Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Arizona may be the only state in the nation where mothers can no longer tell their children that some day they can grow up and be President of the United States.
— John McCain paraphrasing a joke by Morris K. Udall in May 2003
What is Paul Beddard, the Washington Whispers blogger at the conservative U.S. News & World Report smoking? 5 Conservatives to Watch for 2012 Presidential Race:
Key conservatives tell Whispers that there are five lawmakers poised to lead the conservative populists, perhaps all the way to the 2012 or 2016 presidential campaigns. One is in the Senate: Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the GOP whip.
The others Mr. Beddard lists are Ohio’s Rob Portman who is running for Senate, Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican Leader, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, the No. 3 House GOP leader; and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, a fiscal conservative.
Mr. Beddard does not disclose who his "key conservatives" sources are. Hint: it's the names on his list, self-promoters all.
And what makes Beddard think there will be a "Republican" Party in 2012 or 2016? The "conservative populists" are doing their best to tear it apart.
There have been persistent rumors in the blogosphere that Sen. John McCain still harbors dreams of running for president in 2012, which he has laughed off when confronted by questioners. Then again, it is a truism that it is easier to run for president than to quit running for president. And John McCain has been running for president his entire political career. Maybe he will reach for the brass ring that has eluded him one last time.
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I have been thinking about the uber Republican conservatives, including the tea baggers. Many of them express the feeling that what I think of as the “regular” Republicans are not extreme enough for their taste and a thought occurred to me. If this trend to “dis” Republicans they don’t think are far enough right (frankly, I think the issue is extreme enough) they just won’t support them in 2010 or beyond but will field their own candidates. I can see a situation where these extremists will be to the Republican party what Ralph Nader was to the Democratic party in 2000 – a spoiler who sucked off a large enough number of votes that Gore lost. I realize that leaves out the question of the Supreme Court and the Florida count. But without a large spoiler vote, the Florida count might not have occurred.
Just a thought.