Republicans run Brown against brown President?

I bet it's NONE OF THE ABOVE!

Hell, even that is a steal. I'm tempted to even offer 20-1. You cannot win the nomination if you don't have the party behind you. There's no chance a "rogue" candidate like Paul gets anywhere close. He thinks too much.

Thats mean, and on the 6 yr anniversary of his "speech" YYYEEEAAAHHHH

Agreed, but I won't take that bet because the 10K I'd win won't be worth anything in 2016

This could be one of those bets that -EV for both sides.

How? If you escrow without interest, yes.

I could see someone emerging that doesn't already have a significant national presence like Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels who will leave his seat in 2012.

Palin, even if she ran, will not be the GOP nominee. of course, liberals are drooling at the prospect of running against her.

dark horses to watch out for: John Thune, Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels

Sorry, lack coffee.

you know how the saying goes:

"fool me once... shame on........ shame on you...... fool me you can't get fooled again"

I think Thune will get be the candidate in 2016.

Yeah, right. Like there's going to be an election in 2012.

Like anyone is going to take time out from hauling their wheelbarrows full of thousand dollar bills to the gun store to get shotgun shells to fight off the Zombie Apocolypse to vote.

If there is a zombie apocolypse my first priority will be looting, not fighting the zombies imo.

WELL IT SURE AS **** WONT BE VOTING AMIRITE

I have a list. Voting is on there

SMBS APOCOLYPSE PRIORITIES

1. Food/water
2. Weaponry
3.Hiding place
4. Co conspirators
5. Looting
6. "befriending" lost women
7.fighting the zombie masses
8. Electricity
....
49. Voting

It could be voting.

Conceded. Move 6 up to 4 IMO.

Saw a show on the History Channel, aka The Apocalypse Channel, which was a faux documentary/drama about some family trying to survive in a post apocalyptic world. I'm sure this forum's survivalists will give far better advice than I, but may I recommend antibiotics? The protagonist in the movie died because of an infected cut he couldn't cure. And the antibiotic black market was huge, so much so the otherwise resourceful protagonist dude, who had shot some looters and scrounged up food and killed some snakes to eat and managed to sterilize windshield wiper fluid or something to make it potable...dude couldn't manage to barter for antibiotics they were so rare.

If History Channel documentary writers are to be trusted, you'll want a lot of OTC medicines and antibiotics for the zombie apocalypse. Then you will be king.

This is an excellent point and duly noted. You would make a valuable co conspirator or a dangerous foe.

I love the History of the Future channel.

In all seriousness imo, putting the History Channel aside, I think if you have actual illicit drugs plus any antibiotics, pain killers, Tylenol, etc. for the zombie apocalypse, you will be King of Everything imo.

Think of how drug-addled Americans already are. You probably know dozens of people who are addicted to pain killers or whatever, and if you don't know that, just assume it.

Then take the survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse and put Americas drug-addicted masses back into a world of pre-modern distribution and communication and medicine.

**** gold, you can't smoke it and it won't make your headache go away. I want a basement bomb shelter full of oxycodone, penicillin, Aspirin and weed. That will make you the post-apocalyptic Bill Gates.

Now, I suppose it's fair to point out that as law-abiding citizens in a world where prohibitions and controls make owning of bunch of the things I just mentioned like weed and oxycodone very lucrative already. But when the zombies come the Feds will be gone. So I guess what I'm advising is that while all the dumb looters are off looting the food and water and TVs and ipods or whatever after the zombies arrive, prepare yourself now by storing food and water, so that when the zombies show up, you can make a beeline for the pharmacy.

Or a zombie, a zombie who offers pithy and insightful political analysis of the slathering half sentient shambling creatures voting and running in the zombie elections.

Come to think of it, we may already be in the zombie apocolypse.

thread has taken a turn for the best - prop bets, zombies, drugs. I like it.