Here's why the GOP is NOT doomed in 2016

[Bull Moose Base]

April Fool's. They're f***ed.

[eric82oslo]

lol
I agree.

[Emperor Charles V]

April Fool's. They're f***ed.

The Democrats are going to landslide in 2016! Hillary gonna get fifty state sweep!

April fool's. How'd you like that? How tolerant and open-minded of you to say a political party that you don't disagree with is f***ed, without giving any evidence except for the fact that you're a Democrat from California. Gavin Newsom, we know it's you.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Clever.

[Bull Moose Base]

April Fool's. They're f***ed.

The Democrats are going to landslide in 2016! Hillary gonna get fifty state sweep!

April fool's. How'd you like that?

Not very much. Seeing it thrown back at me, I understand how my post would hurt the feelings of people who felt differently. I am sorry.

EDIT: April Fool's again.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The age limit for this forum is 13, BullMoose, not 10.

[BaconBacon96]

Well I agree.

[Bull Moose Base]

The age limit for this forum is 13, BullMoose, not 10.

If you're saying the maturity of my posts suggests I am 10, 11 or 12 years old, I find that offensive. They exhibit the maturity level of someone who is at least 13.

[Emperor Charles V]

The age limit for this forum is 13, BullMoose, not 10.

If you're saying the maturity of my posts suggests I am 10, 11 or 12 years old, I find that offensive. They exhibit the maturity level of someone who is at least 13.

13 months, yes.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

The age limit for this forum is 13, BullMoose, not 10.

If you're saying the maturity of my posts suggests I am 10, 11 or 12 years old, I find that offensive. They exhibit the maturity level of someone who is at least 13.

Are you Jack's sock or something?

[Bull Moose Base]

I don't know who Jack is or, of course, who will win in 2016. But people are overestimating the chances of a 2010/inverse-2008 climate: the Republicans haven't had one in a presidential since the Cold War ended. Maybe the Cold War is back on though. Not sure it'd help them.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

April Fool's. They're f***ed.

Made me laugh, thank you.

[pbrower2a]

The Republicans will need a very strong politician -- a new Reagan --  to win the Presidency in 2016. As it is, they will have some very difficult Senate seats to defend and at most only one (Nevada, should Harry Reid choose not to run) to pick up.     

[TarHeelDem]

The level of assholery you guys are exhibiting is getting ridiculous. Are you going to keep doing this for the next 2.5 years?

More likely for the next ten, possibly for the next eighteen depending on who HRC's VP is.

[Tieteobserver]

Just a few words: in 1980, everything pointed for a Carter victory, for a Reagan failure.

Of course, things turned a bit different in November...

[Potatoe]

Just a few words: in 1980, everything pointed for a Carter victory, for a Reagan failure.

Of course, things turned a bit different in November...

Yeah, since everyone in the GOP is so top notch

I mean, making a comparison to 1980 is just ridiculous, a sh** ton of analogs don't make sense or don't have answers, who's 2016's Howard Baker or John Anderson?

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

"Permanent Republican Majority."

[Bull Moose Base]

"Permanent Republican Majority."

When Rove was pursuing that, the Republicans had lost the popular vote in 3 straight presidential elections. The Democrats have won the last 2, 5 of the last 6, and the GOP looks like even more of a mess than they did heading toward 2012.

[Person Man]

"Permanent Republican Majority."

When Rove was pursuing that, the Republicans had lost the popular vote in 3 straight presidential elections. The Democrats have won the last 2, 5 of the last 6, and the GOP looks like even more of a mess than they did heading toward 2012.

A similar narrative was true in the April of 2006 about the Democrats and their poor performance.  However, the Democrats don't have a pointless war or any major policy (that can be simply forgotten by the Republicans winning all the marbles I will eat my shoes if Obamacare can just be dealt with by being ignored through reconciliation or EO) to defend in 2014 and we probably won't be dealing with mass firings/recession in 2016. OTOH, conservatives do tend to have a disproportionate amount of pull. That all being said, our candidate field is Hillary and the seven dwarfs though among the creme of the Republican 2016 field is your typical mix of snobs, nuts and douchebags that filled the field in 2012. Then again, maybe this analysis is out of touch, but I don't think so. Today, I would say that there is a 50% chance of us having a Republican president in 2016. and if we lose the rest of congress, there is a 75% chance of having  a Republican president if only because, due to the recent lack of bipartisanship, any democrat elected will be a lame duck if they do not at least have the Senate. People are more than willing to vote for divided Government, but this would be kind of a new stretch to vote for a new President and also for a congress that has absolutely no intention of working with that President. H.W. Bush at least had a substantial cadre of Southern Democrats he could pull off to form a coalition.

[Adam Griffin]

"Permanent Republican Majority."

When Rove was pursuing that, the Republicans had lost the popular vote in 3 straight presidential elections. The Democrats have won the last 2, 5 of the last 6, and the GOP looks like even more of a mess than they did heading toward 2012.

A similar narrative was true in the April of 2006 about the Democrats and their poor performance. 

April 9, 2006: Dems lead, 52-42, among RVs in generic congressional poll

[Person Man]

"Permanent Republican Majority."

When Rove was pursuing that, the Republicans had lost the popular vote in 3 straight presidential elections. The Democrats have won the last 2, 5 of the last 6, and the GOP looks like even more of a mess than they did heading toward 2012.

A similar narrative was true in the April of 2006 about the Democrats and their poor performance. 

April 9, 2006: Dems lead, 52-42, among RVs in generic congressional poll

People were still talking about a permanent R majority, though with Ds only having power in big cities.