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Stephens is an ass.
This logic by the writer is lame. OBAMA DESERVES TO LOSE.
It’s January not July. I call articles like this premature ejurkulation. Defeatism is a sure sign of incompetence. President Perfect isn’t going to happen, but if we box in these squishy bastards we may well save the nation.
The alternative is a Communist Dictatorship. It’s time to quit whining and start pressing. (See my tagline.)
A lot of water is going to flow under the bridge between now and November. It’s why I don’t think Obama will finish his term, regardless of who the republican candidate is.
I think it is possible that this year’s presidential election will not be the main news of the year. It will be the “B” side.
What an airhead. Apparently this guy just knows better than all of the Tea Party folks who have changed the face of the electorate in 2010. So he trashes them as being more interested in entertainment than in changing DC.
Yet another frightened lib troll…
I’m sick of this fatalist attitude being perpetuated out there and even here. Any one of our candidates including Paul would be infinitely better than the fraud we have now. Period.
So just who is the mythical, magical savior of the GOP? It’s easy to criticize any field of candidates. There was a time when the WSJ was above this sort of dreck.
In 2008, the Dems had a minority candidate with no experience and nothing but “hope” and a woman who married her way into a political position, with no real accomplishments of her own.
The GOP does “deserve to lose”.
Except that America can not suffer four more years of Obama. The nation as whole does not deserve that.
(The people who vote for Obama deserve Obama...if only the disasterous effects of the Socialist moron could be delivered upon them selectively.)
I would rather have the unknown of a GOP winner, than the known and second term and unbridled Obama communism for all. Americans will be the biggest and regretful losers if Obama wins a second term.
Maybe, but nobody deserves four more years of bowing to the god of Affirmative Action while losing the country to Socialism.
I can’t stand this self-abuse from so-called Republicans. The field is what it is. Newt was Speaker of the House, Santorum a Senator, Romney a Governor - in terms of experience and ability to even run a national campaign, these are the people who are at the top.
Do people like Stephens think we are going to be blessed with some super-hero, who comes down from the sky as genius and natural orator, but has never been dirtied by actually being involved in politics?
Poorly written and nonsensical.
You post this - then essentially agree with it? The writer sounds like some 80’s gay queen looking down his nose at folks who don’t eat sprouts. What a boring, predictable, nose in the air load of yawn.
"Finally, there are the men not in the field: Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour.What a pathetic piece of "journalism" from a pathetic piece of a "journalist"…
This was the GOP A-Team, the guys who should have showed up to the first debate but didn't because running for president is hard and the spouses were reluctant.
Nothing commends them for it. If this election is as important as they all say it is, they had a duty to step up.
Abraham Lincoln did not shy from the contest of 1860 because of Mary Todd.
If Mr. Obama wins in November—or, rather, when he does—the failure will lie as heavily on their shoulders as it will with the nominee."
You'll have plenty to cry over upon Newt's landslide victory.
Cc: bstephens@wsj.com
The writer will wake up the day after the election, and he’ll have to write a column explaining how the American people were so wrong to fire Obama and elected the GOP candidate who “deserved to lose”.
The writer has no understanding about how angry the American people feel right now, and how that anger is just going to be increasing until the election. The writer needs to get out of his ivory tower and get out amongst the people, and I do mean the real people, not the crowd he hangs out with.
The writer is either completely ignorant about how much the American people are seeking to replace Obama, or he’s just making stupid statements in the hope of making things happen.
This whole “bad GOP field” assumption is like the “bush tax cuts didn’t work” assumptive question thrown at Mitt last night.
The fact is, the field was not that bad. Is not that bad. It’s also not that good, but there is not much of a bench from which to pull candidates. And the Dems had the same problem in 2008. Look at Obama’s congressional record in 2008 compared to Newt’s now. Which one has more accomplishment? Which one is more qualified?
The problem is that anyone that REALLY could do a bang up job as president is not stupid enough to run for the office. The quality of the congress is not what it was, and the governors have similar problems because so many of them, even the Republicans, have abandoned their conservative roots.
The pool is just low quality, and its gonna bite us. And only part of that “bite” is in who gets elected (as in 2008) but, more importantly, what those elected end up doing in office.
What’s bad about electing the fox to be the keeper of the hen house is what he does once elected. And Gignrich, the front runner, is the closest thing we have to a conservative, but he’s no conservative.
Fortunately, the whold bureaucracy is about to collapse of its own weight so it doesn’t matter all that much WHO is elected. The only ones that have a chance of coming out of this relatively unscathed is the preppers, not any voters.
It’s time to revisit Claire Wolfe.
No it doesn’t