Posted on 01/23/2014 3:24:59 PM PST by Kaslin
read post 19.
open primaries or closed primaries, it does not matter.
We will pick the guy who is next.
We do this because the guy who is next has been vetted the time before, campaigned in front of a lot of people and is a proven campaigner, has seen and understands how a national campaign works and has made a lot of donors believers in him.
We will pick from Ryan, Romney, Santorum or Bush.
Lucky us...
2016 primaries are still very important to determine who is next in 2020 or 2024.
But actually the nominee for 2016 was probably determined in 2012.
No thank you to the list. How about someone with spine and guts and not a RINO suck up?
Let me explain this one more time.
The GOP does not nominated some rookie first timer to be president.
The choice will be from Romney, Ryan, Bush or Santorum because they are not rookies, they have been vetted and are experienced politicians on a national scale.
If you want someone to be president, they must first run for president and likely lose as a rookie but show enough promise in their first run to be considered an experienced, vetted, national politician in their second run.
So whoever you want, they need to run in 2016 to become viable in 2020.
Rookies are losers.
The schmucks you listed are proven LOSERS, wimps, gutless, RINOs; case closed. Listen to Rush and Levin and they will tell you the same thing. The base has rejected these spineless, gutless losers as well. Because of the destruction of our Constitution and our country, what happened in the past won’t be tolerated by the base. What was has proven useless; look around and smell the DC inside-the-beltway hypocrites.
I'm gonna have to agree with you there. Apart from exceptional figures (i.e. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force during WWII), the vast majority of GOP nominees have been the next guy in line (even GWB, who was the second coming of Bush I). I think Eisenhower got the slot because of the prestige of his job and the allied victory in Europe. If MacArthur had actively run in 1948, he could have secured the GOP nomination, and won the presidency from Truman, and Eisenhower's name might never have been associated with the 1950's.
If you want your guy to win, he/she will have to do it like Reagan who ran in 76, lost and run again in 80 and win.
Run once, lose, learn from the loss, improve, build a base, then run the second time and win.
The country, our freedom, our Constitution, our security will not survive your scenario.
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