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[AdminAssistant]

It depends on which Republican runs, and who he chooses as VP. If Perry's on the ticket, no dice. However, a Romney/Cain ticket could be tougher to beat.

[Gravekeeper]

Unfortunately this isn't necessarily a rock solid prediction. The chances of a Republican winning next year are probably higher than you think.

Not unless there is a major change and soon. Right now they are hell bent on nominating the most unelectable candidate they can think of. Because its the monster steering the process. There are no good Republican candidates right now. Only 1 or 2 adequate ones and a bunch of lunatics. But lunatics aside, even the adequate ones are not going to attract moderates as they're still too far right. They also, overall, have dick for charisma outside of their own little camps.

It depends on which Republican runs, and who he chooses as VP. If Perry's on the ticket, no dice. However, a Romney/Cain ticket could be tougher to beat.

I don't think the US is not going to vote in a Mormon, honestly, even without issues with his political stances. Cainon the other hand doesn't have much hope in any liberal area and is on the wrong side of issues for many moderate areas ( pro-life, pro-war, anti-gay, anti-muslim, free market health care, privatized Medicare, etc ).

They both have issues and inconvenient politic stances that not only won't fly in a lot of areas, but will actively galvanize opposition. So I'm still not seeing a tough challenger out of the GOP camp. Plus they're all sitting around just shoveling out ammo to use against them in a general election with every debate they do. >.>

Also, strawpolls are meaningless, as is most polling this early. -.-

[Crazedclerkthe2nd]

I get where you're coming from, but the GOP plan is not "Hey let's find a kickass candidate to nominate so everyone will vote for us!"

It's "Hey, let's make Obama out to be as evil and scary and unAmerican as possible so no one will vote for HIM!"

That's what they are going to do, they are going to say "Hey look, we've had this black President for the past two years and the economy hasn't gotten any better and he's ruined healthcare and raised our taxes and may, in fact, be muslim and it'd be a real bad idea to elect him again."

The GOP will keep promising tax cuts and jobs. That's all (uninformed) voters really want to hear or care about.

[Gravekeeper]

I get where you're coming from, but the GOP plan is not "Hey let's find a kickass candidate to nominate so everyone will vote for us!"

But this is, ultimately, what I think will doom them. It's also why polling at this point is kind of silly. Once it becomes GOP Candidate VS Obama in a direct comparison, it won't be pretty. Campaign Obama is vastly more dangerous than Compromising President Obama. They can try and lay everything at Obama's feet, and he can turn around and lay everything on Congress's feet ( Whose approval rating is hilariously low ).

Even putting that aside, challenging Obama without a candidate of equal charisma is an uphill battle. Charisma, like it or not, means more to the American people then anything else. McCain didn't have an ounce of charisma. Neither did Kerry. There's certainly no one in the current GOP nominees with a shred of it.

You can point fingers and say how bad the other guy is all you want, but if you can't come up with a better idea yourself. You won't get too far. -.-

[AdminAssistant]

I can't wait for the first debate between Generic Republican and Obama. He will literally eat them for breakfast. I mean, could you imagine an Obama/Perry debate? You could put that shit on Pay-Per-View.

[HYHYBT]

For some reason, I just can't see a picture of Rick Perry without seeing Chuck Woolery. Which means that while half of me is thinking "please don't let this idiot become president," the other half is thinking "it's way past time for a revival of Scrabble!