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Obama 2016? (What if 2012 Isn’t Obama’s Last Campaign?)
National Review ^ | 8-15-2012 | Jim Geraghty _ Commentary

Posted on 08/15/2012 12:02:43 PM PDT by smoothsailing

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To: 5thGenTexan

We really don’t need the current income tax replaced by another income tax.


41 posted on 08/15/2012 1:24:00 PM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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To: beenaround

“I don’t think I have ever seen so many conspiracy believers on a forum which purports to have a preponderance of reasonable intelligent thinking people as members. It’s discouraging and a bit unsettling. “

You are oh so right, and they are the same bunch who want to throw California under the bus! We wouldn’t have a country to save today if these were the kind of people on whom Washington had to rely in the War for Independence. And they don’t see that they are indeed a mirror image of those whom they profess to detest on the Left! But then again, we are still free enough that they can babble on about the Black helicopters and all that!


42 posted on 08/15/2012 1:24:09 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: 5thGenTexan
1. Obama, always trim and fit, would be only 55 on Election Day 2016.

Well, it's just a matter of time before all the bong resin floating around his bloodstream does some damage. With any luck, it will incapacitate him from any future political aspirations, with the possibility of Kenyan Dog Catcher not being ruled out.

43 posted on 08/15/2012 1:24:49 PM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: SnakeDoctor

I do believe the Dems have an incredibly weak bench right now.
All their “stars” except Baraq are ancient. Hillary, Biden, Bwarney Fwank, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Schumer, etc.

The younger ones they do have are toxic like Debbie Washerwoman Schmultz, John Edwards, and Tony Weiner.


44 posted on 08/15/2012 1:27:50 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: 5thGenTexan

I know... it was just a dream.


45 posted on 08/15/2012 1:34:16 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Abathar
No way they will back him if he loses, I just don’t think there is that much true love of him from the people who have boots on the ground.

One thing that is notable about the Obama administration is that he, himself, has done virtually nothing for his party. He raises funds...but only for himself.

He couldn't be bothered to campaign for the Democrats in Congress in 2010. In the few cases where he made an effort, they were ineffective.

If Obama loses in a squeaker in 2012 and wishes to run again in 2016, he will have to ingratiate himself with his party -- as Nixon did among Republicans in 1965-68. Criss-crossing the country, raising funds for the party and not himself, selflessly helping Congressional candidates and State committees, etc.

And Obama is simply too lazy and self-absorbed to do that.

He loses in 2012...and he's gone. Except in the media's wet dreams...and his own mind.

46 posted on 08/15/2012 1:37:09 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Obama 2016? (What if 2012 Isn’t Obama’s Last Campaign?)

Have you wondered why the military is preparing for Civil Insurrection in 2016? It's not a coincidence. 0bama is planning on stealing this election, and in 2016 he has no intention of leaving office. He regards himself as dictator for life and he is getting the military ready to keep him in power.

47 posted on 08/15/2012 1:38:35 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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To: Lou L
Obama, always trim and fit, would be only 55 on Election Day 2016.

Jimmah Carter was only 56 when he left office, and in pretty good health by all accounts.


48 posted on 08/15/2012 1:39:52 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: okie01

When he leaves office he has his eye on that cushy gig Jesse Jackson has had for four decades.


49 posted on 08/15/2012 1:42:10 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: smoothsailing

If Obama loses in a close race, and the Dems hold the Senate, I think you’ll see him as the party’s nominee in 2016. If he loses big, and the Republicans increase their majority in the House and take the Senate, then things will get interesting for the Dems in 2016. Obama’s enormous ego will cause him to seek the nomination, but the party will blame him for the 2012 disaster and seek another candidate. Hillary and Biden will be too old. (Hillary looks horrible now - just imagine what she’ll look like in 4 years!) As someone else pointed out, the Democrats have a weak bench. They’ll have to manufacture a new “rising star” in the party.


50 posted on 08/15/2012 1:42:21 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Jimmah Carter was only 56 when he left office, and in pretty good health by all accounts.

Aside from his chronic case of dumbass fever, of course.

51 posted on 08/15/2012 1:43:30 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Jonty30; All

Or even scarier- pull a Taft and convince the next Dem president to name him to SCOTUS


52 posted on 08/15/2012 1:45:01 PM PDT by wrhssaxensemble (We need an electable conservative in 2012!)
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To: smoothsailing
Obama--if he loses--will NOT get another chance in 2016. The Democratic National Committee will finally realize they need a candidate that isn't so far Left, and may consider someone like Tim Kaine of Virginia or Evan Bayh of Indiana.
53 posted on 08/15/2012 1:45:40 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: smoothsailing
Even more of an incentive to destroy Obama's personal narrative where he is most vulnerable. And if Romney is successful in turning the country around economically, would the majority of people want to reelect Obama?

Obama has many years to be a divisive force in this country. His activism will make Carter and Clinton look like virtual hermits. He will be just as dangerous out of office. He will be the first community organizer former President. He will do his best to undermine whoever occupies the WH.

54 posted on 08/15/2012 2:01:04 PM PDT by kabar
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To: smoothsailing
Obama, it is certainly true, will not go quietly into the sunset, if allowed to remain on the loose.

... if allowed to remain on the loose. There is more than enough in Obama's record to justify marching him immediately from the inaugural platform, where he will have sullenly watched Romney's swearing in, to the nearest federal holding pen, where he can await trial for the numerous criminalities of his flagitious regime. Romney should devote the full force of his Justice Department to pauperizing Obama with the cost of defending his indefensible regime and see to it that he spends all the rest of his adult life behind bars in federal prison.

If he ever is released, he should be released directly to Mexican authorities for prosecution for his complicity in the deaths of countless Mexican citizens at the hands of Obama-armed drug cartel members as a result of the Fast and Furious scam. Maybe he and Holder can be cell mates.

55 posted on 08/15/2012 2:02:59 PM PDT by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
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To: kabar

“My task—the Party’s task—was to organize defeat”

Yevgrav Zhivago


56 posted on 08/15/2012 2:10:36 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Spartan79; FrankR
Maybe he and Holder can be cell mates.


57 posted on 08/15/2012 2:33:44 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing
...do you envision President Obama accepting defeat gracefully?

Nope. He will out-Gore Gore.

58 posted on 08/15/2012 2:38:53 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: smoothsailing

Perfect pic! I’m printing a copy and hanging it on the wall behind my desk for motivation over the next three months.


59 posted on 08/15/2012 3:21:12 PM PDT by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
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To: smoothsailing
NOT A CHANCE.

And who ARE these spineless, cowering pantywetters who even whip this ridicules crap UP in their cowardly lil own-shadow-scared midget-minds? I mean SERIOUSlY, how DO these perpetual nail-biting boo!--you-crapped-your-pants-again babies get through a single dark nightlight-less NIGHT?

HEY you sniveling little tinkle-trunks worry-wimps:

Get the HELL out from under that freaking baby crib, wipe that dripping wimper-nose snot, pull up your Pull-ups, and get that damn THUMB out of your mouth. Sheesh.

Boo! Obama's gonna get you!

60 posted on 08/15/2012 4:02:34 PM PDT by Miss Behave (All ways, always.)
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