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Originally Posted by goofyballer
...but winning free real $$. There are too many interests in this country that would be devastated if someone with his ideals became president to allow him to win. Seriously, no chance.
Granted that he had truly no chance in 2008, when the GOP establishment laughed him off as a crazy old man and Fox News asked him questions like whether or not we should take our marching orders from Al Qaeda.
The tone has changed and he gets taken more seriously now. More importantly, this is a fairly weak field and the establishment doesn't really have a candidate that they're in love with. They ended up shrugging and rallying behind Romney last time as a last-ditch effort to avoid nominating McCain, but it was too late. And that's another point: the GOP establishment ultimately allowed a guy to be nominated just in the last election cycle who most of them don't like. He wasn't overly popular by any means (and honestly, around the time that he was getting hit hard politically for the failed McCain-Kennedy bill I would have declared him to have no chance either), but he had just enough support to slip away with the nomination win because nobody else was strong enough in the various Republican bases to stop him.
A perfect storm exists where RP can be nominated. I believe that. Naturally that still means it's unlikely, so I guess I might as well shut up about it now.
Last edited by LKJ; 08-08-2011 at 10:27 AM.
Reason: UNTIL HE WINS IN AMES ON SATURDAY OF COURSE.