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Yeah, I've felt this way about most of the GOP field this year. "Yeah, wouldn't be cool if Gingrich (Santorum, Perry, Bachmann) won the GOP nomination? Obama would be a shoe-in!" "Yeah, but what if something awful, unforeseen, unpredicted happened, and they won instead?" 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There is no automatic candidate for the party not in the White House. Perry was hurt both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26170,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/the-colorado-gop-caucus.html","url_meta":{"origin":25781,"position":2},"title":"The Colorado GOP Caucus","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 7:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, interesting results; I don't think it will change the ultimate picture for long, but we'll see.Romney basically took the Denver\/Boulder area, the I70 corridor most of the way across the state, and the NW corner of Colorado (what's the Mormon population up there?). 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It's not surprising (though it's entertaining) that his resurgence in the primaries has pulled his former critics out to derail him\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/a-catholic-position-that-im-sure-both-gingrich-and-santorum-will-ignore.html","url_meta":{"origin":25781,"position":4},"title":"A Catholic position that I'm sure both Gingrich and Santorum will ignore","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-12 3:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A Catholic position that I'm sure both Gingrich and Santorum will ignoreWhile there are a variety of other obnoxious \"stereotypes\" and positions that I'd like to see the two Catholic candidates for presidency on the GOP side be chided for ... 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