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Well its been nearly a year since the 2012 presidential election, so I the spirit of American politics, it time for speculation about the 2016 presidential potentials.

So who do you think would make good candidates for the tickets of the different parties?
who do you think will likely end up the candidates?
what do you think of those potential candidates?


and if you think its too early to talk about 2016, tell that to the people who have been talking about it in the news for the last several months.

personally, I think it would be best if the Republicans nominated someone like Marco Rubio or Chris Christie and the Democrats nominated someone like Mark Warner; then you'd have candidates who are principled yet moderate enough to be able to work the other side to get things done.

Naa, everyone's corrupt except for Congressmen, Limbaugh, and Levin. Even Fox. So it's obviously going to be Hillary vs. Paul Ryan.

Does it matter?

On this forum you'll start seeing considerable talk about it in the year before the election and it will get crazy by the actual election year.
Most of it is hand wringing over ANY republican candidate and how the world will end if they get elected, regardless of their actual chance of being elected.

The GOP candidates will be mostly new to the hot seat of Presidential politics, and national politics. No way to say who will take to it and who won't. Might as well flip a coin. I'd bet Bush. He'll get the establishment and make fewer rookie mistakes.

Marco Rubio would be the guy I'd want if I was a Republican and wanted to win. He might stand a decent chance of attracting a larger share of the Hispanic/Latino vote.

Neither the republicans or the democrats will have anyone worthwhile to prop up.
Whoever the republican candidate will be I'm sure I'll find them only less repugnant than the democratic candidate.
Once again, voting for the lesser evil.

Hilary might not feel like going through all that mess, again.

I vaguely remember a time when elections didn't start three years before the vote. Ahhh, the good old days...

Jesse Ventura would make it entertaining.

http://jesseventura2016.com/



I'd also like to see Ron Jeremy enter the contest

Here are my 2 predictions.

#1: Rand Paul will win. He will go against the NSA, surveillance, drone strikes... all the "hot issues" for the new generation. Thousands of people will register as Republicans and vote for him to fight for a free Internet. He will tap into the hacktivist mindset and take the country by storm, portraying himself as a Julian Assange type, impressing the gullible masses. Even people who believe that Democracy is crap will vote for Rand Paul. He will be the "resistance vote" against the liberal establishment. The GOP will basically be taken over by young Libertarians and old Republicans who are desperate to keep their party relevant. This will create a sense of political balance and everybody will calm down.

#2. Hilary Clinton will win, and things will get very ugly. The counter-revolt against the liberal establishment will either:

A. Go straight up Golden Dawn
B. Elect someone like Putin in 2020

Maybe this sounds scary, but if the Republicans do not win this one, the pendulum is going to swing much further to the right than the United States has been in quite some time.

Resistance is resistance, and history repeats itself.

Hillary will win by a landslide, because the Republicans will self destruct as their candidates try to suck up to their party's lunatic fringe led by the likes of Ted Cruz, thus hemorrhaging voters. And as Limbaugh and Beck sit in the charred ruins of the GOP, they'll tell their listeners they had lost again because their party wasn't ideologically pure enough yet.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer