The bottom line?
If this is the best the Republicans can do, they might as well concede right now.
Posted on 03/05/2011 1:49:45 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Economist provides the handy chart below assessing the Republican presidential field for 2012.
The bottom line?
If this is the best the Republicans can do, they might as well concede right now.
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The sad news is Romney will be the nominee. The rest of the story is that Oh Bummer will be re-elected.
The Republicans don’t want to win the WH for some reason, just like Bush vs Clinton...I’m tellin’ you...
Yeah, that chart isn’t biased at all. Nope.
Since when is “Mormon” code for “unelectable”, by the way? I don’t think anyone cares that Huntsman or Romney are Mormons. Hell, I don’t think anyone cares about them regardless.
This is from The Economist? That Communist rag?
This is such garbage. Nothing’s ever good enough for some people.
They said much worse about Reagan.
Trump is not a republican. Don’t be retarded.
Donald Trump Political Campaign Contributions 2008 Election Cycle
$1,300 03/31/2008 P CITIZENS FOR ARLEN SPECTER - Republican
$5,000 03/28/2008 P DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE - Democrat
$1,000 10/15/2007 P CITIZENS FOR ARLEN SPECTER - Republican
$2,300 09/24/2007 P FRIENDS OF WEINER - Democrat
$2,300 08/27/2007 P RANGEL FOR CONGRESS - Democrat
$2,300 08/27/2007 G RANGEL FOR CONGRESS - Democrat
$1,000 05/02/2007 P FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE - Democrat
$1,700 03/31/2007 G HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT - Democrat
$2,300 03/31/2007 P HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT - Democrat
Donald Trump Political Campaign Contributions 2010 Election Cycle
$1,000 04/07/2010 P FRIENDS OF SCHUMER - Democrat
$1,600 12/11/2009 G FRIENDS OF SCHUMER - Democrat
$400 12/11/2009 P FRIENDS OF SCHUMER - Democrat
$2,400 10/16/2009 P CHARLIE CRIST FOR US SENATE - None
$2,400 10/16/2009 G CHARLIE CRIST FOR US SENATE - None
$2,000 05/20/2009 P FRIENDS OF SCHUMER - Democrat
$2,400 03/26/2009 P FRIENDS FOR HARRY REID - Democrat
Horseshit.
It is reaching the point that one must ask; can any reputable person participate in the electoral process?
Maybe the Messiah will be re elected. If people are too stupid to see by their voting again for the Messiah that Muslim nuclear terrorism, Zimbabwe type inflation, and turning America into a third world country; etc., will certainly come (if they don't come sooner), then maybe one should just stick a fork in America. It was nice while we knowed ya.
Near as I can tell, there will NOT be a reliable poll until November of 2012. Bank on it. Everything out between now and October 2012 has an agenda behind it.
If Saudi Arabia goes down on 3/11 and we see $5+ gas, there won’t be elections in 2012.
From where I’m viewing things, even a pig with lipstick on it could beat the current White House resident. I’ll write that in on the ballot too, if it comes to it.
If none of these people can beat an open socialist who is destroying the dollar and shutting down our economy, then our problems are bigger than what any candidate can solve.
We aren’t doing our job in educating the public, and we aren’t doing our job in building the networks we need to reach the public and explain ourselves. We’ve ceded to our ideological enemies all the infrastructure of the war of ideas, we let them educate generations of our kids, and then wonder why our best candidates are unable to beat the worst candidate the Dems could possibly rally around.
Obama is a disaster, and if we can’t make that case with even our worst candidate then we are headed for dark days.
Nope, won't happen. But if he is nominated, it will be the death knell for the Republican Party... Guaranteed effective 3rd party.....
Well, to my mind they pretty much have it right. Now on to the Senate...
In the lead up to the 1980 election, Democrats were hoping that Ronald Reagan would be the Republican nominee. They thought that he would be the weakest opponent against Jimmy Carter.
I’m not saying that anyone on the list is an obvious 2nd coming of Reagan. Just saying that Reagan was considered unelectable by the elites of his day, and we see what happened in his elections.
It is going to be a brutal election in 2012. It will be a close election. Obama is definitely vulnerable, but will have a united Democrat party and unified support among the radical left and MSM as well.
Remember too, in 2012, numerous vulnerable Democrat senators are up for re-election. The Republicans have a better than 50-50 chance of gaining control of the Senate, and will almost certainly keep the House in 2012.
Events in the world and who the Republican nominees for pres. and VP are will determine who wins the Nov. 2012 pres. election.
I agree with the chart’s conclusions. The GOP short list is short an electable candidate. Also, we need a real conservative who the general public likes enough that we get enough voters in the center to win. When elected, our candidate needs to stay true to the right, not move to center left.
“The sad news is Romney will be the nominee.”
Nope. Won’t happen.
I’ll bet a solid quarter that he is the nominee; time will tell.
There’s 10-12 on that list that can beat Obama, barring a major shift in the economy. When gas prices reached these levels in 2008, that was one of - if not the - largest catalysts that drove the economic collapse. The bottom line is every cost goes up for business and individuals when it costs this much to move goods, people, and individual families. If that economy was brought to its knees, this weak, hobbled economy will be down for the count.
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