Losing Republican Contenders Will Vanish into Obscurity

[SoDesuKa]

One good thing will come out of the Republican debates - the likelihood that all the contenders - except the winner - will disappear into obscurity when this is over. Most of them aren't even holding public office. Their importance comes from running for president - once that's gone, so are they.

It's do or die for the lot of them, unless they grab the brass ring. Newt's going nowhere; neither is Huntsman, Santorum or Cain. Bachmann and Paul at least have jobs. Rick Perry's prominence as a national figure will end the day the national convention picks a winner; and if Mitt Romney's not the nominee, he's history too.

The contenders prop each other up. No single individual stands out as particularly indifferent to ordinary Americans so long as the rest of them agree. In fact they even compete to line up behind cold-hearted Republican ideology. That will end on the day of the acceptance speech. The nominee will not have a "team" to fall back on.



GOP Losers Will Disappear Without a Trace

[safeinOhio]

1. You will still be able to find them

on FAUX SNEWS as "experts".

:silly:

[opihimoimoi]

2. + 1 ..... yup.

[markpkessinger]

3. You beat me to the punch! ;) n/t

[DenverDad]

9. + another

:hi:

[ThomWV]

4. Newt's been losing for the last decade and a half but, like Herpes, he remains with us.

[Chan790]

5. That's because until recently he was the philosophical and ideological pole of the GOP.

Or they were willing to let him think he was until he tried to act upon it.

He was their hero and champion once; old heroes don't go away, they become irrelevant, later annoying when they continue to throw their weight around and think they matter still. For example, see Joe Lieberman.

To that end, I rarely give a hell what "3rd-way" Bill Clinton thinks; his corporatist-bum friends sold us out, lost us elections, lost control of the party and now we're marching in the streets to end their crony capitalism.

[ThomWV]

7. Well put.

[HereSince1628]

6. The bad news is Scottie Walker has dreams of greatness...

And he is just one of a growing cadre of Koch-a-teers readying themselves for the national stage.

[Chan790]

8. I think they're all DOA on a larger stage.

Note that none of them is not facing massive public backlash and the threat of delegitimizing their own state GOP. Morons like Scott Walker and Rick Scott might be the worst thing that ever happened to the GOP in their states. Neither has any chance of reelection...in fact Walker faces a 50/50 of being recalled and Scott might finish his term under indictment or in (to quote Office Space) "Federal Pound Me In The Ass Prison"

The Koch political brand has become toxic...it might be time for Chuckie and Davie to contemplate a name change like Xe (formerly Blackwater).

I hear Asshole is available, they'd have that last name all to themselves. They could claim to be the richest Assholes in America.

[HereSince1628]

10. I certainly hope you are correct

But I think Chuck and Dave see themselves on the verge of have a government of, for, and by the Kochs.

[Capitalocracy]

11. They may fade into obscurity, but their ideology may not

And that's what I'm more concerned about. That's something the Republicans have over us... what they care about isn't the individuals, it's the movement, the ideology, and (most importantly) the people who pay for it. And those people won't be going away, they'll just hire new fanatical teahadists to follow in the footsteps of the cannon fodder on the docket today.

[Johonny]

12. Democrats disappear Republicans are worshiped forever

We still have Suckabee and Palin hanging around from the last go around. They and Romney strut around like they actually all ran for president and not McCain. Now McCain is interview for his opinion constantly, yet John Kerry can hardly crack any TV time. Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Gary Hart... Democrats once they are labeled losers fade into obscurity. Republicans are worshiped forever. Pat Robertson can still talk about his presidential campaign as if it was a soaring game changing triumph, heck Pat Buchanan is on that darn "Liberal" media channel.

[LiberalFighter]

13. I disagree with that.

Examples: Nixon, Reagan, Bush 41

Others that still came back:
Ron Paul, Romney, and I'm sure many more.