The Official Bendis Board 2012 Presidential Campaign Thread

[Stark Raving]

It's going to be interesting to see what the Republicans do if/when President Obama wins in November.
Will they continue with the bugfuck crazy or will they get the message and start to moderate before the 2016 election?
If Romney loses by a good margin they'll have to get the message, right?

[michealdark]

One would hope, but the way things are now, it's doubtful. They'll instead be saying Santorum should have stayed in because he could have beat Obama

[Foolish Mortal]

The Republican base took the absolutely wrong tack to go further to the right when they should have gone hard towards center-right. But they can thank (or damn) the Tea Party for that.

[HOOKS]

Mitt Romney’s road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...7pT_story.html

[Foolish Mortal]

Mitt Romney’s road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...7pT_story.html

Let's not kid ourselves, Romney can definitely defeat Obama. I personally don't think he will, but he does have a chance.

[Ray G.]

Mitt Romney’s road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...7pT_story.html

Writing off Pennsylvania for Romney on a good night seems like a mistake at this point. Same for Wisconsin. Michigan's probably out of reach.

[michealdark]

The Republican base took the absolutely wrong tack to go further to the right when they should have gone hard towards center-right. But they can thank (or damn) the Tea Party for that.

Yeah, they suffered a bad case of the densities there

[Mister Mets]

It's going to be interesting to see what the Republicans do if/when President Obama wins in November.
Will they continue with the bugfuck crazy or will they get the message and start to moderate before the 2016 election?
If Romney loses by a good margin they'll have to get the message, right?

There are some who will argue (very wrongly) that the party's mistake would be that Romney was too moderate and that in 2016 we'll need someone like Reagan, George W Bush or a Republican version of Obama who was better at exciting the base.

It's probably not going to matter. The Republican bench in 2016 is pretty strong, and as was the case this year, the primaries will weed out the crackpots and the idiots. So the party will be left with a candidate who is palpable to the base, and has a reasonable chance of winning, with history on his/ her side (Since 1952, only one party has held the White House for more than two consecutive terms.)

As an aside, if Mitt Romney is elected President, I would bet money on Sarah Palin running against him in the 2016 primary.

[Ray G.]

There are some who will argue (very wrongly) that the party's mistake would be that Romney was too moderate and that in 2016 we'll need someone like Reagan, George W Bush or a Republican version of Obama who was better at exciting the base.

It's probably not going to matter. The Republican bench in 2016 is pretty strong, and as was the case this year, the primaries will weed out the crackpots and the idiots. So the party will be left with a candidate who is palpable to the base, and has a reasonable chance of winning, with history on his/ her side (Since 1952, only one party has held the White House for more than two consecutive terms.)

As an aside, if Mitt Romney is elected President, I would bet money on Sarah Palin running against him in the 2016 primary.

I don't think it'll be Palin. She's irrelevant and done in electoral politics.

I'm looking at Allen West or maybe a lesser-known Congressman like Louie Gohmert. Hell, Bachmann, possibly.

[Foolish Mortal]

I don't think it'll be Palin. She's irrelevant and done in electoral politics.

I'm looking at Allen West or maybe a lesser-known Congressman like Louie Gohmert. Hell, Bachmann, possibly.

Yeah, Palin will have slipped into complete obscurity by 2016.

Allen West and Bachmann will probably make another go.