Posted on 04/26/2010 1:32:54 PM PDT by neverdem
The political axiom is familiar today. Republicans nominate the next in line. So it's been from Richard Nixon to John McCain.
The next presidential cycle could prove otherwise. The GOP establishment no longer rides herd over today's elephants. Conservative activists are both exceptionally galvanized and autonomous. It's a unique mix unseen in decades. And critically, the establishment's early favorite has an Achilles heel.
This conservative milieu begs the question: is 2012 the year of the Republican dark horse?
Mitt Romney should be the next Republican nominee. No less than 81 percent of Republican "insiders" say that Romney is the "most likely" to challenge Barack Obama in 2012, according to a January National Journal poll...
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But when the CBS/New York Times poll asked them what living U.S. political figure they most admire, half of the Tea Party supporters declined to select any of the prominent Republicans listed. Only 5 percent said Romney. Newt Gingrich led the list at 10 percent. This is a conservative grassroots movement with little reverence for the Republican establishment.
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Goldwater's supporters began as early as 1961 to win precincts and win over conservative activists. The Tea Party is following a similar trail. But they work for a stricter conservative establishment, not a singular conservative challenging the moderate establishment. A Republican dark horse will likely only emerge if he or she can become that singular conservative.
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Brewer - Ryan 2012
Brewer - King 2012
Brewer - Santorum 2012
Brewer/Ryan would be my choice!
...I just don’t think Romney can do it...it’s really hard to beat a sitting president...once Perot caused it to happen and once the Ayatolla made it happen...so it’s gonna take something big like that to cleanse us of Obama.
Sarah Palin
Screw Mitt Romney.
I’m not interested in voting for McCain Lite.
Do not know enough about her.
There seem to be some people who are willing to support anyone who happens to be big news at the time, ala Scott Brown, I won’t name Frantzie, but I think we know who they are.
lol.
:)
If Sarah Palin can gut the Republican party after the 2010 mid-terms. and then rebuild it in 12 months..
we are in business
But it is going to take some serious nasty politics
Add Gingrich to that discard pile with Romney.
Hey Sarah - taking from a stupid Eagle song (The Eagles s*ck):
“There is a new kid in town - everybody is talking about the new kid.”
Maybe Jan Brewer is the conservative, anti-amnesty and non-mccain stooge we have been waiting for.
Willard the Rat would snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory as POTUS Nominee!
“The political axiom is familiar today. Republicans nominate the next in line”
The author is completely off base. The next in line would be Mike Huckabee, and NOT Romney. Huckabee received more Republican delegates (278) than Romney (271) and was the 2nd place finisher.
Flavor of the week...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is much worse than the Ayatoullah, and he will probably have nukes by 2012, and be a heck of a lot more dangerous than the Ayatollah ever was. Not to mention 0bama has 0bamacare round his neck like an albatross. Heck, even Ron Paul and Goerge Bush are running neck and neck with 0bama right now already.
The Kenyan is history come 2012.
Sarah Palin? Isn’t she that one who is a big McCain supporter?
I heard she is doing Pro-McCain ads on KFI in So Calif.
We need conservatives like Brewer and Bachmann not friends of McCain.
Lots of knee-jerk around here.
Palin supporting McCain is a mistake.
But even Sandy Koufax made some mistake pitches. Michael Jordan took mistake shots.
If a dark horse will emerge, it will be a someone who has a plan to restore jobs in the private sector.
Another Perot type [who had the big ears to hear the job sucking sound unheard by the two majors] would win, unless he was barred from the debates to keep his message unheard.
Alas no one is in sight.
Sarah Palin
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