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9. look

Mon Jan 2, 2012, 09:13 AM

Jan 2012

There isn't ONE of them that can come to the national stage and represent the policies that their party regularly promotes these days. Even more daunting to these other republican superstars supposedly sitting in the wings is that their own base is full of loonies who've grown up spoon-fed on FOX News' rovian world-view. There's not going to be a 'reasonable' republican candidate who can appeal to enough of their own electorate to make it past their primary. Therefore, there will never emerge some perfect republican candidate.

Incumbency is a different matter. Very difficult to unseat a sitting president.

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The Obama Campaign Is Not Kidding Around [View all] bigtree Jan 2012 OP

I look forward to the campaign. AtomicKitten Jan 2012 #1

It's going to be so fun. :) joshcryer Jan 2012 #2

You are welcome, i.e. that I'm NOT running against Obama in the Primaries. 99th_Monkey Jan 2012 #3

you act like Obama is floating in the air somewhere alone bigtree Jan 2012 #5

I actually hope you are right, is I think the part you're not getting. ~nt 99th_Monkey Jan 2012 #29

What's stopping you? Ikonoklast Jan 2012 #10

Excellent answer. Can you give me starter numbers to get in touch with Goldman Sachs and the DLC? JackRiddler Jan 2012 #28

Nothing is stopping me. I am a free spirit. 99th_Monkey Jan 2012 #30

A lot of us, warm and cozy in our barely affordable living spaces, working in geckosfeet Jan 2012 #12

Oh God, puh-leeze. Another mudslinger. FarLeftFist Jan 2012 #17

maybe we'll see some of this... Whisp Jan 2012 #32

AWESOME REPLY! fascisthunter Jan 2012 #18

Obama will win for 1 reason and 1 reason only suivezlargent Jan 2012 #4

I don't remember a republican candidate in my lifetime who wasn't bigtree Jan 2012 #6

Are you that young? hootinholler Jan 2012 #26

He's crazy, way out, far out, man. bigtree Jan 2012 #36

If they're so crazy, why are "Progressives" in such a rush to help them get elected? Scootaloo Jan 2012 #7

I agree, the pubs running all sound like lunatics quaker bill Jan 2012 #8

look bigtree Jan 2012 #9

"Very difficult to unseat a sitting president" - but unfortunately very possible groundloop Jan 2012 #11

A fact? Pulled out of your fact machine? geckosfeet Jan 2012 #13

hardly a fact WI_DEM Jan 2012 #15

I was briefly worried that sane Repukes would coalesce around coalition_unwilling Jan 2012 #16

So? treestar Jan 2012 #20

Welcome to DU... SidDithers Jan 2012 #22

a fact according to sulvexlargent. Whisp Jan 2012 #33

kick bigtree Jan 2012 #14

lol... only reason he will win is because there is no other option fascisthunter Jan 2012 #19

when have they ever been anything other than? bigtree Jan 2012 #21

No other option because Obama is the best out there. Life Long Dem Jan 2012 #39

Was there ever any doubt? Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #23

good point bigtree Jan 2012 #24

kick bigtree Jan 2012 #25

At the Occupy event in Milwaukee last fall I got a business card from a campaigner.... Scuba Jan 2012 #27

much more to this article (and the campaign) than the ping pong table bigtree Jan 2012 #34

this is going to be so gawd damned good. Whisp Jan 2012 #31

Whisp, you are WELCOME that I'm not running against Obama in the primary Number23 Jan 2012 #35

98 monkeys will vote for him. Whisp Jan 2012 #37

Obama's re-election will be the only thing where he will show a lot of conviction! dmosh42 Jan 2012 #38

2012 will be an even better-run campaign than 2008 for Obama. boxman15 Jan 2012 #40

better organization bigtree Jan 2012 #42

Kick Scurrilous Jan 2012 #41