As I said months ago, any R with half a brain will not run in 2012, because they have very little chance of winning, no matter who they put up...and you can put some of that blame right at the feet of the Tea Baggers.
To win the nomination, an R is going to have to suck up to a big bunch of the most ignorant, stupid, bigoted, and retarded political activists ever...the Tea Party.
They'll get so covered in pigshit and dogpiss due to all the fundamentally ridiculous things they'll have to say to get the Baggers on their train that when the...uh..."winner"...emerges, they will be the most flawed and laughable candidate for President from a national party in modern times.
Obama won't even have to campaign...there's the 40% that will vote for him no matter what, the 40% who will vote for anyone but him, no matter what...and then the other 20% will be treated to re-runs of all the unbelievably stupid things the R candiate will have to say during the primaries in order to win the nomination.
All the D's will have to is "roll the tape"...the R candidate will have already lost the national election on his/her way to securing the R nomination.
Book it.
After that occurs, if the R's don't get their heads out of their collective ass and start telling the fundamentalists and the TeaBaggers to get the fukk out of their party, it will be repeated in 2016, and again and again until they do so.
Fish on...
Todd
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