Your 2012 Presidential Candidate Speculation Thread

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wow. just wow

No

for real

msnbc is so ineloquent right now

and fox: "because now on this planet look at the united states of america the man who um did this who won this election you know um from the beginning this wasn't an evolution that would happen naturally and i think that um this guy put that word before us and man that guy can talk"

what a night. grant park. yes we can. wow

he won florida. the market bottomed before the election. he has a mandate now to do something fucking smart, and he better. hard not to cry right now. go barack!

mccain delivers a humane concession

Come on guys, feel the Mittmentum!

I'm sure they just made that illegal in california.

Because I want to see how the 2010 Congressional elections play out first.

Plagiarism.

Nader.

Not anymore!

really?

oh.

..
:)

nader is busy squandering any dignity he had left, if he is still alive in 4 years he'll get seven votes.

I have no idea who the republicans are going to run. They're obviously going to have to rethink the direction of their party. Huckabee is probably their best shot but he'll have been out of office so long I kind of doubt it.

Right now I feel like they have no one good on the bench, but it always feels like that when you have four years to go. Who the fuck thought W was going to be president?

stfu, all of you, it is wednesday in america

Well, put it his way: If Oba has that Clinton thing, where people vote him because they like him, then anyone running against him is basically fulfilling a role and not hoping for preesidency.

So, Palin to oppose him then, then after the second term, they have someone who might actually win.

Because I want to see how the 2010 Congressional elections play out first.

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L O L

They're obviously going to have to rethink the direction of their party.

You would think so. However, I hope they run with the idea of a Palin presidential bid in 2012 so that they stay out of power for a looong time.

http://images-cdn01.associatedcontent.com/image/A7983/79832/300_79832.jpg

best case scenario the hardcore convinces themselves they lost cause mccain wasnt truly conservative - and another 10m republican voters peel off

hope to see u there! http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/iceprincess.jpg

let's wait til we see what the new publicly financed system promised for '12 looks like.

destroy thread.

so high last night i misunderstood gabbnebb's prompt. they will run someone as hard right at him as he is "liberal." conventional wisdom took a hit with his win. his opponent'll be a total reaganesque tax-cutter proponent, anti-big gov guy or gal. romney could play that role to a t, with maybe pawlenty or jindal as his veep. palin could too, if her rep recovers over the next few years

Dumber & Plumber 2?

http://www.unconfirmedsources.com/nucleus/media/13/20081031-palinwurzelbacherresize.jpg

Jindal/Romney

i saw jindal on h+c last night theres no way this insane fundie makes it thru the primaries

dude performs exorcisms

no joke

romney would be the perfect harmless sacrificial lamb after a strong obama 1st term

go ahead mittens u can do it lol

Romney/Pawlenty

Sarah Palin/Todd Palin

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

palin/kristol

palin/sparkles

kristol/gayle

lol starbusts i meant starbursts

lol I was all "what poor stripper are you pairing up with Sarah Palin?"

lol redundancy

email to the base: bush was john the anti-baptist, preparing the way for obamarx the anti-christ

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/nov/12/121422/dress-vows-vinoy-crists-wedding-details-revealed/

As governor, Crist has tended to lead more on the fundamentals than details of policy, leaving the latter to lawmakers to hash out. Not so, apparently, as bridegroom.
"The governor has been nice enough to participate and be part of the process," Rome said. "He was extremely active, for which I was really, really grateful – I was just so grateful; it's our special day, so it should be our shared vision."

Carole Rome said the couple will take only a few days of honeymoon. Given the governor's obligations in Tallahassee, she said, "I think we're going to keep it fairly short."

He insisted everything be perfect, describing his vision as "like fred astaire and ginger rodgers dancing as one in a luminous spotlight."

roffles

gonna go out on a limb here and say that both Romney and Huckabee will think "now they see I was the best candidate!" and run in '12, as might Bobby Jindal

Huckabee seems very likely to run. I think there's a good chance Romney will too - the mainstream (whatever that means) will probably line/has already lined up behind him. Jindal I'm not sure about - he's young and canny and may keep his powder dry. I want to know who Newt's gonna get behind (if not Jindal?).

anybody know if John Ensign has presidential ambitions?

realistically, what are ron paul's odds?

about 0, the only way I think he could get support is if Obama completely tanked everything

I can see a Ron Paul-type candidate winning in like 2032 though

hes always been a huge failure as a businessman. his success is in marketing the "trump" brand. he has at best a seven-figure net worth

Forbes 400 list has him at $2.4 billion fwiw

real rich people don't go on tv

http://images.buddytv.com/articles/the-oprah-winfrey-show/oprah.jpg

HI DERE!

fwiw, the guy whose company made beanie babies is listed at $2.4 bn, just one slot under Trump.

Oprah is nouveau riche.

The old line rich "do" politics, too, but only in the Averell Harriman mode.

also Oprah kind of owns tv so she gets to do whatever she wants with it

The old line rich "do" politics, too, but only in the Averell Harriman mode.

and he was governor of New York!

but, tastefully!

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani thinks real estate mogul Donald Trump is the "most exciting candidate in the race" for the White House in 2012.

i mean, he probably IS "the most exciting candidate in the race," at least right now

but... the Mittmentum!

the bass solos!
http://www4.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/McCain+Attends+Campaign+Rally+Cincinnati+5vHoaOFBZMkl.jpg

As Katie Couric gets set to leave CBS News after five years in the anchor chair, it doesn't appear as if Sarah Palin will be sending any flowers.

Appearing on Fox News Tuesday, Palin mocked the CBS newswoman who told People Magazine she is looking forward to a new position that will facilitate "multi-dimensional storytelling."

"Yeah, and I hear that she wants to now engage in more 'multi-dimensional story telling' versus I guess just the 'straight on, read into the, that teleprompter screen story telling,'" Palin said. "More power to her. I wish her well in her - 'multi-dimensional story telling.'"

like, uh, er, um...zing?

lamest zinger in the west

When has a Palin zing ever been executed as intended?

At one point in the unedited interview footage, Palin derisively says "book-smarts," makes a snorting sound, then quickly asks for a tissue and wipes her nose.

It doesn't matter what Palin says or does, the sycophants gonna be sycophantic and the toadies gonna eat toads.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/29/trumps-f-bomb-tirade/#more-157219

please run please run please run please please please please

Trump/Bachman '12 could bring me nothing but joy and racism

trump's analysis of the iraq war is kind of otm!

does Brooklyn need more schools?

I dunno, man: some of those Williamsburg hipsters hide IED's under their scarves.

Trump > Obama on Iraq

He'd change his tune after the inauguration, of course.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/29/trumps-f-bomb-tirade/#more-157219

please run please run please run please please please please

a few f-bombs, eh? Look to the media to make that into a "big fucking deal" and not his racism or transparent lies or completely moronic policy ideas... that stuff is par for the course it seems, but oh no - not swears!

LOL I hope Trump ties up the GOP primaries with his nonsense and when he finally loses to Romney, he runs third-party and the show never ends...

well remember, they tried to make Biden's "this is a big fucking deal!" over an open mic into an issue (although Biden's defense of "well, it was!" was pretty much awesome)

an awesome lie, it turns out.

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID43585/images/DebbieDownerRachaelDratch.jpg http://geekdome.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/plus_sign2.jpg http://www.moonbattery.com/church_lady.jpg

i've never gotten Church Lady before. That other one, yeah.

But ask for forgiveness on Sunday!

I was certain I had accused you of doing a superior dance before but a cursory search shows that I have apparently accused everyone on the boards EXCEPT you for doing one

:)

lezbee friends

^_^

Seth Meyers went after Donald Trump hard at tonight White House Correspondents' Dinner, WITH Donald Trump in the audience. It filled me with great joy, largely because Trump couldn't tell him to shut up like he does everyone else. He just had to sit there and take it like a bitch.

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Live-Coverage-2011-White-House-Correspondents-Association-Dinner/10737421177-3/

bam laid into him too!

I haven't watched his part, but I'll queue it up.

Lion King video -> potshot at Fox News is the best thing he's done as President.

how many jokes about Wall Street dough, rendition, and indefinite detention?

Which seems like a good time to remind everyone that Jude Law is one of our very finest actors.

boy, Trump really does rhyme with "grump."

yeah set missed a lay up imo -- "i had written some jokes about the president but unfortunately they're being held indefinitely in guantanamo bay"

seth*

i did think he was pretty great tho -- i figured that trump would be hamming it up soaking in all the publicity but he looked pretty pissed

it is probably kinda a tightrope btw joyless & moronic but having a straight face throughout seems ridiculous. obama cracking up at only if the blacks are a family of white people was lol

i did think he was pretty great tho -- i figured that trump would be hamming it up soaking in all the publicity but he looked pretty pissed

he looks that way to me too but in fairness every camera shot of him I've seen during the speech is like half-lit & from a distance and it's like - if he was smiling and taking it in good humor I'm not sure you'd be able to tell, those shots are all grim-lookin dude with a toupee in the Hilton halflight

I will always enjoy pictures of Mike Huckabee playing bass guitar.

First Trump said he didn’t expect to be so much of a focus during the event, but “I guess when you’re leading in most of the polls, that tends to happen.”

Then he turned his focus to Meyers: “I thought Seth Meyers, frankly, his delivery was not good. He’s a stutterer and he was having a hard time.”

Seth Meyers you're fired

Trump not particularly convincing at the PR strategy of "just say what you hope people will think is true"

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/easel/images/galleries/063728_santorum_richard.jpg