Gov. Mark Sanford goes crazy, disappears

[katmai]

[Phillip V]

Palin is a sharp and charismatic politician with a lot of potential. She just needed time to study, retool, and age.

Same with Hillary Clinton. She should spend these eight years changing into a kindly old grandma. People love to vote for grandmas. I strongly believe that the arrangement with Obama was that he will support her bid in 2016, especially since Biden (being too old) will not be a contender form the Dem nomination.

Check out the much loved Republican Governor of Connecticut, Jodi Rell:

[jimmy olsen]

I'm not going to even bother thinking about the next presidential election until after the midterms, what's the point?

[Phillip V]

I'm not going to even bother thinking about the next presidential election until after the midterms, what's the point?

To give you a life.

[Neil]

People love to vote for grandmas.

Not for President.  It's a man's job.

[Phillip V]

Not for President.  It's a man's job.

She also doubles as a man.

[Barrister]

People love to vote for grandmas.

Not for President.  It's a man's job.

Margaret Thatcher would tear you a new vagina in her prime.

Hell - she could probably do it even now.

[garbon]

Same with Hillary Clinton. She should spend these eight years changing into a kindly old grandma.

[sbr]

People love to vote for grandmas.

Not for President.  It's a man's job.

Margaret Thatcher would tear you a new vagina in her prime.

Hell - she could probably do it even now.

Even with one arm in a sling.

[Razgovory]

I disagree about Palin, I just don't see it.  Everyone gets caught up in hysteria late in the election cycle and is willing to overlook even major shortcomings in their politicians.  However, elections are over now, and Republican post-election insanity has to abate eventually.  Would Palin stand up to the scrutiny after having already started in the hole?  I very much doubt it.

Republican insanity has gone strong for over a decade.  Why should it abate now?  I think Rommny is their great white hope.  He just needs the Republican electorate to forget how two-faced he was.

[Admiral Yi]

Hmm. Quick, people tlel me how to feel about Pawlenty.

Feel good, real good!

Bland, managerial, technocratic.  He has made noise about the need for the GOP to be more inclusive.

[Caliga]

If we assume that the Republican candidate pool is Romney, Huck, Palin, Jindal, Crist, and Pawlenty: Romney and Pawlenty are the only two I can actually envision as President, though predictably they're the two who would likely have the most trouble in the GOP primaries.

Of course, this is all probably a total waste of time, since if in 2005 someone said "I see Barack Obama as the next President", everyone would have laughed.

Yes, Money, I do remember you started a speculative thread on Obama here several years before the 2008 election.

[Valmy]

Of course, this is all probably a total waste of time, since if in 2005 someone said "I see Barack Obama as the next President", everyone would have laughed.

Not true people were talking about it after his speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention.

[Valmy]

Palin is a sharp and charismatic politician with a lot of potential.

I must have missed her charisma with her annoying accent and mannerisms and idiotic speeches.

[Neil]

People love to vote for grandmas.

Not for President.  It's a man's job.

Margaret Thatcher would tear you a new vagina in her prime.

Hell - she could probably do it even now.

1.  She wasn't President.  She was Prime Minister.
2.  She wasn't running as a grandma.  She was running as the reincarnation of the Duke of Wellington.
3.  Come to think of it, Thatcher might be the only example of a successful female leader in the entire civilized world.