GOP 2012

[rolltideroll]

I just heard a commentator mention Gen. David Petreaus and Palin as a good ticket. Do you think that would be a viable ticket?

[steelmania75]

1. Obama would kick their asses. They're too stupid for such a high office.

[givemebackmycountry]

2. I think if Gen. David Petreaus is having discussions about this...

His ass needs to be FIRED tomorrow.
Because if he's slated as running with the Moose lady, he ain't running as a Dem.
I never did like that worm anyway.
Moveon.org was right all along.
He's a weasel.

[saltpoint]

3. The General is not glib enough to be a politician, IMO. And Palin isn't

sentient enough to do much of anything.

I think that one's a no-go.

[Ikonoklast]

4. That ticket is DOA.

Petreaus isn't a politician, and the professional pols in the Republic party would eat him alive in the primaries.

Ask Wesley Clark about the pros in the party apparatus.

[dysfunctional press]

5. ANY ticket with palin on it is FINE by me...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:...

[rolltideroll]

8. Palin

There is no doubt she is going to be on that ticket. The religious base loves her, and the GOP thinks women will vote for someone with the same reproductive system no matter what. It's that kind of respect for women that got them in this situation.

[tanyev]

6. I don't think Palin would ever again consent to being #2.

Nobody puts Baby in the number 2 slot!

[saltpoint]

7. A good scenario would be for Obama's administration to be so successful

that the GOP will just throw another Dole or McCain out there in full expectation that they're going to get clobbered.

Palin has the wit of a basement door, to steal a great line from Reynolds Price.

Huck wants the nom, but is strikingly pragmatic about politics, and likely won't enter the primaries if Obama looks unbeatable. He's folksier than Romney, but will stand down if Obama is strong.

Romney, on the other hand, has no center and no dignity, and he'll lunge for the nomination. I suspect he'll win it if Huckabee is out of the race and that Obama will go on to crush Willard in the general.

The Republican dark horse for 2012 might be Susan Collins.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Yeah, because Palin did such a great job *last* time.

There is a huge- HUGE- chasm between what the base of the Republican Party thinks is good messaging, and where the American People are at. In the minds of the GOP base, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin are plain folks, just "tellin' it like it is". To the rest of the Planet, they're incomprehensible, babbling morons spouting tired cliches and pure gibberish. To the GOP base, Rush Limbaugh is a brave warrior of truth- to the rest of us, he's a fat, obnoxious self-absorbed junkie. To the GOP base, Ann Coulter is riotously funny. The rest of us can't figure out what, exactly, is wrong with her (meth?) but she strikes us as seriously sick in some fundamental, horrible way.

The GOP base thinks, bizarrely enough, that recent electoral defeats have come because they just haven't pushed shit like Tax cuts, creationism in schools, outlawing abortion, etc. hard enough. The party that has gone off the deep end at the behest of their theocretin base now is operating under the delusion that they're just not extreme enough. I don't know anything about David Petreaus's political views, so I have no idea if he'd willingly jump aboard that clusterfuck. But this idea that Sarah Palin was some sort of net gain for the Republican Party when most of the country thought she was a mildly entertaining joke--- again, delusion.

Why not run "Joe The Plumber", too, while they're at it?

[sharp_stick]

10. Petreaus wouldn't do it

He's actually pretty bright and a decent General. He'll do what he's ordered to do and I don't think he has ambitions beyond the military.