Two candidates enter! One candidate leaves!
Santorum in the White House?
Probably not the first time.
Perhaps it’s a generation thing but I cannot understand how a serious person in any field can give a speech wearing sunglasses. You’d think the whole purpose of a speech is communication - not just your points but much, much more - and here was Cain, with 40 years of experience, wearing shades like it’s no thang.
It might be no big deal to some but, for me, it tells you all you need to know about how some people view themselves in relation to their ‘audience’.
It’s a good thing this got cleared up, because until Nametag explained the situation, Jello was polling only a few points behind Romney.
Is it too late to get Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in the race?
The re-election effort won’t be that easy. I think it’ll be Romney, but it’ll be a LOT harder than it could/should be in 2012.
Of two minds on that. Don’t want it to be too easy, want Obama to have to reach out to us on the conservative wing of the extreme left. Want him to owe us something.
On the other hand, an absolute avalanche style landslide would be so fucking hilarious, it’s potentially fatal.
Mandate! Mandate!
I would love to see Obama reelected in a landslide. I don’t think that’s going to happen, though it’s more likely to happen with a not-Romney than with Romney.
And as a lame duck prez, he’s sure to make good on that, too. 
I think the days of Reaganesque landslides are over. Apparently, Obama is getting a jump on his get-out-the-vote machine in some local elections, and it’s working out pretty well. He should be one of the easiest presidents to defeat in decades, but the party that couldn’t shoot straight is going to make that much, much more difficult.
By the time the pundits read his name on the air he’ll have soared, peaked and crashed.
On a more serious note (for me, anyway), I doubt that we’ve seen/heard the last of Rick Perry. I’ve read a couple of commentaries to the effect that he never does well in debates — which is why he’s shied away from them in Texas — relying instead on money and advertising. Last I checked he was sitting on a metric buttload of cash, so he may be gearing up for a media blitz. If so, it remains to be seen whether there’s still time to salvage his candidacy.
This is how the State of the Union Address *should *be delivered.
See, and I’m of two minds on that. I’d love for the mainstream Left to reach out to the far Left, but it’s like any relationship or line of communication. It goes both ways.
I totally understand the animosity, though.
I’m not convinced we’ve seen the last of Cain in the “I’m not Romney” rotation. Things as so, um, unusual in this primary season that we might not see Iowa and New Hampshire winnow down the field much. Cain’s campaign is probably done (the Wash Post had what can only be described as a political obituary in today’s paper). The R team will probably go down to 2 or 3 candidates out of NH, and 1 or 2 out of SC as usual. But this year I don’t see guarantees. Newt’s campaign was dead, and now he’s this weeks front-runner for the not-Romney nomination. Go figure!
What are you talking about? Cain officially withdrew from the race.
So did Perot. Twice or so, in fact.
Technically, he suspended his campaign. That allows him to hang on to his contributions, and to continue to accept contributions, and to continue to spend contributions. And, as mentioned above, to start running again without even a hiccup should he so choose at a later date.
To the OP: I’d say Romney has a snowflake’s chance in hell of beating Obama.
To the fundraising issue: Keep in mind that even if a certain statement holds true for all previous presidential elections, we don’t really have that many data points to draw conclusions from. (Although I concur that Romney has a huge advantage because of all his money and campaign resources, and is likely to win the nomination.)
The more important aspect of that would be the Congressional and state-level coattail effects.
The part I bolded here is what worries me. I’m not one to count my chickens before they are hatched, but I will agree all the knucklehead behavior on the Republican side just keeps making Obama’s chances of reelection look better and better. And it really has been quite entertaining so far.
BUT, there are still a multitude of things that could happen between now and November. I find it unlikely any of the potential Republican nominees (including Romeny) will be able to derail Obama without something very, very bad happening to the economy (the euro tanks) or from a national security standpoint (a terrorist attack). I suppose Obama could get caught up in some huge scandel but that seems out of character.
I’m more comfortable holding off on the gloating until some time late on November 6.
I think what’s more likely to derail Obama is if the left stays home out of disgust with his perceived failures. I’ve heard from friends, and read on this board, that people who supported Obama in 2008 are just going to stay home in 2012. If that happens in sufficient numbers, the Republican clown (whichever one is nominated) will win.