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As you may have guessed, the White House is just as excited about the 2016 as anyone. Can you blame them? Obama is clearly suffering from presidential fatigue that all second termers eventually feel; realizing that the latter four years are the same as the first, only you get less done. So we get to this:
The President knows that if Hilary runs, she's guaranteed to win. And since revealing to the American public the entirety of the circus side-show that the Republican party has become is one of his favorite past-times, it's not a surprise that he wants the whole troupe on display. However, even if Hilary doesn't run, the Republicans still have a full arsenal of fools to keep themselves from being taken seriously.
This leads to the question: Should the Republicans gracefully bow out of 2016? After the embarrassment of the last two elections, this seems the reasonable course of action.
The 2008 election gave us Sarah Palin. That she's still politically relevant in the party attests to what poor shape it is in. The election even took down the admirable John McCain, who went from respected war hero to angry and impotent grandpa shouting at the neighbor's dog. After this dismal performance, what was the best the party could do in 2012? Mitt Romney. Romney, who ran his campaign on the platform of not being the other guy. After a year of pandering to the Tea Party, he enters the general election promising to literally be the white Obama. Same policies, differ name and race. Now he's a pariah in his own party, mocked by the very people who said he was the best candidate they've ever seen little over a year earlier.
There's really no reason to expect anything different from 2016. With the Tea Party even crazier after the shutdown, you can expect candidates like Santorum and Bachman, to take center stage. You can't blame the media. They just want ratings, and Tea Party extremists make for good television. But only people suffering brain damage would vote for them. Reasonable candidates like Christie and Ryan will get sidelined. Their only hope is to put on a show for the yokels that might win them the primaries but cost them the general. So basically, if the Republicans run in 2016, they will cement themselves as the party of fools.
Finally, with the GOP as divided as it is now, the last thing they would even want is the presidency. Currently the only thing uniting all Republicans is an irrational hatred for Obama. Without that, they will go for each other's throats. The party will most certainly split and will have no one to blame but themselves. However, Hilary can certainly fill the Obama role being the thing Republicans fear more than blacks: women. But, honestly, the Republicans have enough hate to despise any Democratic candidate unlucky enough to take the office. So, Hilary or not, there is no good reason for Republicans to run a presidential candidate in 2016.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney encouraged the whole lot of potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates to jump in, avoiding a question about whether President Barack Obama would back his own vice president, Joe Biden, for the Democratic nomination.
"I think they all ought to run," Carney said of the Republicans on Friday. "That'd be awesome."
"I think they all ought to run," Carney said of the Republicans on Friday. "That'd be awesome."
The President knows that if Hilary runs, she's guaranteed to win. And since revealing to the American public the entirety of the circus side-show that the Republican party has become is one of his favorite past-times, it's not a surprise that he wants the whole troupe on display. However, even if Hilary doesn't run, the Republicans still have a full arsenal of fools to keep themselves from being taken seriously.
This leads to the question: Should the Republicans gracefully bow out of 2016? After the embarrassment of the last two elections, this seems the reasonable course of action.
The 2008 election gave us Sarah Palin. That she's still politically relevant in the party attests to what poor shape it is in. The election even took down the admirable John McCain, who went from respected war hero to angry and impotent grandpa shouting at the neighbor's dog. After this dismal performance, what was the best the party could do in 2012? Mitt Romney. Romney, who ran his campaign on the platform of not being the other guy. After a year of pandering to the Tea Party, he enters the general election promising to literally be the white Obama. Same policies, differ name and race. Now he's a pariah in his own party, mocked by the very people who said he was the best candidate they've ever seen little over a year earlier.
There's really no reason to expect anything different from 2016. With the Tea Party even crazier after the shutdown, you can expect candidates like Santorum and Bachman, to take center stage. You can't blame the media. They just want ratings, and Tea Party extremists make for good television. But only people suffering brain damage would vote for them. Reasonable candidates like Christie and Ryan will get sidelined. Their only hope is to put on a show for the yokels that might win them the primaries but cost them the general. So basically, if the Republicans run in 2016, they will cement themselves as the party of fools.
Finally, with the GOP as divided as it is now, the last thing they would even want is the presidency. Currently the only thing uniting all Republicans is an irrational hatred for Obama. Without that, they will go for each other's throats. The party will most certainly split and will have no one to blame but themselves. However, Hilary can certainly fill the Obama role being the thing Republicans fear more than blacks: women. But, honestly, the Republicans have enough hate to despise any Democratic candidate unlucky enough to take the office. So, Hilary or not, there is no good reason for Republicans to run a presidential candidate in 2016.
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