...booth the hardest? Like...is highly rated by the media propaganda machine but ends up getting nothing to less for voter support/EC vote? Never is heard of in the primary tho the candidate is listed? Is figured a shoe in but gets the boot instead! ONE of our candidates is going to get the above mentioned "treatment" for sure, I mean ya gotta know it! Which one is it? Go ahead punk, make my day!
2007-11-17 06:47:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
It's always interesting to see a party throw one of their own under the bus when an election looks impossible to win. The Dems did it with Dukakis and McGovern and the Reps did it with Dole & Goldwater. Though sometimes it backfires -- think of Jimmy Carter or the most famous of them all, Bill Clinton.
This election is the first open ticket in decades where the sitting president is ineligible and the sitting vice is a non-electable non-candidate. Normally one would think that it would be anybody's game but as anyone can see the Republican polls are way down due to voter dissatisfaction with the past several years. Republican members of Congress are working feverishly to form alliances with the Democratic power base out of abject fear of their jobs. Some are more public about it than others but the changes are obvious.
The Republican party has a very long and hard road ahead of them and barring a major screw-up by the Democratic party they probalby have little chance at winning in '08. Still, there's a lot of time until the election so it truly is anybody's game at the moment. Politics triggers some strange revelations if nothing else!
As the Republican party gets closer to their convention the back channel analysts will be watching closely and gauging their chances minute by minute. If they cannot rein in Bush and his hare-brained policies they may well throw in the towel and pick a sacrificial lamb to through under the bus.
Oddly enough, one individual stands out as the best choice for the Republican party. If the Dems suddenly go south he would be acceptable to many Dems and swing voters. And if the Reps continue their slide the conservative base and far right would just as soon see him take that ride under the bus. Of course, that individual is none other than Rudy Giuliani.
If the Dems do head south they'll want to nominate someone whom they can afford to sacrifice, similar to Dukakis or McGovern. (The odds of Obama and Clinton both screwing up their political careers is remote so it would have to be a party-wide ailment for them to throw in the towel.) The one who stands out there is Kucinich with Biden running second. Both decent guys but ones who the party could sacrifice if they had to, in order to preserve Clinton and Obama for future attempts at the Presidency.
Stay tuned folks, it's going to be an interesting ride. Whatever your political persuasion!
2007-11-17 08:45:37 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hillary. Outside of New York City and California she is a joke.
God bless the electoral college that protects us from these 2 gardens of anti-intellectualism
2007-11-17 06:50:22 · answer #2 · answered by idontknow 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I would like it to be Hillary, but I think it will be Rudy Giuliani. I don't know anyone outside NY, that likes him. Heck, from what I hear, he's not that well liked by NY'ers. I know of 2 local Hillary supporters (or at least they used to support her).
2007-11-17 06:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Rudy. If he wins the Rep nomination there is soooooo much to use against him.
I really hated how he treated his 2nd wife and kids. You want that cold-hearted bobo as Pres
2007-11-17 07:55:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
That's easy. Guiliani.
2007-11-17 06:51:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋