Here's a few names for ya. First, the reformers, that would have a chance of putting the GOP back on track in 2012:
1) Lou Dobbs
2) Michael Bloomberg
3) Jeff Flake
4) Joe Scarborough
5) there's gotta be more? who am I missing?
And then the standard same-old, same-old right wing GOP hacks, that would go down to a Mondale-like defeat against Obama/Biden:
1) Newt Gingrich
2) Sarah Palin
3) Bobby Jindal
4) Mitt Romney
5) Tim Pawlenty
6) Mike Huckabee
7) Bill Frist
8) Mark Sanford
My prediction? Same-old, same-old, and the GOP puts up Mitt Romney who'll get slaughtered. Or they'll go with new and fresh and put up Jindal, who'll also get slaughtered, being that he's a far right wing loon. Or they'll go back-to-the-future with Gingrich. That would be fun, but of course, he'd get slaughtered too.
Then, in 2016, after a decade out of power, you'll see the young centrist reformers make their move, against some boring Democratic nominee like Mark Warner. And that'll be an interesting election.
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I think it's gonna be Gingrinch. He's totally postioning himself. I understand that he orchestrated the Republican house members who rejected the bailout on the 1st vote. He did this while McCain was taking credit for its passage. Total and complete sandbag. The remaining house and senate republicans will gravitate to him. He'll be the establishment pick. He'll fight it out with Huckabee.
Right now the Elite are too busy destroying the American Economy to worry about their 2012 Puppets.
What makes you think we even have a country in 2012? I think this economic crisis will destroy the US and we get revolution by next summer.
The end of the 2 party system is at hand.
Joe M.
Adolph Hitler II as a write in candidate.
GOP = DEAD.
I predict the new reformed Jack Abramoff will be the emerging face of the next generation of leaders in the Republican party. He will say he's changed and learned his lesson, wink, wink Grover Norquist!Scary! Also Newt will never be electable again. He may be able to become a talk show host but that's it!
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger
Our first immigrant president.
Jeff Gannon.
We're pretty impressionable, after all.
Keith,
Bloomberg is NO prince. People outside NYC don't kow the way he manipulates the NYC Council: badgers, berates, strong arms, threatens them to get his way on changing the NYC lws so he can simply get his way through 'administrative changes'. He's on his way to a third term by hard core behind the scenes manipulation of laws voted for 2 times by the NYC public.
And,, to balance his 'progressive environmental' policies, he's fully backed just as many filthy projects to crap-up New Jersey, Long Island, and Westchester Counties so that the oil companies, water sources, other utilities still get their profits but ned to ruin places outside of NYC to do it.
Now he says he needs a third term beciase he's the only one who can handle a 'fiscal crisis'. Guliani said the same thing about neededing a third term after 9/11, he was supposedly the only one who coud 'deal with the crisis'. same old shit from the same old crowd.
Bloomberg is so arrogant he feels he doesn't need to go to the very people who voted him in to ask for more time than they agreed to. He may have made some positive changes but he also hurt a lot of worthwhile causes and entities the last 7 years. There's a lot of destruction in his wake, including other old NYC laws that were fine for many decades until they got in his way. it's time for him to go, let someone else take over. And I would not want his brand of behind the scenes bulling on a national level.
Please quit calling him he's a reformer. He sold out and got corrupted by thoughts of more power over the last 7 years, just like McCain.
The bench is thin....after the circular firing squad massacres take place when Mr. Magoo and the Disasta from Alaska go down in defeat, the big money boys and intellectuals will take control of the party from the neocons, religious wackos, bigots and right-wing zealots of guns,god and gays.
Romney,IMO, fits the bill, today, from what's out there today.
Noodles said...
I think it's gonna be Gingrinch.
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You are probably right. Newt is the only plausible GOP candidate. The bible-banging fringe, along with Huckabee, will have fallen from grace, as it were, and the fact that the hypocritical Newt was having an affair on his own wife while he was going after FarmBoy for getting a humjob from Monika doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore.
I wonder more and more whether the GOP will split wide open to form two parties, the fringe opposite poles are getting wider apart every day.
Mayor Bloomberg is just another politician who masqueraded as a reformer. Once upon a time he believed in political reform and was a supporter of term limits. However, it seems that term limits don't look so good when he's on the losing end of the deal. His last minute appeal to extend the limits because of the financial crisis stinks of corrupt politics as usual, especially since he's been "exploring" how to get himself another term since last summer. This is how facists stay in power.
Besides, he would never be the GOP nominee - he was a lifelong Democrat who turned Republican simply because his party of choice wouldn't run him. He hasn't been able to abide being associated with the GOP for a long time now.
Something devious and traitorous (yes, greater than anything we already know) is going to come out and the Republican Party is going to meet death by revulsion.
Grandma pkk
Just as Carter led to Reagan, Obama will lead to someone much like him who will win in similar fashion.
Look for a very conservative, very charismatic governor with a strong libertarian streak to emerge over the next 4 years.
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