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December 19, 2007
Let there be choices
2008 could be a most interesting election year. We stand to have:
A Ron Paul campaign with somewhere in the neighborhood of $20M and a horde of devotees (and Bob Barr around somewhere)
A ticked-off Republican base, if somehow Rudy Giuliani is able to make it through the primaries (how could he mend fences?); alternatively, a major contingent unhappy with an unholy Mormon in the running, should Mitt Romney do well
A ticked-off Republican establishment, if Mike Huckabee's Christianist populism somehow prevails
Independent Michael Bloomberg, able to self-finance with the best of them (Bloomberg is making slow, but deliberate, moves) (UPDATE: with Chuck Hagel?)
Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, about whom the distant rumblings won't cease
Plus: if the GOP nominates Romney, Giuliani, or Huckabee; and if the Democrats pick, as surely they will, from among Clinton, Edwards, and Obama, then here's an alternative ticket I just thought of today. I don't know why. I wonder if Unity08 could recruit these guys?
McCain/Richardson
It may be the most out-there combo I've yet conceived. Eh? Yes? No?
Presidential Elections | By joe lance | 10:27 PM
Comments
How's this for out there?: if the Democrats don't come up with a clear candidate in the primaries (i.e. someone with a majority of delegates), the decision will be made in Denver. What's to stop Al Gore from thundering in and breaking the deadlock in a brokered convention?
Posted by: alice at December 19, 2007 11:24 PM