Comments on: Broder Floats Bloomberg/Hagel 2008 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/26/broder-floats-bloomberghagel-2008/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:44:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: mw http://donklephant.com/2007/08/26/broder-floats-bloomberghagel-2008/#comment-381292 mw Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:04:48 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/26/broder-floats-bloomberghagel-2008/#comment-381292 Fielding, In the <a href="http://donklephant.com/2007/08/15/hagel-gonzales-to-resign-bush-shifting-iraq-strategy-before-year-end/" rel="nofollow">Panetta lecture I attended,</a> Hagel said he would make his decision in a few weeks. The same lecture is where he predicted that Gonzalez would resign and we broke that news here at Donklephant a couple weeks ago. He has to decide in September if he wants to make a run for the Republican nomination, and participate in early primaries like New Hampshire. Justin, An artifact of the state stampede to move primaries ever earlier, is that we are likely to have both major party nominees locked in by March. It is not too much of a reach to speculate that a significant part of the electorate will already be unhappy with their choices by April and be looking for an alternative. The Unity08 convention is planned for June,and is working to be on 50 ballots. So we have a unique situation where the major parties are creating motivation for an alternative early, and a mechanism for a credible alternative late. Bloomberg could be telling the truth about not running for President, and still be on the Unity08 ticket, if you just flip your headline to Hagel/Bloomberg. I have been dubious in my comments at Donklephant about the chance for a credible third party alternative to emerge - <i>but</i> it does appear that the stars are aligning to permit just that to happen to 2008. Maybe... Fielding,
In the Panetta lecture I attended, Hagel said he would make his decision in a few weeks. The same lecture is where he predicted that Gonzalez would resign and we broke that news here at Donklephant a couple weeks ago. He has to decide in September if he wants to make a run for the Republican nomination, and participate in early primaries like New Hampshire.

Justin,
An artifact of the state stampede to move primaries ever earlier, is that we are likely to have both major party nominees locked in by March.

It is not too much of a reach to speculate that a significant part of the electorate will already be unhappy with their choices by April and be looking for an alternative. The Unity08 convention is planned for June,and is working to be on 50 ballots. So we have a unique situation where the major parties are creating motivation for an alternative early, and a mechanism for a credible alternative late.

Bloomberg could be telling the truth about not running for President, and still be on the Unity08 ticket, if you just flip your headline to Hagel/Bloomberg.

I have been dubious in my comments at Donklephant about the chance for a credible third party alternative to emerge - but it does appear that the stars are aligning to permit just that to happen to 2008.

Maybe…

]]> By: Fielding J. Hurst http://donklephant.com/2007/08/26/broder-floats-bloomberghagel-2008/#comment-381285 Fielding J. Hurst Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:28:55 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/26/broder-floats-bloomberghagel-2008/#comment-381285 What is Hagel waiting on? What is Hagel waiting on?

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