Obama might be in trouble for 2012

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Macamus Prime

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It will be great!

Get a Replublican President, declare war on Iran and then have the entire fucking USA burst into flames. A nuclear strike won't kill the important Americans, they will be hiding in the vaults with their money.

I wonder if Iranians will be willing to work for your money,.. or just flat out take it?
 

theeedude

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Boring prognostication thread is boring. It's not even 2012 yet, much less election season. I for one am looking forward to Republican primary freak show for the entertainment value, if nothing else.
 

jonks

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Lets say there was a magic wand that republicans in the house could waive that would either get the economy back on track quickly, or derail it further.... would they waive the wand and fix the economy (thus helping their constituents), or would they derail the economy further to avoid another 4 disastrous obummer years?

As you said, given such power they would almost certainly waive the responsibility.
 

FerrelGeek

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I'd genuinely like to see Daniels run. I lived in IN for 2 years and was very impressed by him. Yes, he could overcome much of what the MSM would try to throw at him. Yes, money does put one in the driver's seat; not whining, just stating a fact. But I'm aware that the dems spent a fair bit last year and still got beat. Money will give Obama a big leg up, but is no guarantee if the economy is in the tank. As to the third, go review your history of the 1960 pres election, son. Chicago and sleezey politics go together like beer and pizza.

If a good candidate like mitch daniels runs your first point is invalid. your second point is basic politics-he who has the cash is in the drivers seat. your third point is baseless and frankly ignorant. We hear the bs tired canard of voter fraud and its BASELESS....

in other words your the one being manipulated by media...
 

JTsyo

Lifer
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Who's going to beat him? Trump/Palin? Huckabee/Bachmann?

Go ahead- see if you can convince me that the electorate won't pick Republican-lite over real looney tune Republicans...

Yea, I think for the Republicans to have a chance they need to bring in someone new rather than the same old. Kind of like what the Democrats did with Obama.
 

GuitarDaddy

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That's what I think as well. Which leads to an interesting question. Lets say there was a magic wand that republicans in the house could waive that would either get the economy back on track quickly, or derail it further.... would they waive the wand and fix the economy (thus helping their constituents), or would they derail the economy further to avoid another 4 disastrous obummer years?


If you could ever put together one coherant sentence without using the word obummer, someone might listen to you.
 

hal2kilo

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Feb 24, 2009
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Wrong.

Elections with a sitting president come down to ONE thing. Does that president deserve a second term, period.

The chances that the Republicans are going to nominate someone so awful that people would rather have a bad president over the alternative is virtually nil.

You lefties are living in fantasy land dreaming of Palin or Huckabee or Bachman as the GOP nominee. The GOP has a great track record of picking winning candidates (McCain was actually ahead until the banking crisis) and any dreams of Palin or Huckabee are just that, dreams.

Speaking of living in a fantasy/sock puppet world.
Political reality has never been one of your strong points.
 

jonks

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Speaking of living in a fantasy/sock puppet world.
Political reality has never been one of your strong points.

Well, fantasy world or not, he's probably right. GOP tends to end up with conservative types, and I don't mean that entirely ideologically speaking. Gun to head, Romney is the likely guy mostly because he says the least insane things. Disagree with him all you want, but he doesn't come off like a raving lunatic. But primaries are funny things as we've seen quite recently so who the hell knows.