NY GOP Chairman Predicts De Blasio in 2016

[Mister Mets]

Came across this in IBT.

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There are three possibilities.
- Cox believes that De Blasio is someone who could run for President on Clinton's left.
- Cox is spreading a rumor to have fun with the notoriously paranoid Clintons, who De Blasio is associated with. A rift between the two means Clinton lacks a surrogate with the base. And if Clinton  associates more with De Blasio, it may hurt her with centrist voters.
- Cox has been talking out of his ass and has no strategy.

[Devils30]

It's Option 3

[Maistre]

lol, De Blasio is in the Clintons' back pocket. Not happening.

[MurrayBannerman]

Democrats, you have your Ben Carson.

[Paul Kemp]

Democrats, you have your Ben Carson.

How so?

[bedstuy]

Democrats, you have your Ben Carson.

How so?

Both married to black women. 

But, seriously, don't act like the two parties are mirror images of each other.  Just because you have a certain number of crazy people, doesn't mean we have an equal number.  Are there awful, unhinged, weridos in the Democratic Party?  Yes, but they are a minority, and we don't let them lead our party and we don't craft our policies to cater to crazies.

The Republican Party has become a far-right party that constantly caters to the lowest common denominator.  The Democratic Party has not become the mirror image of that.  The fact that De Blasio gets portrayed as a left-winger is 99% about the state of our politics and the media, and 1% to do with reality.  I hate this idea that, "oh well Ben Carson believes homosexuality is tantamount to bestiality, and De Blasio believes in trying to minimize pedestrian fatalities, BOTH EQUALLY CRAZY, HUH!"  It's just lazy, pathetic moderate hero thinking.

[Beet]

There is no way a mayor of NYC is getting elected president.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

I could see a brief boomlet for him if Warren bows out conclusively (as I believe she will - she's a policy wonk, not a true politician). The progressives will be seeking someone to embrace, and I don't think Sanders is a perfect fit.

I doubt he'll actually run, though. Too much to lose, relatively little chance of success. And if he was to somehow win the nomination, very little likely awaits him besides a painful loss to any Republican better than the likes of Carson, Cain, or Santorum.

[BaconBacon96]

He hasn't made any moves to indicate this is the case.

[Bull Moose Base]

I was about to say this is useful information but on second thought, we didn't need this to know the head of the NY GOP is a compulsive liar, did we?

[New_Conservative]

It's Option 3

[Vega]

Mayors tend not to do well in Presidential elections.

He's no Ben Carson (Mr. I'm going to run for President despite never being elected to office before).

[MurrayBannerman]

Mayors tend not to do well in Presidential elections.

He's no Ben Carson (Mr. I'm going to run for President despite never being elected to office before).

No, he's Ben Carson (Mr. horrible candidate that will barely crack 45% in the general).

[Vega]

Mayors tend not to do well in Presidential elections.

He's no Ben Carson (Mr. I'm going to run for President despite never being elected to office before).

No, he's Ben Carson (Mr. horrible candidate that will barely crack 45% in the general).

In that respect... perhaps.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I bet on option 2. This is Nixon's son-in-law we're talking about.

[CountryClassSF]

Run, Comrade De Blasio, Run!

[IceSpear]

It's Option 3

[Suburbia]

I don't think he can make it far.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

It's Option 3

[hopper]

There is no way a mayor of NYC is getting elected president.

Well it didn't work for Giuliani. Remember he was once a contender for the presidency in 2007. Giuliani skipped the first 2 campaign stops(The Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire) though.

[justfollowingtheelections]

De Blasio is a great guy but he isn't going to run for president, at least not yet.

[pbrower2a]

Even big-city mayors who have become Governors or Senators don't win primaries.

Does anyone question that George Voinovich would have been the most qualified person to be President of the United States?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Not happening, Hillary is odds on favorite Democratic Standard Barrier.

[hopper]

Mayors tend not to do well in Presidential elections.

He's no Ben Carson (Mr. I'm going to run for President despite never being elected to office before).

Well President Dwight Eisenhower never was in the US Congress,  nor was he a Governor of a state. He was however a "Chief Of Staff Of The Army" and "General Of The Army". He also held other positions in the Army during his military career.

[DS0816]

Democrats, you have your Ben Carson.

How so?

Both married to black women. 

But, seriously, don't act like the two parties are mirror images of each other.  Just because you have a certain number of crazy people, doesn't mean we have an equal number.  Are there awful, unhinged, weridos in the Democratic Party?  Yes, but they are a minority, and we don't let them lead our party and we don't craft our policies to cater to crazies.

The Republican Party has become a far-right party that constantly caters to the lowest common denominator.  The Democratic Party has not become the mirror image of that.  The fact that De Blasio gets portrayed as a left-winger is 99% about the state of our politics and the media, and 1% to do with reality.  I hate this idea that, "oh well Ben Carson believes homosexuality is tantamount to bestiality, and De Blasio believes in trying to minimize pedestrian fatalities, BOTH EQUALLY CRAZY, HUH!"  It's just lazy, pathetic moderate hero thinking.

Who?