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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't trust the Republicans! They're lulling us into a false sense of security!
Watch for Jeb to become the candidate following a brokered convention and the Republican money machine to go into high gear.
If we work hard at supporting Barack Obama, we can kick their collective asses, but if we become complacent, we could lose everything.
Keep working.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)I agree that we need to be on our toes for what ever they are planning come the convention.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)My money is on Chris Christie--if it turns out to be a brokered convention. I'm not convinced that will happen. My guess is that they will take this as a throw-away election as far as the Presidency goes, and concentrate on Congress and the governorships that will be up. They can do as much damage to the country if they control both houses of Congress, if not more, as they can occupying the White House.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)but I dont think Jeb or anyone else can pull it out for them, now that OWS (& Wisconsin) have shifted the debate onto the grounds of economic exploitation by the rich. The Salamander is only helping the cause along. Any R candidate will have to campaign on cutting the deficit, and that is no longer safe territory for them, since nobody but the Tea Party still sees it as the most pressing problem.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)Mitch Daniels is giving the response to the SOTU, if he doesn't blow chunks like Bobby did, he will be the new star.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Jindahl was a horse's ass last year, but Bachmann's rambling, eye-wandering rant was more revealing.
BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)The teabaggers have done everything in their power to be "anti-establishment", refusing to reference 2000 - 2008.
Perhaps he would be considered as a VP... (sortof a reverse of 2008 GOP ticket).
Kurmudgeon
(1,751 posts)People who set at home in 2010 did Obama and the Dems, as well as the country, no favors.