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(81,240 posts)I'm hoping other republi-CON candidate wannabes will go after him with knives and forks because of this. I hope it's a bloodthirsty primary season for them, and that whoever emerges does so as thoroughly damaged goods. All the Dems hopefully will need to do is just take a whole slew of pages from the various campaign books during the GOP primary season. The bad guys will be doing all the groundwork and heavy lifting for our team and the eventual victor will arrive on the scene not exactly unscathed or injury-free.
Don't forget how the last season went. You had the king-of-the-week show for months, starting actually with the queen-of-the-week, because I think I recall michele bachmann won the Iowa caucuses, as ridiculous a notion as that is! She kicked off primary season in 2012 as the one to beat. And very soon she was, and that was that. It happened to a whole slew of 'em, including rick perry, santorum, newt, herman cain, and whoever else is manifestly forgettable here. One by one they fell as more and more of that side decided to hold its nose and vote for romney. christie is this season's flavor. I heard analysts and pundits on Monday, musing basically - "hey, whatever happened to marco rubio?" 'Cause at one time he, too, was the flavor-of-the-month, before his star faded out. Hopefully christie will, too, as more people get to know him and discover how much there is to dislike. And hopefully his own team will help erode his leadership without our having to do much to soften him up. Hopefully, if he's to be the one, they'll deliver him to us all nicely sliced 'n' diced.