    Just because someone thinks your pathetic candidates are losers doesn't mean Obama is "their boy."
    I also wouldn't consider them better than anyone, and none of them will win because they're all horrible. More over, what you think is better is completely irrelevant. We have something called elections and neither the stuttering idiot, nor the Fox News guitar player, nor ANYONE named Bush can win one. If you want another McRomney result, go ahead, nominate one and watch what happens.

    You thought Obama was bad enough to put a creature like Romney up as the Republican nominee and it didn't work out so well for you. To assume the Republicans are going to automatically take the White House because of Obama is delusional at best. Nominate another neo-con hack and you lose. That's the game. Deal with it.
     
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    A Huckabee/Jindal will not win the Money Primary, the most important one; for all their noise, the 'libertarian' billionaires hate Huckabee, which was why they tried to draft a compliant butt sucker like Christie for a 2012 run, which he eventually bowed out of, but not before angering many of the Players in his own Party. Huckabee opposes corporate welfare, a hug no no for both the GOP leadership and their money bags. These people are all for 'Libertarianism for Everybody Else', but are very much opposed to it for themselves.

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    Bush/Paul is a guaranteed loser; if either of them are on a ticket it will be a sure sign the GOP doesn't want the White House.
     
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    That's all most of them know, 'Hammer Obama No Matter What!', no matter the issue or what's happening in the real world; it's what their Hive tells them to do, and they don't bother with thinking about it.
     
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    Obama was reelected because he lied about Benghazi and Obamacare, and the MSM covered for him! If he had been honest, Romney would have beat him like a drum even though Romney ran a weak campaign.

    I am thankful you are far from being as smart as you think you are, but perhaps time will help you learn a bit.:cool:

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    I'm glad I don't have to believe anything you say to get smarter! :roflol:
     
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    The left lies, cheats, and steals. We've known this for a century. Knowing it hasn't helped. I don't know what your point is or why that's even relevant. All I see here is blaming and excuses. The MSN is ideologically driven towards leftwing revolution. Your beloved Constitution affords them that right and opportunity. Deal with it.

    Yeah, I'm sure you're a real genius. Go ahead and nominate Huckabee and lose again in all your profound wisdom. If that is you in your avatar, I regret to inform you that you represent the most politically inept generation in world history, and you've completely ruined the United States of America.

    The truth is... YOU'RE not as smart as YOU think YOU are. Not to worry, though, because Bill O'Reilly is looking out for you.
     
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    Nonsense; Romney was even the last choice of his own Party. All the Tea Party and libertoon runners hosed themselves in one of the most ridiculously loony primaries in American history. And, all those 'grass roots Tea Party' types dutifully ended up trooping obediently to the polls and voting for a globalist plutocrat who doesn't even keep his money in the U.S., and didn't even remember it was his own Party that passed the bill that indexed the personal deduction to inflation back in the 1990's and that accounts for many people dropping off the tax rolls. Can't get any more clueless, except for Tea Party muppets of course.

    what you believe or don't believe makes no difference; you will vote for anything the GOP feels like putting in front of you, regardless of who it is.
     
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    Not from what I can tell. It's politics as usual at CPAC and there's no indication that any nominee that comes out of the GOP's purity blender won't leave a trail of far right-wing sound bites that will haunt him straight through the election season.

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    Ah yes, stay classy GOPer.
     
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    Cruz is an unelectable ass and Paul is a pandering political pariah who has no chance to make it past establishment Republicans.

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    And toss in a couple racially charged words to boot and then complain if they're called racists.
     
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    I guess if we Conservatives need to be informed about our possible candidates, we just need to ask liberals! The problem is they spews lies and unsubstantiated "facts!" They go by emotion and wishful thinking.

    When I criticize their candidates, I go by public information and common-sense deduction. I also use something that is alien to liberals, honesty! :cool:
     

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