Who will be the Republican candidate in 2016?

[panader0]

I don't believe that any of the current assortment of Repub contenders can win in 2012. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
(of course, we need to turn out the vote). Could any of the current candidates run again in 2016?
Is there an unknown up and comer who can win?
As I watch the media cover the entry (?) of Christie into the race, I just can't help but feel 'Is that all you got?'
Who will be the Democratic candidate?

[polichick]

1. There's Marco Rubio for 2016.

[elleng]

2. Jeb

Been waiting for him for a long time; depending on what happens to repug party. I suspect we'll watch them implode for 2012, and thereafter they may go 'rational,' so someone like Jeb, Huntsman, others?

[panader0]

6. Jeb--the idea sends a shiver down my spine.

I thought he might jump in this year. The BFEE lives on!

[teddy51]

8. Don't count it out, I have made several comments on him coming in at

the last minute when the Right realizes that they don't stand a chance in hell with their current field of idots's

[Warpy]

12. Not if he's watching Perry flame out

He'd have the double liabilities of being Stupid's baby brother and being another damned Texan.

The 2016 race is going to be the most fun to watch if "it's his turn" Mittens fares ill and we know he will because they're going to tie some nutcase around his neck rather than pair him with someone remotely sensible (but wrong) like Huntsman. There is going to be a massive battle for that party between the lunatics and the money boys and the party might not survive it except as a local party.

[customerserviceguy]

22. Nope, Jebbie's got the same problem

as most GOP voters are finding out about Rick Perry, he's 'soft' on immigration. He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of running anytime in the next couple of decades.

[elleng]

27. You may be right; depends on what happens to repug party.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Paul Ryan.

[RandySF]

4. Jeb

[teddy51]

5. I seriously think that one of the problems for the Repubs in 2012 is the TeaPartiers.

If they are still there in 2016 then I think that the Repubs will have difficulty mounting a candidate then as well. The TeaPartiers may turn out to be our greatest allies in that they are screwing with Repubs and dividing the vote.

[elleng]

11. Yes, for the time being; maybe into 2012 - hope so.

But they're doing all they can to tamper with the vote, by playing with State voting rules and voting machines; STILL trying to steal elections.
:thumbsdown:

[teddy51]

13. I agree, and that worries me the most. We are not going to get any semplence of

a fair election come Nov 2012 if the right has their way. We already know that 80% of the vote is counted on E-machines that do not provide any paper trail. These machine makers are Republican ie: ES&S and Diebold.

[frankcjames]

7. If he can lie his way out of his immigration ....

... positions, Perry will be the Republican candidate next year. And probably four years later.

[Mojambo]

9. Rubio. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. I don't know. But, the villagers should keep track of their idiots.

[spanone]

14. if they were smart, they wouldn't want to win....the rot ain't going away soon

????

[vi5]

15. It will be Romney and he stands the best chance to win...

The establishment isn't stupid. Remember this far out in the 2008 election cycle McCain was a has-been and was not even close to being considered a contender. But when the crazies started threatening to take over, common sense won out and what passed in those loony circles for the most "reasonable" man ended up with the nom. This time out, Romney is the one that most passes for reasonable (he's not).

[uppityperson]

23. Perry and Romney are my guesses. Unless something bad enough to surpass

everything that has happened happens.

[customerserviceguy]

24. There's only two ways that Romney is the 2016 nominee

The most obvious is if he wins the nomination in 2012, and then the general election.

The other is if he loses the nomination, and the economy goes into a further tailspin under Obama, or less likely, under Perry (who simply cannot outdebate Obama). Then, he can come back in either case with a, "See, I told you a real businessman was what it takes to get this country right again."

Four more years of economic malaise, and I think a majority of Americans will buy it.

[izquierdista]

16. The Great White Hope

Someone with the racial sensitivity of Theodore Bilbo; someone with the deficit cutting chops of Ronald Reagan; a conservative with the compassion of Torquemada; a patriot whose campaign will connect with regular Joes -- McCarthy and Goebbels; someone who will replace Obamacare with Mengelecare; someone who will cut unemployment with the slogan "arbeit macht frei".

[geek tragedy]

17. President Romney. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

18. Gov. Nikki Haley, she is the young Sarah Palin who isn't insane and hasn't quit her job

[lib2DaBone]

19. Gen David Patreus

We are in the second wave of the Great Depression.

1st Stock Market Crash

2nd Austereity programs

3rd Hitler Elected to the Third Reich

[StevieM]

20. Mike Pence, if he can win the 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election (eom)

[Angry Dragon]

21. Will the USA still exist in 2014??

[lindysalsagal]

25. Barack Obama: If he really keeps writing these nafta style trade agreements.

And I think he's gonna win.

[blkmusclmachine]

26. 2012: A game of "Who Loses More:"

Who'll be the biggest Loser?

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER......Jeb asshole III. :(

Democratic Candidate? I have no clue. I know who I would LIKE to have as a candidate...Alan Grayson, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie may be too old by then to be prez.