There’s been a big deal made about how weak the GOP field is for president and how no one is particularly exciting people right now. Is that actually important at all?
I mean, how do you think the 2012 election is going to play out? “Wow! We sure love Obama! The Republican candidate better be exciting if he wants us to vote for him.” Obama is just sucking it up to an epic degree, and the 2012 elections are going to be referendum how horrible he is. You don’t need an exciting candidate, you just need some other guy. And if he’s boring, all the better. After the hope and change catastrophe, people are just going to want someone semi-competent and predictable. Right now, Obama is exciting people the way a car with its brakes cut excites people. So it doesn’t matter if the alternative is boring. What would people choose if given the choice between a Ferrari that’s on fire and careening out of control or a nice, safe, boring Toyota Camry?
You really just can’t underestimate how Obama’s suckiness is going to factor into the election. Any good campaign strategy is just going to remind people over and over just how horrible Obama has been, and then at the end point to the Republican candidate — doesn’t matter who he is — and say, “This guy is not Obama, so it’s pretty unlikely he’ll be that awful.” Frankly, I think one of the best candidates right now is Tim Pawlenty. I don’t anything about him other than that he’s really boring, and that’s what we need right now. Because what is exciting? Spending bills bigger than imagination is exciting. A takeover of health care no one wanted is exciting. Debt spiraling out of control is exciting. An economy teetering on the edge is exciting. I think people are really ready for boring now.
Let’s draft Paul Ryan.
His 6 Trillion dollar budget cut is really, really boring.
And after all the Federal layoffs that result along with the coming double- and triple-dip recessions, all those boring people will be really, really bored and have to get real boring private sector jobs. The whole process will be really, really boring.
*Yawn*
Oh, and Alan West.
You don’t need an exciting candidate, you just need some other guy. And if he’s boring, all the better.
I’m your guy. I’m not Obama, I’m really boring (my idea of fun is going for a bicycle ride in hopes that a solution to a programming problem occurs to me),
I have a birth certificate that says that I was born in the United States, I’m past thirty-five, and I’ve never been indicted.
Romney is both boring and unpredictable. Winning combination right there. I wonder why so many consider him a front runner when multiplechoicemitt.com is so easy to debunk.
If we must settle for some long term Republican spouting an of average of old conservative and neocon views, let’s Go T-paw!
T-Paw was my Governor so I’m pretty sure that if he’s elected I won’t have to pay my mortgage anymore because I’m from his state! He is my choice for zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
“…and the 2012 elections are going to be referendum how horrible he is.”
with the exception that all the people who voted for him once will have learned nothing at all in the intervening 4 years and will do so again.
I gotta disagree, they all get me excited.
It’s called “agita” and it happens when your kids won’t shut up or the GOP is figuring out which of the 4 people in the country worse than Obama to nominate.
Gus Hall in 2012. Because a dead commie is better than any of that crew.
Which ever Republican promises the following as his/her first act as president will get my vote….’I promise to fire Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano, so help me God.’
Look !!! He’s shiney and flashy and wimpy stupid !!! I’ll vote for him!!11!1 seems to be the battle cry. Learned intelligent wise strong went out with Reagan. For both partys.
I would still like to see at least one exciting Republican candidate. Isn’t Tom Selleck a conservative? Let’s draft him.
For those of you holding out for excitement, how about Alan West and Ann Coulter, the only conservative woman more hated than Sarah Palin? The liberals’ heads would ACTUALLY, LITERALLY EXPLODE. Good times.
“Vote Republican! We suck less.”
No, “exciting” doesn’t matter. What matters is nominating someone who would actually be competent. That doesn’t look so good for us right now.
I agree that ‘competent’ trumps ‘exciting’,
but a candidate has to attract voters and most of our
established candidates couldn’t draw buzzards to a gut wagon.
Better get someone who can call a liar a liar, and have the facts at their disposal durinhg a debate
or Obama will win.
Oh, competent. Then you can count me out.
It seems to me that Obama excited people from the middle to the far left, with tingly legs and all kind of other (disturbing) mental images, and look where that got us. Better we should have someone dull boring and COMPETENT is my thought.
You know someone who doesn’t have his own cable news show or live in the limelight or can’t make up his mind whether he’s on the left or the right. Maybe it’s time to let the Mama Grizzles have a turn. Worse comes to worse they might be able to potty train Congress. They could use a serious TIME OUT.
Growl.
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Frankly, having an adult in the White House would be a nice change.
If a guy wants the job of president, he probably is psychologically unfit for it. We should find some competent people who don’t want the job, and whoever draws the short straw gets the presidency.
That, Elle, is why I know William Sherman would have made for a stupendously awesome POTUS.
How about we vote for the first person to interrupt Obama with “Shut up Barry, grown ups are talking!”?
If you want boring, STAY AWAY from Alan West. He is on a HOOAH cafeinated role, locked and loaded. He wakes up my cat too much.
Yes, Sherman and Groucho Marx.
Out of the shadows steps… The Fred
I just woke up with my head on my keyboard. Now I have the keyboard imprinted on my forehead because I tried to type a certain candidates name and instantly fell asleep! I’m not falling for that one again!
The people who cast their votes for the current POTUS will do the same in 2012. They do not have a moral compass or the ability to think for themselves. The crurrent POTUS will invent a nice new bumper sticker slogan, the lemmings will read it and follow the car right off the cliff.
I keep telling myself that the country had to endure 4 years of Carter in order to get the Gipper but I still have a bad feeling about 2012.
It doesn’t matter who the nominee is. Go ahead and make the commercials using Obama’s own words about making energy prices sky rocket or any other ridiculous damn thing he has ever said and just insert the “Paid for by XXXXX Campaign” once we know who the nominee is. Obama has already written all of the campaign material any Republican would ever need.
You could run a cardboard cut-out of Mussolini against Obama and the cut-out would win… that is if people could figure out which one was which.
Let’s put it in perspective. Here is a portion of an editorial from the Miami News (now defunct) that was published in October 29, 1979.
“Jimmy, Teddy and Jerry are Democratic household names.
That is not yet true of most of their Republican rivals. The current list includes Ronald, Big John, Ben, Howard, George, Phil, Bob, Al, Little John, Larry and Harold.
Despite their relative obscurity, the Republican presidenatial hopefuls – Reagan, Connaly, Fernandez, Baker, Bush, Crane, Dole Haig, Anderson, Pressler and Stassen, – boast a common advantage: None is a Democrat.”
If we get another obscure candidate like Ronald Reagan, everything will be fine.