Yeah that stupid “tradition” (that hasn’t benefited us since 1980) of giving it the runner up or other top contender from last time is sure to end. No one who ran in 2012 or 2008 is likely to succeed including fat *** Huckabee.
I was for Santorum, by default, but don’t want to see him run again. Half of FR would probably jump right on the Newt train, gag.
Any other retreads, there’s always Governor Hair (Perry), after his poor campaigning and implosion, I don’t think so.
There is Rand Paul, surrogate for Ron who competed the last 2 times. No one in the establishment would ever consider it Ron Paul’s “turn” though. Ha.
Fieldmarshaldj was constantly ringing the alarms about Romney in '08 and I told him he was wasting his time and preaching to the choir. Romney is a RINO from Mass. and there was no way freepers would rally around him. Then, to my shock and horror, freepers did exactly that after Fred Thompson dropped out, and somehow Romney was the "true conservative" left, even though Mitt "better for gay rights than Ted Kennedy" had traditionally had a career to the LEFT of both Huckabee and McCain before he reinvented himself as a conservative in 2008. No way was I supporting a guy in the primary who had become "conservative" a few months earlier. Unfortunately, most freepers did. Ironically, so did Rick Santorum (endorsed Romney over Huckabee and McCain), and I'd be willing to bet 90% of the freepers bashing him for doing so made the same decision in 2008. Sheer hypocrisy.
In 2012, I figured NO WAY would FR EVER rally around Newt. He was polling around 2% and had been the subject of ridicule here for years, and he was loathed by freepers a year before the primary because of global warming ad with Nancy and the Dede Scozzafava idiocy. Then suddenly, they decide this guy is the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan and I'm in the embarrassing position of being on the other side, and considering Newt an even worse choice than Romney! That was hell for a couple of months while freepers were drinking the Newt kool-aid. And after a while, it was completely pointless. He had won two states so the only possible reason to continue backing Newt was to stroke his own ego.
So who knows what will happen in 2016? Maybe they'll decide they love Peter King AGAIN and proclaim he's the New York version of Ronald Reagan. Stranger things have happened. He's name is mud as of this moment, and everyone (finally) acknowledges he's a backstabbing RINO (which I had been saying since he worked his butt off to save Clinton in '98), but I've seen King convince some gullible GOP voters he's their savior for seven straight elections now, because he's a "Straight shooter" who goes on the nightly conservative talk shows and beats his chest about how pro-life and anti-illegal alien he is.
Hopefully most of FR is on the same side as me in 2016, but after the love shown for Romney, Trump Perry, Gingrich, etc., I'm not very hopeful.