Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the current GOP would be “incapable of competing” against Hillary Clinton should she run in 2016.
Gingrich on NBC’s “Meet the Press” called Clinton a “very formidable” person who is married to “the most popular Democrat in the country.”
“If [the Republicans'] competitor in ’16 is going to be Hillary Clinton, supported by Bill Clinton and presumably, a still relatively popular President Barack Obama, trying to win that will be truly the Super Bowl. And the Republican Party today is incapable of competing at that level,” Gingrich said.
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7 comments:
doubt Hillary would run.
He right on this one.
I think there is an age factor to consider here. How old would she be?
She will turn 69 in 2016. Her mother is almost 100 so it will not be a problem. Reagan was 70 when he won.
Conservatives just don't give away enough to have an attractive candidate.We think of our childrens future.
She is no Bill Clinton!!! and she is still a Democrat UGG!!!!
Republicans would do well to step up to some modern ideas on issues and lean much more Libertarian. This would cause swing voters to side more on the right than the left. Where are the GenXer rising politicians? Did the Babyboomer's disenchant us? From The Atlantic Monthly: A Politics for Generation X -- "Surveys suggest that no more than a third of young adults identify with either political party, and only a quarter vote a straight party ticket. Xers are the group least likely to favor maintaining the current two-party system, and the most likely to favor candidates who are running as independents. Indeed, 44 percent of those aged eighteen to twenty-nine identify themselves as independents."
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"Our generation has an important voice, but no one seems to hear it." Whatever this voice may be, it does not fit comfortably within existing partisan camps."
There's a lot of us, and the boomers are hitting retirement more and more these days...
Any republicans listening?
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