re: #71 Shiplord Kirel

We shall see. I don’t think it is too early in the context of this particular group of candidates. All of them are campaigning hard right now, and all are known quantities. A new candidate could emerge but without a drastic change in the base, in defiance of observed trends, a candidate with a good chance in the general cannot win the nomination.

Exactly in regard to this group of candidates.

Mitt has the potential to be the only grown-up in the room, but he won’t win by pissing off the base and telling them outright that Obama has nothing to hide, isn’t a socialist destorying the American Way Of Life or himself be realistic about things like Planned PArenthood and NPR. Mitt won’t be a grown up - in the campaign - he’ll be the quiet kid in the corner about all the shit thats flying in the corridor.

I don’t see anyone emerging past that pack of candidates - in the last cycle Obama came from no-where - up til the point he didn’t, he’d already headlined the previous Democratic convention.