I have a buddy of mine who you would say is one of them “liberals.” I used to refer to him as the Colmes to my Hannity until he went apeshit on my one day, and while the Richard Cohen to my Joe Scarborough might be more accurate, it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. Bottom line he’s someone I disagree with regularly, and one of the few I enjoy talking to.
He showed me an article where someone in Vega$ placed odds on who the Republican nominee in 2012 will be, and wanted to know who I thought. My feeling is that before we look forward four years, we should remember that four years ago the two nominees were going to be Hillary and Rudy, a guy named George Allen was the second coming of Ronald Reagan, and Obama was the guy we were hunting in Afghanistan. I think it’s silly to talk aboot who is going to be the future leader…except of course when I’m looking for something to blog aboot, or holding a straw poll with the YRs.
But for the sake of argument (and having twenty minutes before the movie started), I said 2012 depends on how successful the Obama Administration turns out to be. That will determine if we run a “Ronald Reagan” (Mitt Romney), or a “Walter Mondale” (most likely Tim Pawlenty). I think I’d like to add a third, a “Barry Goldwater” role, which I can see going to South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.
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