What's your prediction for the Republican ticket?

I'm guessing Romney/Bachmann. After the primaries, Mitt will have to throw a bone to the Tea Partiers. That bone is the psycho, Cruella da Vil-wannabe, Michelle Bachmann.

What's your guess?

I pity the fool!

(six words and I screw it up)

even though the second quote was BA Baracus (the Clubber character was better)

Then Jeb! comes riding in on his dark horse and captures the nomination.

Jeb will be drafted as the "compromise candidate". Watch him put Nikki Haley in as VP...

The tea party will do their best to deny Romney the nomination. Do not be surprised if they go the convention deadlocked and chose a compromise candidate.

Romney will not get out of the Southern primaries alive.

I cannot remember a time when a Party kept saying
such disparaging things about their candidates.
It is downright insulting IMO.

I do not thing Perry is the great savior.

Gosh this is hard. Sometimes, I have the vision
of them going to Fla and drafting Jeb. He seems
pretty adamant about not running.

Among the actual candidates, if the election were next
week, I would say Romney.

One thing, the GOP has is Party Loyalty. They are
pretty good at getting the people to rally round the
Candidate once chosen.



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she'll run the lap with him on his dime, like she did with the last old man

...I mean minus 1...

I mean, that is a ticket straight to HELL.

:scared:

Amen.

they'd spend too much time fighting over the hairspray.

They are looking for another Dole, another McCrank.

They want Obama to stay in power so they can keep saying NO and keep fucking over the country via their other "elected" officials while blaming the tremendous mess on "the democrat party" and, of course, the first president of color.

They rammed Bush Jr in there in 2000 on a 5/4 vote, then came up with electronic voting machines with proprietary code owned by republican operatives to keep the stupid bastard in office in '04, in spite of vote fixing charges in Ohio and elsewhere.

Obama's win in '08 gave them an opportunity to "prove" the voting machines weren't fixed, as well as the opportunity to shift blame elsewhere. I believe (and this is based on my own observation, period) they will continue to fuck over the country while pointing at everyone else, and, since most of the nation now has miniscule attention spans unable to get over Anthony Weiner's dick or whatever happened on the tee vee shows and gossip rags and whatever is next to come down the "LOOK OVER THERE!" pike, the profitable corporate entertainment divisions known as "news" will continue to cover whatever bullshit will keep people from thinking about WARS that are breaking us and the fact that millions of Americans have lost their homes and are at or approaching suicidal ideation and everything you can buy in America was made by Communist slave workers and will fall apart when the warranty runs out--all this so the corporations can run more ads and sell more grease, sugar and chemicals in the "food" we buy, and crap products from China, and fuck you, I've got mine, get yer own damn healthcare, die for all I care, must be cuz Jesus don't like you, asshole!

And ain't it convenient that God hates the same folks I hate!

The establishment candidte plus a young, hispanic tea party Southerner.

and the ongoing FBI investigation of the GOP credit card fiasco could bring it to light.

Google "Amber Stoner."

VP is wide open. Maybe Rubio. Maybe someone we're not even considering right now.

I think they'll want a woman in the VP slot. I can't see it being Bachmann; I don't think Romney will pick her. Maybe Nikki Hailey.

What we see currently is part of the noise machine. I don't think any of them will be viable after NH or Iowa.

He attended that NWO fiasco.

Probably the strongest ticket they could put forward.

For just the right moment. Not sure who, but when he/she "comes out," it'll be like, "ooooooh, THAT'S who they want!" I've been thinking lately, who might that person be? Jeb keeps popping into my head, maybe Paul ryan. Maybe it will be Romney/Bachmann, but I just get the feeling like we have yet to see who the republican nominee will be.
ANyone else wonder this, or is it just me?

the party believes that if they can get him to run, by the time the SC primaries come, he should wrap up the nomination.

I'll never get the love affair with that greaseball.

who calls himself "progressive," understands why people like him. He's a tough, smooth talker, which to most people means he's right. Mean spiritedness is a trait that Americans seem to embrace; they mistake it as "strength." Even if they don't agree with the policy, they somehow like "straight talking" weasles like their fatso governor.

Democrats are far too timid. They make me sick sometimes with that shit. It's one of the reasons why we keep losing elections! We falsely believe that since we're right on our ideas and our philosophy, Americans will use logic and reason and make the right decision. This is bad, irresponsible thinking. Yes, our side is right. And yes, most Americans agree with us and not them. The problem is that the Republican Party sells its ideas to the American people in simple, tough-talk language that Americans seem to gravitate to. Democrats are too nuanced. We simply need to find a better way to market our ideas!

No matter who gets it.

to take him to task for killing jobs, for his flip-flops on a host of economic and social issues, and for his corruption.

People on our side continue to delude themselves and write off Romney in the South because they WRONGLY believe that Republicans won't get behind a Republican candidate! That is false! They WILL get behind ANY Republican candidate, even Mitt Romney. Why? Because they HATE Obama!

However, putting Bachmann on the ticket will appease the religious fascists and the bigots. The ticket, then, will satisfy the corporate interests and Bachmann will bring the Teabaggers onboard.

I truly believe this!

after the debate. This one wouldn't surprise me at all.

Who is selected is pretty much meaningless. They're all morons of the first water.

:bounce:

Mittens is going to have to do something to bring the teabaggers on board.

They had a whack job on the last ticket with a "respectable" Republican and you see how that turned out. It will be too easy for the Dems to say, "Look who would be a heartbeat from the Presidency" and scare reasonable independents.

Not going to happen.

It will be two old white guys. They will go back to their tried and true with their base and expect the crazies to come along.

Romney right now looks very good to win the Republican nomination. He will pick Rubio for VP because first, a Republican can't win the White House without Florida (The GOP has lost the popular vote there in 2 of the last 3 elections). Secondly they will hope Rubio will cut into the hispanic vote the democrats are counting on. Obama had 67% of the hispanic vote in 2008. If Obama gets over 70% of the hispanic vote in 2012, he is pretty close to mathematically unbeatable.

its not a must win for us.

it will also be interesting to note that Rubio is Cuban. While Cubans are hispanic, being Cuban is significantly different than being Mexican. I am not sure how Rubio will impact Mexican American voters who Obama will be counting on in other regions of the country.

It is a shame FL Democrats let Rubio win that contest in FL.. they could have elected Crist if they united on one candidate.

'Latinos' being lured by Rubio. They are such simple folks, and all alike, they do not see Rubio as a right wing Cuban, they see him as one of their own! Such tripe. Crist lost, and he was not the Democratic candidate, but a Nader like Third Party ego tripper, expect that unlike Nader, this Third Party ego tripper was from the right wing, moments away from chanting along with Palin, 'Drill baby, drill'.
I am opposed to the whole Third Party Right Winger thing. I'm a Democrat. Can't wipe the Palin spittle from your lapels and come tell me you are a worthy choice, that's for sure.
Rubio is strictly an East Coast act. He will not play out west at all. Do not buy the racist crap about how 'they' will all relate to him.

Rubio attracts Latinos and non-Latinos.. He is a slick, good looking, fast talking, smart sounding car salesman type that can get votes from people who dont even agree with his politics.

Im a Democrat too.. but not so narrow minded as to not use strategic voting from time to time to our advantage.

I really haven't seen her much. all my impressions of her were from posts here on DU. People here painted her as a crazy loon that couldn't speak in sentences, that was a loser extraordinaire.

she does not come across that way at all. She is being propped for the Position of Pres. Most likely will be Bachman/Romney.

I think DU has been snookered. Compared to the rest of the group, she sounds pretty good. I know we here know a lot more about her than the media will ever let on, but lord tunderin' jeebus, she's the one.

What would be better to debate the first black president than the first white female contender? The press will cream their pants at even the slightest 'meaness' coming from Barack, the black mean guy. That was tried with Hillary, remember? That he was being so ungentlemanly, so mean to the little tender lady! and him just simply saying that line, what was it: She's likable enough? That sent people off their friggen ledges saying that was horribly mean and viscious! which was ultra idiotic nonsense

That wasn't the real Bachmann. Trust me there is no way the GOP would nominate her. Quite frankly, we are just not that lucky.

the media pundits are being very kind to her and elevating her over the other candidates. I guess they have to accept their precious Sarah isn't running (but who knows, not THAT one is proven batshit crazy by what I've seen) so have to pick another favourite.

I think most of the others knows that Bachman is the chosen one. They are just there to make her look good in comparison. Cept for Paul, I don't think he'd be part of that.

we will see.

regardless of who they pick.

I say Paul/Mike Lee.

She is the "new" Palin and it's Mitt's "turn".

I thought the same thing.But it is a long way off.

Book it.

Laugh if you must, but I've been posting this for a year or two, and everything these two have done, including Condi's new biography, is exactly what they need to be doing to make it possible for them to run. They will be going after Iran, trying to force our candidates to sponsor an official invasion.

And, if the economy stays as it is, it will be a very tough ticket to beat.

Miserable failure and defeat.

... he's much to liberal in terms of social issues (for the republican party ) and won't convince the extreme rw repubs (they're all --that-- right winged these days) that he is anti abortion. He'll also be hounded over the Massachusetts health care reform while he was governor.

I say Pawlenty and Palin will be on the republican ticket for 2012.

I hope I'm right. Obama needs to win again to continue steering this country into a reasonable direction.