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GrandPoobah -> RE: Ladies and Gentleman, the next President of the United States: Barack Obama! (2/25/2012 12:42:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
So, I think its fairly accurate to say that they will be nominating someone who is not running. Any ideads?
The obvious names...that keep popping up...are Rubio, Jeb Bush, and Christie. Each of them have their own problems.
Rubio is not widely known, and he would have to deal with the "I was raised Catholic, became a Mormon, and now I'm back to being a Catholic. I suspect the public has pretty much had enough with religion as a campaign issue, but he appears to have the most complex background, and with all the "wrong" churches. He would struggle because he's not well known.
Bush would carry all the baggage of the previous people of that name/clan. I don't think enough time has passed, and if somebody spoke the phrase: Vote for Bush, because it's worked so well the last two times the whole country would double over in laughter. He's said he doesn't want to do it, and I think he's got the right idea.
Christie would be more interesting, however, he has two things he'd have to confront. Like Rubio, he's not all that well known. There's not much time for a candidate to spread his name around between the convention and November.
His second problem, which could easily be used to tie him to the current mess, might even be more interesting.
When the New Jersey legislature took up the subject of Gay Marriage, Christie said he "...didn't think 121 elected officials should be deciding something like that..." and recommended it be referred to the voters as a whole. Okay, he's just ducking an issue, but that makes a certain amount of sense, even though poll showed a 55% favorable result in the state. Then, when the legislature passed it, he vetoed it.
So, he didn't think it was right for 121 people elected by the citizens to provide leadership to make the decision, but he DID believe it was just fine for 1 person elected by the same people TO MAKE THE DECISION. That is almost a textbook definition of Hypocrisy.
Beyond these three, who knows. I think Sarah is out of the picture, Jindal has pretty much faded from view (and is not well known), and the rest of the usual suspects wouldn't be any better.
It's a mess, but boy is it entertaining to watch. Very few people have ever seen a huge political party completely self-destruct before.
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