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2012 Elections Part I: All Politics is Yokel

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Kepler said:
Ouch.

To be fair, I did think McCain flipped on torture, but I'll be very glad to be proved wrong. So many of last elections debates turned into torture one-ups-manship shams that it's hard to recall whether McCain was one of the jackals baying for blood.
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it does seem like ancient history now. And McCain did run a pathetic campaign, and flopped around on many issues like a dying trout. And lost for it. But I still recall his willingness to stand firm against torture, and his personal hard-earned authority on the issue, to be a redeeming quality. why I resented his investment being characterized as giving the RNC a *******, or whatever; quite the opposite.
 
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Good to hear Newt's running. I hope he's not running as a Republican or a Tea Party guy after this ad though.

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That won't matter, he will run on Family Values...and I am sure his two ex-wives will be right behind him supporting him :D
 
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Handyman said:
That won't matter, he will run on Family Values...and I am sure his two ex-wives will be right behind him supporting him :D
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We must prevent the gays from marrying to protect the sanctity of Newt's three marriages!
 
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So, Huckabee decides to stick with his tv show and speaking tours and not run for the Republican nomination.
 
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This is neither local nor yokel, but I don't know where else to put it...

It's not just the Democrats. It looks like left parties in general might have an intrinsic ability to self-destruct, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

The latest and greatest example:

The sexual wrath of Dominique Strauss-Khan, managing director of the IMF*.

Sarkozy is vulnerable. But he's not that vulnerable.


*insert joke about the IMF screwing more than just South American countries
 
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The Donald makes clear what we all knew: just a pub stunt. One moron jackwagon down, two (Bachmann and Everybody's Favorite) to go.

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If there's no Bachmann or Palin it's going to be a pretty dull election cycle. Bachmann is probably going to run. She knows with Huckabee gone she can win Iowa and put some pressure on the all the other ones for her endorsement down the road.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
If there's no Bachmann or Palin it's going to be a pretty dull election cycle. Bachmann is probably going to run. She knows with Huckabee gone she can win Iowa and put some pressure on the all the other ones for her endorsement down the road.
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Pat Robertson won Iowa once so I guess literally anything's possible there. Since the GOP field is such garbage, I wonder whether Paul might actually get some sort of traction. He's the only person in the country who appeals to TPers, sentients, and people under 80.

A Paul-Obama national election would be amazing, since real issues would be discussed in an adult manner for the first time since we started running B movie actors for president.
 
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How dare you besmirch of the good name of Ronald "I Named Names" Reagan! He may have lied to Congress and the people, but he died for our sins!!!!
 
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Kepler said:
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Palin doesn't run. I'd put Bachmann at about 50/50. Bet she's looking at what's involved financially and hesitating. The Donald is out, but Newt continues his interesting game of fighting everyone. With Paul (possibly unelectable due to radical ideas, if not positive) now surfacing as one of the few left standing.

This could be most entertaining nomination of a lifetime.
 
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5mn_Major said:
Palin doesn't run. I'd put Bachmann at about 50/50. Bet she's looking at what's involved financially and hesitating. The Donald is out, but Newt continues his interesting game of fighting everyone. With Paul (possibly unelectable due to radical ideas, if not positive) now surfacing as one of the few left standing.

This could be most entertaining nomination of a lifetime.
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Not if there's no Bachmann or Palin.
 
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Palin's not going to run for the same reason Huckabee didn't. She gets to make a crapload of money going around the country yelling derp.

Being President is actual work in comparison. My money's on Pawlenty right now. Boring, not obviously insane, no skeletons that I've heard of yet.
 
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bronconick said:
Palin's not going to run for the same reason Huckabee didn't. She gets to make a crapload of money going around the country yelling derp.

Being President is actual work in comparison. My money's on Pawlenty right now. Boring, not obviously insane, no skeletons that I've heard of yet.
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Fantastic choice. He ran Minnesota into the ground, now he can bring that to Washington.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
Fantastic choice. He ran Minnesota into the ground, now he can bring that to Washington.
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You guys have no room to complain about your Republican (ex) governor. You could have had a Walker, Snyder, Daniels or Kasich instead. :p
 
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5mn_Major said:
This could be most entertaining nomination of a lifetime.
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It's going to be hard to beat the Obama-Hillary steel cage match. For political junkies, that was pure crack.

2010 may have hurt 2012's chance to be The Greatest Derp Show in History, because a lot of the really crazy stuff got played out. If the TP was just ramping up with no internal divisions and if the Dems had all three branches so the GOP could run purely as the outsider, we might have really seen complete lunacy. Instead this is shaping up to be 1996 and some solid party guy gets to take a shot and hope something horrible happens to the incumbent in summer. Newt might be perfect, actually. We saw how Mavericky McCain wound up an RNC lapdog in exchange for his chance. Gingrich can do the same thing this time around. I dunno if the Born Yesterdays like him all that much -- college boys can't be trusted, I hear.

If the economy actually starts improving and it looks like a rout, I wonder if Biden might take the train. He no longer brings the Dems anything electorally and he has zero future (he'll be 76 in 2016). Do the Dems have anybody of note out there? McCaskill? The various Udalls? Who wants to be the president that makes Obama the Chief Justice in 2018? ;)
 
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