Republican Presidential Candidates

[cos]

I've been saying it all year, so before the number dwindles too much more, I'll post it: All of the Republican candidates are unelectable in the primary. Not a single one of them has a chance of winning the nomination. And yet, if they're the ones running, one of them will.

This was true back when Herman Cain, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Sarah Palin, were part of the set. Still true now. None of them can win it, but apparently one of them will anyway.

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[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I feel like it's 2007 all over again, only with the parties switched. Which is really weird if you know Republicans, they're known for being cohesive in a way Democrats just are not (that authoritarian streak and all). In a normal election cycle Romney would have long since won. (I'm pretty sure he's going to win this time, which makes me want to gnash my teeth - no one that nakedly power-hungry should be allowed in the White House, no matter what their party affiliation is).

Between how Republican primary voters are reacting to the Republican candidates (at least in polls) and the support of the Occupy protests, it seems like the general mood in the US re:politics is dissatisfaction with a side of anger.

[cos]

In the context of what I'm saying here, it's like the opposite of 2007, when we had a Democratic field with multiple credible candidates who I could easily see winning the nomination - though some of them seemed much less likely when considered in the context of a field that had some candidates much stronger than they were.

Romney cannot beat Obama in the general election unless Obama screws up in huge and surprising ways, though.