Here we go it has already begun.

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Actually, Perry doesn't have a chance of beating Obama. As this ad illustrates, he will be painted as too extreme. Romney would have an excellent chance of becoming President, as he will attract the disillusioned left voters. The Republicans should be doing everything they can to nominate Romney.

Kate wrote: Actually, Perry doesn't have a chance of beating Obama. As this ad illustrates, he will be painted as too extreme. Romney would have an excellent chance of becoming President, as he will attract the disillusioned left voters. The Republicans should be doing everything they can to nominate Romney.

So far it seems to be more about ideology with the Republicans, not electability. They had success with that in the mid terms, so I believe they will go with the same strategy in the general election. I hope they do, the 2012 general election will attract more voters than the midterm, and I can't see many democrats, or even many independents taking a chance on someone as extreme as Perry. There is certainly a lot of people unhappy with Obama, just as there were with Bush before his second term, but Kerry was polarizing as is Perry. Extremes rarely win the Presidential election.

Kate wrote: Actually, Perry doesn't have a chance of beating Obama. As this ad illustrates, he will be painted as too extreme. Romney would have an excellent chance of becoming President, as he will attract the disillusioned left voters. The Republicans should be doing everything they can to nominate Romney.

In 2008, the GOP ran the moderate McCain against the uber-Lefty Obama and look what happened.

I think it will be a back and forth as the primaries begin. Perry will win Iowa, Romney will win New Hampshire, and back and forth for a long time, South Carolina, Florida, Super Tuesday, etc.

I never thought of Obama as a uber-lefty, which is why I supported Hillary.....Obama is a moderate, 20 years ago he would have been considered a conservative.

SS109 wrote:

Kate wrote: Actually, Perry doesn't have a chance of beating Obama. As this ad illustrates, he will be painted as too extreme. Romney would have an excellent chance of becoming President, as he will attract the disillusioned left voters. The Republicans should be doing everything they can to nominate Romney.

In 2008, the GOP ran the moderate McCain against the uber-Lefty Obama and look what happened.

I think it will be a back and forth as the primaries begin. Perry will win Iowa, Romney will win New Hampshire, and back and forth for a long time, South Carolina, Florida, Super Tuesday, etc.

Obama has proven to be not an "uber-lefty." McCain & Palin were just such a poor choice that anyone could have beaten them. I think if Romney had managed to get the nomination, he might have beaten Obama in 2008. Romney has an even better chance in 2012. It remains to be seen if the Republicans will shoot themselves in the foot again with another poor candidate.

I believe that if McCain had chosen a more stable running mate he would have beaten Obama like a rented mule.

I don't believe that.

Kate wrote: Obama has proven to be not an "uber-lefty." McCain & Palin were just such a poor choice that anyone could have beaten them. I think if Romney had managed to get the nomination, he might have beaten Obama in 2008. Romney has an even better chance in 2012. It remains to be seen if the Republicans will shoot themselves in the foot again with another poor candidate.

Kate, Odumbo is the "uber-Lefty." Just because the Global Commie King couldn't get everything through he wanted is due to America waking up and placing conservatives in office. What would it take to be uber-Lefty to you? Stalin?

archer wrote: I never thought of Obama as a uber-lefty, which is why I supported Hillary.....Obama is a moderate, 20 years ago he would have been considered a conservative.

Thanks for the laugh archer. I needed a good one today and that was a bellyshaker. Obama a moderate indeed. He sold that lie once already, I don't see him being able to sell it again in 2012 after his legislative agenda during his first term in office regardless of how hard he tries and regardless of how often the left tries to paint his opponent as "extreme" in the time between no and election day. Going to have to find a new playbook for 2012 archer, Rules for Radicals will no longer be an effective one to follow.