How Can The Republicans Win The Presidency

[Maxiest]

Wait till Michelle runs in 2016...

[Ashisrael]

Wait till Michelle runs in 2016...

A scary thought but it would not suprise me in the least.  I think she loves being up there more than Obama.

Another possibility I see floated around is that there might be a push to amend the constitution and allow Obama to run for a third term.

[Big Dog]

How many times has Obama said anything that was true ?????
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Just once.

“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America”
-October 30, 2008

[NHSparky]

What do you think the Republicans need to do to win the Presidency next time?   The democrats I talk to say the republicans will never win another election.  They point to the changing demographics and say Whites are on the way out.

Douchey troll is douchey.

[JohnnyReb]

Tim Scott for president....since he's black and they count black votes twice that's 24% right off the bat. Then you add the liberal white guilt vote, the ultra conservative white vote, the Christian vote and pretty soon you're talking a landslide.

Wouldn't that be ironic, a conservative black president from the state that gets blamed for starting the Civil War.

[wasp69]

Another possibility I see floated around is that there might be a push to amend the constitution and allow Obama to run for a third term.

The same thing that was "floated" for bubba clinton.  Nothing new, wouldn't happen anyway.

[Ashisrael]

I'd like to speak to that.  For all the talk from the Democrats on race, did they ever once develop a "farm team" of credible minority candidates for national office?  I think that's what they may have been trying to do when they gave Obama the keynote in 2004, but he jumped ahead of the timetable and ran in 2008 with no discernible accomplishments.
It worked for them this time, but who do they have in the pipeline?  The only names I can think of are Julian Castro and Cory Booker, but they're just mayors.  No one is going from city hall to the White House.  They have no minority farm team.

Meanwhile, the GOP, thanks in large part to the supposedly racist tea party, has politicians like Rubio, Cruz, Susannah Martinez, Bobby Jindal, and Nikki Haley all making names for themselves.  The Republican Party is looking strong for the future, not so much with the democrats.

I think Alan Keyes would have made a great President.  Unfortunately he was too conservative for the media. 

Obama was touted as being a 'genius' by the media when the truth was his i.q. hovers around 106.  He was touted also because he was a 'president' of the Harvard Law Review but those who investigated how he obtained that position discovered it was because of Affirmative Action. 

In fact Obama was not even qualified academically or in any other legitimate way to even attend a ivy league college.

On the other hand Alan Keyes is a very gifted man with real intelligence and with a strong moral charcter and intimate knowledge of the constitution. 

As someone has said--A Nation gets the type of leadership it deserves not the kind it needs.

[Eupher]

I think Alan Keyes would have made a great President.  Unfortunately he was too conservative for the media. 

True. And he got into the race rather late and got a very slow start, along with his own departure from the Republican Party to form the new "Independent Party." Not particularly a very smooth on his part, but I guess he had to do what he had to do.

Obama was touted as being a 'genius' by the media when the truth was his i.q. hovers around 106.  He was touted also because he was a 'president' of the Harvard Law Review but those who investigated how he obtained that position discovered it was because of Affirmative Action. 

True again. The Obama Spin Machine very much includes the lapdog media.

In fact Obama was not even qualified academically or in any other legitimate way to even attend a ivy league college.

Damn, that's three swings and a hit each time. 

On the other hand Alan Keyes is a very gifted man with real intelligence and with a strong moral charcter and intimate knowledge of the constitution. 

Yup again. Nice job.

I really liked it when Dr. Keyes was arrested on the campus of Notre Dame when Barry came to bray about how wonderful he is. Keyes was marching in an anti-abortion protest when he was arrested. Shades of MLK, I thought at the time.

[Ashisrael]

No. There is an abject FAILURE on the part of national leadership of the Republican party to adhere to basic principles on which most of us agree - smaller government, less spending, lower taxes.

Big difference.

Most Conservatives would agree that all of that would be good. 

The Big Problem for the Republicans is that the majority of voters in America today will not vote for a candidate that simply espouses that.

[Ashisrael]

Sadly I'm only being slightly sarcastic.

Based on all the "soul searching" the GOP has been doing since Nov, I don't see the GOP moving to the right. I see them moving more and more left.

Exactly.

[J P Sousa]

Tim Scott for president....since he's black and they count black votes twice that's 24% right off the bat. Then you add the liberal white guilt vote, the ultra conservative white vote, the Christian vote and pretty soon you're talking a landslide.

Wouldn't that be ironic, a conservative black president from the state that gets blamed for starting the Civil War.

Judging from the recent past, the dems would get three women to say he molested, sexually harassed them ala Herman Cain. 
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[JohnnyReb]

Judging from the recent past, the dems would get three women to say he molested, sexually harassed them ala Herman Cain. 
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Then he switches parties and becomes one of those very rare, Zell Miller type southern conservative democrats......better up his score to several women and a couple of rapes a-la Bill Clinton style. 

[Eupher]

Most Conservatives would agree that all of that would be good. 

The Big Problem for the Republicans is that the majority of voters in America today will not vote for a candidate that simply espouses that.

Agreed. Which is one of the reasons why I think, in general, my country is heading straight into the shitter.

It takes a communicator, a person with a vision who can articulate that vision. We didn't have it in Romney. Never trust a man who goes to the barber for an oil change rather than a haircut. He also walked like he had a broomstick up his ass.

[Ashisrael]

Judging from the recent past, the dems would get three women to say he molested, sexually harassed them ala Herman Cain. 
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You may be joking but there is much truth in what you say.  The big mistake the republicans made was to let the media destroy their candidates one by one until the last man standing was romney--which is exactly what the media/democrats wanted.

[Ashisrael]

Agreed. Which is one of the reasons why I think, in general, my country is heading straight into the shitter.

It takes a communicator, a person with a vision who can articulate that vision. We didn't have it in Romney. Never trust a man who goes to the barber for an oil change rather than a haircut. He also walked like he had a broomstick up his ass.

The only possible light I see at the end of the tunnel is for things to get so bad that the military will conduct a coup d etat and put America under martial law.  Hopefully the dictatorship will be a enlightened one that will deport all traitors(meaning hollwood as a whole, liberals, democrats) to south america.

I jest- partially anyhow

[Big Dog]

The only possible light I see at the end of the tunnel is for things to get so bad that the military will conduct a coup d etat and put America under martial law.  Hopefully the dictatorship will be a enlightened one that will deport all traitors(meaning hollwood as a whole, liberals, democrats) to south america.

I jest- partially anyhow

I don't ****ing think so.

[Maxiest]

The only possible light I see at the end of the tunnel is for things to get so bad that the military will conduct a coup d etat and put America under martial law.  Hopefully the dictatorship will be a enlightened one that will deport all traitors(meaning hollwood as a whole, liberals, democrats) to south america.

I jest- partially anyhow

You should troll more.  Those are thoughts on the island not ours.

[Eupher]

The only possible light I see at the end of the tunnel is for things to get so bad that the military will conduct a coup d etat and put America under martial law.  Hopefully the dictatorship will be a enlightened one that will deport all traitors(meaning hollwood as a whole, liberals, democrats) to south america.

I jest- partially anyhow

Despite our problems, my country isn't a third world hellhole that changes its military junta like I change my underwear. I swore an oath to protect and defend my Constitution -- and speaking of "martial law" you might do well to study up on a little thing called posse comatitus.

You bring your Brit ass to my country and start talking that kind of smack, your ass will be sucking buttermilk -- I can guarantee that.

[wasp69]

The only possible light I see at the end of the tunnel is for things to get so bad that the military will conduct a coup d etat and put America under martial law.  Hopefully the dictatorship will be a enlightened one that will deport all traitors(meaning hollwood as a whole, liberals, democrats) to south america.

I jest- partially anyhow

Not even close to being funny.

[txradioguy]

The only possible light I see at the end of the tunnel is for things to get so bad that the military will conduct a coup d etat and put America under martial law.  Hopefully the dictatorship will be a enlightened one that will deport all traitors(meaning hollwood as a whole, liberals, democrats) to south america.

You've got too many active and retired military people in here to go talking about batshit crazy stuff like that.  We have rules...the UCMJ...and you positng that kinda crap makes us guilty by association with what you just said.

You should put more thought into what you type before you hit send next time.

I jest- partially anyhow

No you don't.  Not even partially.

[CG6468]

Today's Republicans could not win the presidency. There is not one of them with a backbone.

[txradioguy]

Today's Republicans could not win the presidency. There is not one of them with a backbone.

Palin...Rubio...Cruz...Ryan...there's plenty of people on the bench that can win...that have a message people would relate to.

[txradioguy]

Mods...because of the comments of the OP I suggest this either gets moved out of the general population or split into two threads.

IMHO someone is trolling for gotcha comments here to use against Republicans/Conservatives.

Lets not give them the pleasure.

[Dacabeti]

The Jackholes treason post not withstanding I'll answer the OP.

The GOP could win the Presidency again pretty simple. All they would have to do is quit moving to the center trying to get the Liberal and moderate vote and move back to the right. Stand up for Conservative Principles and policy. Quit trying to be all things to all people and be true to themselves. The current GOP has become Liberal lite and it just will not work. Rubio is proposing Obama's May 2011 Amnesty plan thinking it will help the GOP capture the Latino vote. There are some serious problems with that. The first being it will lose him the Conservative vote. Second the GOP will not get credit from Latino's; Obama and the DNC will. Third there is not way the Latinos will vote for the GOP because the GOP used to stand for responsibility and most illegals are low skill, low education freeloaders that want nothing to do with responsibility.

For the GOP to win another Presidency they need to move back right and stick to their convictions. They just compromised again today signing this dumbass unlimited debt ceiling increase.

[CG6468]

Palin...Rubio...Cruz...Ryan...there's plenty of people on the bench that can win...that have a message people would relate to.

I disagree. They will NOT have any messages to make people change their philosophies. The people who believe in them don't need to be changed.