> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 7:16 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Richardson declares! > > > Jim wrote: > > Both are (very) junior senators, neither has > > any real foreign policy experience and both are liberally minded on > > hot-button conservative issues. > > > > Look at the competition:
Just playing devil's advocate: > 1.) Mitt, not a chance in hell (maybe a bit soon to say that), I don't know - I just recently MA and I don't know much about him. ;^) He's conservative - very conservative - but he does have an opportunity to (somewhat) redefine herself. > 2.) Rudy, not much different on social issues than the Dems, Which is exactly why he may very well attract a lot of Democratic votes. Given even a small reason to switch Rudy's an attractive option. > 3.) McCain, no longer "middle of the road", widely seen as a sell-out. True - but still, I think a person who doesn't want to vote for the dem choice could pretty easily convince themselves to vote for McCain. I guess what I'm really worried about is that our past metrics may not be valid any longer (or at least much longer). People seem less and less loyal to parties any longer and are willing to throw everything else away to secure their position on a single issue (and all too often an issue which doesn't actually mean a damn thing in the larger scheme of things). > McCain will be the trajady: he wanted it so bad he abandoned the very > ground he created and owned only to see Obama move in and win. > That's one possible story anyway. > > As for the "foreign policy experience" Cheney proved that's a > meaningless metric in predicting future success. True - but in war time you know it will be an issue - an he won't be running against Bush/Cheney so their lack of experience won't enter into things (unless Obama wants to seem like he's holding a grudge). > My guess is that America will be looking for a new guy who's smart and > can make good fact driven decisions; the opposite of Bush, and that's > Obama. If he makes it past Hillary he wins. I hope so - as of right now he has my vote. The Bush voters are definitely upset about the war - but I don't think much else. A Republican that promises to "fix" that problem will probably be welcomed by the traditional base and a moderate republican may draw off a significant percentage of generally Democratic voters as well. I think that Obama has to present a strong, moderate platform. I can't see him (or anybody else really) pushing too liberal of an agenda and winning this time out. He has to show skittish voters that he's not going to rock the boat too much. If he does that I think he has a legitimate shot. We'll just have to see if the Republicans confuse things again with another red herring like gay marriage (and if voters can be fooled twice). Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225429 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
