Posted on 02/18/2012 7:14:08 PM PST by 11th_VA
Unfortunately, Kasich would probably throw Ohio to Obama. His approval rating has been 35-40% for the better part of a year.
Thanks for the information. Having been born a year later, no wonder I don’t remember it!
There needs to be both an ideological and geographical “meshing” IMO. What would Christie add? NJ, NY or CT? Nope.
Now McDonnell and Paul Ryan or McDonnell and Susanna Martinez? Now you're cooking with gas.
“Now McDonnell and Paul Ryan or McDonnell and Susanna Martinez? Now you’re cooking with gas.”
Good ideas on paper, but you’re missing a few points. Problem is that Paul Ryan isn’t interested, I think he may want to be Speaker of the House. Also, his ideas were successfully smeared, which was completely unfair but a reality. Susana Martinez has immense potential, but it’s too soon to reach any conclusion one way or ther other. The same would apply to Marco Rubio. Let’s give them time to establish records.
Bob McDonnell is a solid choice, his support of Mittens being his only liability. Sucessful conservative Governor of a swing state who has taken on the opposing party and remained popular. He would pretty much take Virginia off the table for Obama.
Chris Christie is a mixed bag. He has some celebrity going for him and he has some positive accomplishments as Governor. He’s still new at this job and he has liabilities (could be better on political correctness like border security and the Islamic threat). There are also questions about his health. He would put New Jersey on the table, but probably couldn’t deliver it. Perhaps now is not the right time for him.
The Establishment types seem to want Jeb Bush to be the nominee. I say no, no, no, no, a thousand times no! We were never meant to have royal families in the U.S. The last two President Bushs left office unpopular and are remembered as dissapointments. Is there any reason to believe that Jeb Bush would be any different?
Right now it’s a game of wait and see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDcRCJGV3Lk
ALL the establishment Republicans are “just nuts”.
McDonnell also supports Lt. Governor Bill Bolling over Attorney General Ken Cucinelli for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in 2013. Bolling is Romney’s state chairman and apparently a bland and boring and uncreative establishment Republican. Cuccinelli may well be the single best Republican high office holder anywhere in America. McDonnell should know better.
Perhaps Ken Cucinelli could run against Mark Warner.
I want moon man Newt and Bible thumper Rick
I’ve never heard a Catholic being referred to as a Bible thumper before.
So enlighten us to who you are supporting. I’m sure we could come up with some childish names to call them.
It’s not McDonnell, it’s McConnell. McDonell was that woman who ran for Biden’s Senate Seat in Delaware. No, that’s not even right. She was McDonald, but that’s what I thought the title was saying.
Kudlow is such an obnoxious douchebag...
< Chris Christie jpg > < Fatty Arbuckle jpg >
Bob McDonnell = Governor of Virginia.
Christine O’Donnell = Former Delaware US Senate candidate.
Mitch McConnell = United States Senator from Kentucky and the Minority Leader.
I thought Mitch was my man from INDIANA whom the insiders dream of at a deadlocked convention.
Mitch Daniels is the governor of Indiana.
LOL !
A few, mostly Western states adopted primary elections in the late 19th century and during the Progressive Era, but the catalyst for their widespread adoption came during the election of 1968. The Vietnam War energized a large number of supporters of anti-war Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, but they had no say in the matter.Our system today is so totally screwed with these guys crawling through cornfields in Iowa, snow storms in New Hampshire, and kissing hogs in South Carolina while spending million and having to raise millions of dollars and in the process while savaging friends and naturaly allies over trivial dumb stuff just to try to pull in some few new voters. (Look at the total hatred some here on FreeRepublic have for Newt, Mitt, or Rick to see how destructive the primary system has become.)
Vice President Hubert Humphrey—associated with the unpopular administration of Lyndon B. Johnson—did not compete in a single primary, yet controlled enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination. This proved one of several factors behind rioting which broke out at the convention in Chicago.
Media images of the event—angry mobs facing down police—damaged the image of the Democratic Party, which appointed a commission headed by George McGovern to select a new, less controversial method of choosing nominees. The McGovern–Fraser Commission settled on the primary election, adopted by the Democratic National Committee in 1968. The Republicans adopted the primary as their preferred method in 1972.Henceforth, candidates would be given convention delegates based on their performance in primaries, and these delegates were bound to vote for their candidate.
As a result, the major party presidential nominating convention has lost almost all of its old drama. The last attempt to release delegates from their candidates came in 1980, when Senator Ted Kennedy sought the votes of delegates held by incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter. The last major party convention whose outcome was in doubt was the 1976 Republican National Convention, when former California Governor Ronald Reagan nearly won the nomination away from the incumbent, Gerald Ford.
The rise in political consultants also led to a decrease in the role of political parties at conventions. Before the introduction of direct presidential primaries, and the media pressure to put the ‘exciting’ parts of the convention in prime time, political parties used to use their conventions to develop the platform and the tone for the general election.[10] Because of long primary season and the media scrutiny of the candidates the need for the candidates to hire Political consultant has grown. These consultants, not the party leaders, now determine who the convention speakers will be, the party platform and the tone of the general election.[11]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_nominating_convention
The only people that benefit are the professional political consultants in Washington who get the millions from both sides and have all the loyalty of a hungry crocodile. And then there are MSM who have endless political stories hand feed them by cynical political consultants for four years, always reported from the left side of the spectrum.
The system sucks. Screw primaries. They are a distortion. They are a net negative for national office.
let us know when the battle for the Bay State begins. Or is that the battle for the Bay Commonwealth?
I been hangin’ in Harvard, MA lately, near Ayer.
Thanks for the informative quote.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.