2012 GOP Nomination

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Interesting (short) article: The GOP Field Is a Gift for Obama - Reason Magazine

excerpt:

"Don't for a second believe that a politician is destined to lose re-election simply because he has been an unmitigated disaster. That would be unfair to your senator or your congressman, and it certainly wouldn't be fair to countless two-term presidents. Any elected official can overcome self-induced failure with a little help.

And it doesn't hurt to pray: "Dear Lord, may the contemptible swine on the other side nominate someone even less palatable than I."

Republicans shouldn't fool themselves. Given the GOP's deeply flawed slate of primary candidates, our president can win a second term—which, without doubt, would be more imperial and consequential than the first. There is no savior. No Ronald Reagan. No Chris Christie. (Or is there? Nah. ... Maybe!)

But at some point, Republican voters will have to ask themselves, Do we want to win, or do we want to see the Environmental Protection Agency start fining businesses for dust bunnies? Economists talk about trade-offs—situations that involve losing one quality in return for gaining another quality elsewhere. Is there a trade-off worth making here?"
 
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golfballs03 said:
I'd like to see a replay. Anyone have a link at hand?
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I would think that if you google Christie Reagan Library you'd find it on Youtube. I know he keeps denying it,but that speech pumping American Exceptionalism just wasn't your run of the mill Governor at a rally speech.
 
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GAVol said:
I would think that if you google Christie Reagan Library you'd find it on Youtube. I know he keeps denying it,but that speech pumping American Exceptionalism just wasn't your run of the mill Governor at a rally speech.
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well apparently the experience has made him start to reconsider.

but who the hell knows. everyday there is a story that conflicts with the previous day
 
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Here is How I Will Control Federal Spending | Mitt Romney for President

In 2003, I became governor of a state hobbled by a deficit and shedding jobs as it came out of a recession. Working with a legislature under solid (85 percent!) Democratic control, I cut taxes 19 times, reformed and reorganized state government, and balanced the budget four years in a row. By the time I left office, Massachusetts employers were once again hiring, and the state had a rainy-day surplus of $2 billion.

The steps we must take to undo the damage inflicted by Barack Obama are as obvious as they are politically difficult. We must cut government spending, cap that spending at a sustainable level — 20 percent of GDP is the target I would shoot for — and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution. Cut, cap and balance are three words that are spoken far too rarely in Washington. But they embody my approach.

I will press for full repeal of Obamacare, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars. I will reduce the size of the federal workforce and align the wages and benefits of federal workers with the private sector. And I will set about the hard work of fundamentally restructuring the federal government.

Taxpayer money is today being used to underwrite a maze of rules, regulations and overlapping government agencies whose complexity defies the understanding even of those who inhabit the system. A first step in reform is acknowledging that the federal government cannot be everything to everyone.
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GAVol said:
I would think that if you google Christie Reagan Library you'd find it on Youtube. I know he keeps denying it,but that speech pumping American Exceptionalism just wasn't your run of the mill Governor at a rally speech.
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If he does get in, he will blow away Obama.

You put him in a debate with Obama and it would be ugly.

I could honestly see him taking almost every state Reagan style.
 
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why doesn't anybody take him at his word when he says he's not running?

he's still relatively young and still has a lot of work to do to repair the cesspool that is New Jersey. He should work on the smallball stuff for a few more years then throw his hat into the Presidential circus
 
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MG1968 said:
why doesn't anybody take him at his word when he says he's not running?
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Because the big money donors are begging him to run. These stories are going to persist until the first primary filing deadline which I think is sometime in mid-October.
 
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...and then there are stories like this.

BATON ROUGE — Gov. Chris Christie is seriously rethinking his months of denials and may launch a campaign for the White House after all, a source close to the governor said tonight.

In the last week, Christie has been swayed away from his earlier refusals to run by an aggressive draft effort from a cadre of Republicans and donors unhappy with the GOP field, said the source, who was not authorized to speak publicly and requested anonymity….

At a campaign rally here today for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Christie continued to criticize Obama’s leadership, but ignored several questions from reporters about whether he would seek the White House.

“If you’re looking for leadership in America you’re not going to find it in the Oval Office,” Christie said today in Baton Rouge.

The rally and a fundraiser afterward capped off a cross-country tour by the governor, where his Reagan Library speech Tuesday served to only stoke speculation that he might reverse course and seek the Republican nomination for president…

In addition, the governor’s wife, Mary Pat, no longer objects to a presidential run, according to an adviser to the governor.

The governor has famously said “my wife would kill me” as a reason not to run. However, a few months ago former first lady Barbara Bush called Mary Pat to assuage her concerns about life in the White House, the adviser said.
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"...During his appearance on "Fox News Sunday," Cain also rebutted accusations of his own insensitivity for accusing a majority of black Americans of being "brainwashed" to vote for the Democrats rather than consider the candidate or the message.
He said he thinks it's far more "insulting" to the black community for President Obama to appear before the Congressional Black Caucus and scold the audience because it is not supportive of his policies.

"His policies have failed the country, his policies have failed black people. That's more insensitive, that's more insulting to me, rather than me using the term 'brainwashed,'" Cain said. Cain said he used the term "brainwashed" after a series of incidents in which some black voters refused to read his literature on his 9-9-9 tax plan because he's a conservative and a Republican...."
 
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