Good look at GOP possibilities in 2012 from Ed Kilgore (Grain o'salt: He's a card-carrying Democrat.) in Salon.
Admit it, Republicans. This is a pretty weak field — and a perilous one. If anyone feels a sense of déjà vu, it’s because the field looks a lot like those of 1996 and 2008: some has-beens, some never-weres, some egomaniacs and some crazies. There may not even be a Bob Dole or a John McCain in this mix — the kind of candidate who can reassert adult control and at least lose gracefully in the general election.
So let Republicans enjoy their 2010 comeback. It was all but foreordained by the last two cycles, and by the very demographics that threaten the GOP in the long run. Allow them to celebrate their “fresh faces”; they'll have a lot of fine options for the vice-presidential nomination in 2012. But their 2012 prospects will go straight downhill starting on Nov. 3, 2010. That's when Republicans will have to start to deal with the consequences of their recent bout of self-indulgent destructiveness, when they'll begin choosing someone to take on Barack Obama not in press conferences or talking points or Tea Party protests, but in a presidential election.
As we typed somewhere, days or wks. ago, let the crazy bastards have the House next yr. Little imagination is required to foresee obstructional fuck-ups & greater loud-mouth idiocy if Republicans are in charge. W/ a bit more imagination we can see a stunning Republican defeat come 2012, & the final splintering of the right into absolute incoherence & paranoia, possibly even to the point that real Americans notice what a sorry collection they are. Can not wait. (May not happen.)
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