My sediments as well. If Perry gets the nod, well, what can I do? Support him? Of course. But as someone concerned about his country, I have to be responsible and help put forth the best challenge to Obama. Perry just doesn't cut the mustard IMHO. BTW, Dick Morris somewhat agrees. See his video post here (new thread).
Morals has nothing to do with it. I work on pure logic. Given all the variables involved and all the unknowns I can't see how over a year out Democrats and Republicans on this forum make such emphatic rigid predictions. Only one person is going to be re-elected/elected president in 2012. So logic would dictate crow is going to be the official meal of PoliticalForum.com unless people start tempering their wild predictions. Its just logic. Nothing more, nothing less.
I agree with you. I don't like that a presidential candidate has to have a good image. I would like to vote purely on policy, but I can't. I live in the real world. When I first heard about Perry, I thought people were joking because of the similarities between him and Bush (image-wise). I think Perry will be a 100% better president than Obama, but we have to convince 51% of the population (or electorate, whatever). Romney is solid, steady, can debate. I would love to see Gingrich, but I think there is too much commentary to dig through and they can (with lies and distortions, of course) destroy him with ads. He'd win every debate, though. I would trust all of the Republican candidates with the handling of my country's affairs over Obama, but I guess it boils down to the only man right now I can trust the general public with is Romney.
Additional thought: I think the reason it appears we can't get excited about one guy strongly over the others is because the general public is forcing us into a box (to care about image, looks, charisma, good speaker, etc) that some or most Republicans don't care about. We care about substance, policy and past political history. So, where Romney is our best guy in reality, in a fantasy world, we would love to get 100% behind Gingrich or Paul.
Crow is definitely my meal for predicting Perry. But it doesn't follow that everyone making a prediction will be wrong. Nor does it follow that one ought not to predict, without employing morality. You're in a logical corner, I'm afraid.
Don't count out Gingridge. Gingrich: Still a 'Wide Open Race' Gingridge would trounce Obama. He is the real mastermind behind the Clinton success.
I for one am honest enough to say I would rather have a devout Christian like Perry than a quasi-Christian/Morman like Romney. However, if Romney wins the nomination, I will gladly support him. It can be argued that both have rino qualities, but the Tea Party people will more likely support Perry. It is still Perry's nomination to lose, but I still think he will pull it out. Perry will improve his debating skills enough to make "teleprompter boy" appear to be the fool he is.
lol republicans are even counting out gingrich. what on earth makse you think a guy republicans dont even want could win the general election?
Actually, we're not. We just admit he's got baggage, but would vote for him enthusiastically over the idiot child occupying the White House now.
of course you will.... you will vote for anyone the gop tells you to because OBamas evil and wants to kill whitey. that sort of logic is REALLY going to motivate the gop to pick someone other than the RINOs they always pick lmao dont you want to make them earn your vote opposed to just getting terrified everytime and falling in line?
Keep telling yourself that so you can sleep from now until the assbag is unseated by whoever is the GOP winner.
The trend for Obama is down. It seems that the more the public sees Obama the less the like him. And he has another year and a half the public to look him over and drop in the polls.
I will not have a choice who gets the nomination. The state I live in is screwed on that. I would vote for David Duke over Obama. Why? Because Obama is the worst POS ever to soil the Oval Office. How brilliant are you, to vote again for such a completely useless bag a feces? He's f*%*$ed up enough, hasn't he?
Hard to believe liberals are still predicting an Obama victory. Obama himself is already planning for life after office.
Oh, I won't be sleeping. I will be organizing a group to vote for the least electable Republican candidate in the South Carolina primaries. Hopefully I can give some momentum to an unelectable nutjob like Bachmann.
It's hard to see how the GOP could be so lost as to think they stand a bat's chance in hell of winning 2012. None of your candidates have high favorability ratings. You have to carry every swing state to be able to win, and your chances of doing that are very low with such poor favorability ratings. Obama may be unpopular, but the Republicans are even less popular, and there is no way you can unseat an incumbent president with such poor popularity.
