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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:23 AM Feb 2012

The Nation: Sorry, Republicans, Your Savior Won't Come

http://www.thenation.com/blog/166384/sorry-republicans-your-savior-wont-come

Sorry, Republicans, Your Savior Won't Come
Ben Adler on February 20, 2012 - 12:51 AM ET


In Politico’s Playbook on Saturday Mike Allen reported that elite Republicans are still fantasizing about a superhero who will swoop in to free them from the limitations of their current crop of contenders {the all-capitalized phrases are Allen’s}:

A tippy-top Republican, unprompted, yesterday sketched the germ of a plan for a new candidate if Rick Santorum upsets Mitt Romney in the Michigan primary on Feb. 28. Our friend brought visual aids: chicken-scratched versions of prosaic documents that are circulating among GOP insiders like nuclear-code sheets…. The point: even after Feb. 28, it might be possible to assemble a Hail Mary candidacy that could garner enough delegates to force a CONTESTED convention….

AT THAT VERY MOMENT, ABC’S JONATHAN KARL was at the Capitol, having a conversation that resulted in this Richter-rattler: “A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. ‘If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,’ said the senator…. “Santorum? ‘He’d lose 35 states,’ the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich. It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who? ‘Jeb Bush.’?”


This is silly because no candidate exists who would be simultaneously more acceptable to the Republican base and independents than both Romney and Santorum. And if he did, he’d be a fool to sign on for this unpleasant adventure.

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And what would be their incentive for getting in the race? To have their histories pored over, to spend days raising money and rushing to put together a campaign only to risk embarrassment? Since it’s no longer possible for a new entrant to win the nomination outright, the reward would merely be winning enough delegates to force a fight at the convention. If these candidates couldn’t be persuaded to accept the hassles of a Republican primary when it was winnable, why would any of them do so now?

Republicans should come to grips with the fact that the nominee is going to be one of the remaining, unappealing candidates.
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The Nation: Sorry, Republicans, Your Savior Won't Come (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2012 OP
Even if Jesus DID show up at the convention... izquierdista Feb 2012 #1
Oh my your soooooooo right. southernyankeebelle Feb 2012 #2
the only possible "savior" for the Republicans is nevergiveup Feb 2012 #3
There likely IS a "Savior" for the republican party, but . . . . no_hypocrisy Feb 2012 #4
Jon Huntsman or Gary Johnson. nt AverageJoe90 Feb 2012 #10
Not So Fast Sis. DCKit Feb 2012 #5
Hahaha! And a brain is not mandatory! nt babylonsister Feb 2012 #6
Too late, you just described Rmoney. nm rhett o rick Feb 2012 #8
I know. First thing that came to mind when I read that article was "slab of meat...(R)-money". nt DCKit Feb 2012 #9
Disagree. There savior is Congress. SmellyFeet Feb 2012 #7
 

izquierdista

(11,689 posts)
1. Even if Jesus DID show up at the convention...
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 09:31 AM
Feb 2012

Repubs would tell the bearded, sandal wearing hippie to take his liberal clap-trap elsewhere and shut up while the money changers were talking.

no_hypocrisy

(45,774 posts)
4. There likely IS a "Savior" for the republican party, but . . . .
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:27 AM
Feb 2012

he or she is likely not a conservative but rather a fiscal and social moderate. Not a neocon. Someone who hasn't made headlines. Someone who does have ideas for potential of pulling this country forward. Someone whose principles can't be corrupted by lobbyists and corporations. Someone who doesn't cater to the religious right. Someone who doesn't return the calls from the Koch Brothers. Someone ready to propose some tax increases on the wealthy and business. Someone who tells Israel to calm down. Someone who tells Iran their sovereignty is secure as well as their oil fields; we won't attack them nor will our proxies. Someone who is independent of special interests.

How will this person raise money? S/he won't be able to get the kind of money that the republican candidates are raising but yet will be able to manage to campaign on a shoestring, without the TV commercials and other big budget items. Personal appearances and coverage by regular newspapers and news programs.

OTOH, I may have just described a demagogue with a hidden agenda rather than a democrat's wetdream of a reasonable republican.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
5. Not So Fast Sis.
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 10:32 AM
Feb 2012

I just read, right here on DU, that they're growing meat in the lab.

Once it's full-size, it's just a matter of loading it with insane talking points and cutting it loose on the campaign trail. The MSM will take care of the back-story.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
9. I know. First thing that came to mind when I read that article was "slab of meat...(R)-money". nt
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 01:56 PM
Feb 2012
 

SmellyFeet

(162 posts)
7. Disagree. There savior is Congress.
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 11:13 AM
Feb 2012

There are enough areas of this county where they can keep the Democratic majority down for a very long time.

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