CalvinBall wrote:how is sarah palin still relevant? my goodness. i loathe her.

I think she might be their nominee in 2012 if she wants it.

jerseyhoya wrote:For the most part it's a good monster. Without it we're not sweeping the House like whoa.

Bad for the country. We can't afford to have a Congress full of Bachmanns, or Jeremiah Wrights on the other end of the spectrum.

CalvinBall wrote:how is sarah palin still relevant? my goodness. i loathe her.

She's not as relevant as either she or the media thinks she is. She endorsed Ayotte in NH against the more conservative fella who is winning. O'Donnell was a pet candidate of Mark Levin, and then Rush and Hannity jumped on, then Palin parachuted in once a win seemed possible.

Squire wrote:Another guy who is pissed right now is Beau Biden. This was going to be his Senate seat but given the tide on the right he didn't think he could beat Castle and the party convinced County Executive Chris Coons to be the candidate. Coons could be in the U.S. Senate for 25 years.

SQUIRE

I was thinking about this the other day when it first occurred to me that this crazy chick might win. Kinda thinking this serves him right.

edit: I was kind of wanting Castle to win the seat. Liked him the same way I liked Chris Shays in CT, Sherry Boehlert in NY, etc. Obviously this is a dying breed, and I'm not sure the country understands how much we're going to miss them. All those guys, were they in their 30s or 40s today, would be Democrats.

JH are you concerned about long term demographic problems for republicans in Texas?

The Nightman Cometh wrote:JH are you concerned about long term demographic problems for republicans in Texas?

Not really, no. One thing I'm interested to study in grad school is parties, and something I've come to believe over the past few years as something along the lines of a permanent majority/realignment is impossible.

jerseyhoya wrote:

The Nightman Cometh wrote:JH are you concerned about long term demographic problems for republicans in Texas?

Not really, no. One thing I'm interested to study in grad school is parties, and something I've come to believe over the past few years as something along the lines of a permanent majority/realignment is impossible.

I initially misunderstood this, and thought "he's confused with undergrad. Nobody parties in grad school."

DC numbers taking forever come on

I hope when they appear I am surprised

kopphanatic wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:how is sarah palin still relevant? my goodness. i loathe her.

I think she might be their nominee in 2012 if she wants it.

for the sake of our country.... your team better turn the keys over to the clinton machine and run hillary cause anyone will beat obama in '12

You seriously think Palin would beat Obama?

I think the quality of the GOP nominee is going to matter very little if Recovery 2011 and 2012 look anything like the Recovery Summer

Romney is the only one I can see beating Obama right now, and he's going to have a lot of trouble getting out of the primary.

1. Flip-flopped on health care and his health care program in Mass was very similar to Obama's

2. He's a Mormon. Don't underestimate the anti-Mormon sentiment among many Evangelical voters who will be a large part of the electorate in the primaries.

Romney isn't going to win shit.

jerseyhoya wrote:Another reason to $#@! hate the state of Delaware

$#@! YOU

wouldn't it make more sense to focus on the, what, 3,000 people in the state of delaware who actually made it possible

you're mom would tell you not to make enemies unnecessarily

Maybe Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum will run

Unless the fringe birthers go nutso, the 2012 R nominee is going to be Bobby Jindal.

drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Another reason to $#@! hate the state of Delaware

$#@! YOU

wouldn't it make more sense to focus on the, what, 3,000 people in the state of delaware who actually made it possible

you're mom would tell you not to make enemies unnecessarily

seriously; i'm from delaware. i dig delaware. but why is delaware a good indicator of anything?

sorry if the answer is obvious; i'm pretty foreign to all this

drsmooth wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Another reason to $#@! hate the state of Delaware

$#@! YOU

wouldn't it make more sense to focus on the, what, 3,000 people in the state of delaware who actually made it possible

you're mom would tell you not to make enemies unnecessarily

Delaware and I have a long standing rivalry on account of their stupid toll plaza on 95. I already hate the state's existence. This is just more grist for the mill.

TenuredVulture wrote:Unless the fringe birthers go nutso, the 2012 R nominee is going to be Bobby Jindal.

I really doubt that.

jerseyhoya wrote:I think the quality of the GOP nominee is going to matter very little if Recovery 2011 and 2012 look anything like the Recovery Summer

don't bet your thesis on it