New Republican presidential candidate

[fencesitter]

Why is there no one in the party running against Bush? Surely there must be some vestiges of the Republican party that haven't accepted the neocon dogma? Bush ran on a moderate platform as a "compassionate" conservative. If he espounded these policies in the last election he would have lost that large middle of the conservative vote and had been taken as seriously as Alan Keyes. So, where are the John McCains and Olympia Snows, Arlen Spectors and others? Why not challenge Bush in the primary?

[TSElliott]

1. Simple...

A party would never run an alternate candidate when they already have one in the White House for several reasons. First they do not want to confuse voters, second they are already getting tons of free advertisement with their current candidate and third it would be political suicide.

[Drifter]

4. And don't forget about cash ...

Currently, Democratic supports are splitting their cash between 9 candidates, while AWOL and Crash Cart are parading around (on our dime), putting all Republican cash into a single coffer.

Cheers
Drifter

[NewJeffCT]

2. hoping for

A big candidacy from Roy Moore...

[OldSoldier]

5. A Roy Moore campaign could be interesting, and good for us

We know he doesn't listen to people--only to his God. God told him to block the door to the Alabama Supreme Court with his 5300-pound Ten Commandments monument, for instance, and he didn't take it out even after the federal court told him to get rid of it.

Let's assume Moore decides Bush isn't "Christian" enough for him and wages internecine combat to get rid of him and install a no-shit Theocracy. Let's see...

a) Moore runs on the Republican ticket. Bush's base is probably more conservative than he is--I have a guy on a mailing list I run who keeps claiming Bush is too liberal. It would be those people who decide the Republican candidate, and my bet is that they will pick Moore, who will run on a campaign promise to send the 82nd Airborne to Capitol Hill if that's what it takes to get his judges approved. The other 99 percent of the electorate will look at Moore for about three seconds and pull the lever for anyone else. After they throw out all the votes for Donald Duck, our guy will come out on top.

b) The Republicans threaten Moore with mayhem if he runs as a Republican. Moore forms the Christian Law Party. Bush spends most of his money fighting the Christian Law Party since Bush's base will swing that way. Moore and Bush split the Bush vote; our guy sweeps up the remaining votes and becomes the 44th President.

c) Moore runs for President under the Christian Law Party. Unfortunately, he decides to take a small plane. In the aftermath of Moore's plane going straight into the ground at noon on a beautiul, sunny day, someone in the press dares to ask the question, "how come it is that when someone in Bush's inner cabal is threatened by an opposition candidate, they always seem to wind up dying in a small plane crash?" The resulting shitstorm puts Bush in front of a firing squad.

d) Bush calls the commander of the 7th Special Forces Group to have Moore "dealt with." The commander of the 7th Special Forces Group, who is a good American, calls the Fayetteville Observer, who calls the Associated Press...within 24 hours, someone in a blue uniform is handing Bush a bottle of Delousing Shampoo.

It's all good.

[ArkDem]

3. Clark is.

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