American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA

hoping there's a cruz for prez 2016 campaign and i picket for his real birth certificate

he'll run and not make it past a few primaries, would be my guess

Who gets their "turn" to run in '16?

Reagan - 1980 ('76)
Bush - 1988 ('80)
Dole - 1996 ('88)
McCain - 2008 ('00)
Romney - 2012 ('08)

Maybe we will get a Bush kid, just like 2000.

He'll get as far as Santorum on anger alone, and then some limp noodle will take the nomination (no idea who, though).

at the moment I would bet on Christie

Cruz will win some primaries and then flame out, will probably run into money problems etc. I hope the GOP field is as jampacked as last time cuz man that was some funny shit.

That bleeding heart liberal commie? Good luck. xp

I think Jeb would have real serious problems appealing to the GOP base

I suspect it's Paul Ryan's turn, and he will summarily be crushed by HRC.

not if he gets crushed by Christie first

argh that was not a double entendre fat joke

the safe bet is a chaotic primary w/ lots of joke candidates and someone with a history of being a moderate acts crazy enough to get the nom by default. ie the same thing that happened the last two times.

so christie becomes a tea partier

Running for sure:
Cruz, Ryan, Rand Paul, Christie, Rubio

Running maybe:
Jeb Bush, Santorum

can we make Santorum run until he's bankrupt

Bible Belters would have a hard time getting behind Christie, I think, but yeah, he's got as good a shot as any to get the nom.

the fat jokes really just write themselves

can we make Santorum run

Dude, enough with the double entendres!

bible belters eventually got behind mormon-who-created-obamacare...these people are pretty good at cognitive dissonance when it comes time

i wonder if you put a tea partier in the Room from Stalker if they'd finally get the politician of their deepest and truest desire. that politician would probably be Hitler

I reeeeally hope Rick Perry gives it a second try.

i'll take the outside bet: all the boring 'serious men' governors of the party who sat out '12 will give it a shot (daniels, jeb, kasich, maybe even walker), conservative media & donor orgs go ham on a 'return to adulthood after the juvenile obama years' theme

Santorum will totally run, what else does he have to do?

also whither Jindal lol

bible belters eventually got behind mormon-who-created-obamacare...these people are pretty good at cognitive dissonance when it comes time

I didn't say it couldn't be done, but they'll have to twist themselves into knots (again)

maybe it's time for ol Huckleberry to run again

Hell, dig up Goldwater's old bones and put him on the ballot. He'd probably win Arizona.

Cruz, Ryan, Rand Paul, Christie, Rubio

Of these, Ryan, Paul and Rubio are all jockeying to be the guy who can unite the tea party and pro-business factions, so they can rake in the fat donations and survive the primaries. Christie is running as the moderate who won't slide too far right and thus could get elected president so he could really deliver the goods for business. Cruz is going all-out for the nutso wing.

Goldwater/Brewer '16

I was under the impression Rubio's already been burned by the TP over the immigration thing

SAXBY CHAMBLISS '16

I didn't say Rubio knew how to accomplish his goal.

totally #teamsaxby

what would be the most ludicrously-named Republican ticket? Chambliss/Priebus?

they do have a lot of people that sound like pynchon characters/early 20th cent. tractor models

Bush/Walker

draft lindsey graham

2016 will be fun, but I will miss Herman Cain.

Uzbeckibeckibeckistan.

cain/mccain

Make that Megan McCain

Rubio and Christie are the only ones who can raise real money.

christie is way too phat

now I just wanna see Santorum in a top hat and monocle waving around Monopoly money while shouting "TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!"

top hat and a sweater vest

Who is the assumed Dem candidate these days?

Rubio's hated down here by Limbaugh Cubans. HATED.

Mark Sanford 2016

lol Limbaugh Cubans

knew you guys would like it!