Election Thread 2008 MAKE SURE YOU VOTE

[stormy]

If Palin is the future of the republican party they are in for some rough years ahead

[YellerDog]

Shit, I really hope she is! It'll make the next few elections a lot less stressful.

[Frogacuda]

Major culture war in the party is already brewing. Like I said, it's a repeat of the Democrat/Dixiecrat split, but now it's their turn.

[YellerDog]

Meanwhile, what will become the future of the Republican base reshuffles: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/2290...middle-america

Or rather, the battle for what the base is going to be is starting. I really hope these assholes don't get a foothold.

[stormy]

The Newsweek articles make the Obama campaign machine sound really impressive. I'm wondering how portable this will be to future democratic candidates, and how long it will take the Republican machine to up the ante to match it. Probably not long, but maybe the democrats will get an advantage in a couple more elections because of it.

The problem with choosing Biden as VP, is that there is no clear successor to Obama in 2016 currently in the democratic party unless they want to remake Hillary. (Assuming Obama runs for re-election in 2012). There is still a long time to come up with one, but it's nice to have a viable candidate as the current VP and Biden isn't one. (yet?)

[SpoDaddy]

There is still a long time to come up with one, but it's nice to have a viable candidate as the current VP and Biden isn't one. (yet?)

Biden's 66 years old. He's not going to get any more viable.

[stormy]

That's what I'm saying dood

[SpoDaddy]

I think Sarah Palin's going to re-emerge as a serious candidate. She's only 44; sometimes young candidates need to find themselves as national figures. Look at Obama; he's a finely tuned national candidate now but in 2001 he was complaining that the constitution only gives us "negative liberties" and stammered to answer even the most basic of foreign policy questions. He was the stereotype effete liberal and he evolved into a centrist (hopefully). It's possible Palin can read some William F. Buckley and embrace intellectualism. That's the future of the Republican party: a return to the Buckley/Goldwater mold of intellectual conservatism.

Lots of young people are hungry for that, as evidenced by the amount of attention even horrific libertarians such as Ron Paul and Bob Barr receive. Yesterday I was reading a Reagan speech from 1964, in defense of Goldwater, in which he articulately describes the dangers of big government without ever falling back on cultural pandering. It gave me some hope for the future.

[TODE]

Coming out of that press conference, you heard it here first:

OBAMA: There will be no mutts like me in the White House

[Frogacuda]

The problem with choosing Biden as VP, is that there is no clear successor to Obama in 2016 currently in the democratic party unless they want to remake Hillary.

Richardson, maybe Kaine... I mean it's not obvious anyone is the chosen one right now, but there are plenty of options.