So who's going to win in 2016?

[A Person]

The 2016 campaign starts NOW!

The Republicans will be spending the next 4 years blocking and campaigning ...

Their top priority? Make sure nothing good happens to America.

[Liv]

If they're smart they'll run Joel Osteen and move to the center.

The question is will the VP run in 2016. I'd love to see that race.

[The Vicar]

And the Democrats' top priority: don't actually try to call the Republicans' bluff by pushing things forward on a regular basis and forcing them to defend their decisions to the public, just sit back and do nothing except approve anything the Republicans put forward -- so you can claim things are getting done -- and blame the Republicans for your own dereliction of duty.

The 2016 election will be Hillary Clinton vs. Some Horrible Right-Wing Religious Old Straight White Guy. Horrible Right-Wing Religious Old Straight White Guy will win, despite Democrat functionaries' claims that we have to vote for Hillary to protect the Supreme Court (which Obama will carefully ensure does not move leftward at all over the next four years). The fact that Obama is going to make major cuts to Social Security and Medicare (it's coming, like it or not -- he not only kept the report of the catfood commission, he's the one who made sure it was loaded with anti-social-program hacks in the first place) will allow the Republicans to blame the Democrats for the results of right-wing policy.

[Liv]

Hillary? I doubt it... I think she's past her prime at this point.

Maybe Chelsea Clinton.

But in four years it's anyone's game. The whole world could look like a different place by then.

Maybe by then it will be legal to vote Obama in again.

[Liv]

Okay I retract my previous statement...

It's definitely going to be Chelsea if Biden doesn't run.

I do see a Biden/Clinton ticket here that would blow my mind.

[The Vicar]

Oh, god, no. No more Clintons. No more Bushes either. I would vote for any candidate who proposed a bipartisan agreement to keep both families away from any position in either of the major parties for the rest of the century.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

There's no real telling how the next 4 years will effect the races. I do NOT want to think of the next presidential election until late 2015 at the EARLIEST.

So there.

[A Person]

I do NOT want to think of the next presidential election until late 2015 at the EARLIEST.

That's all the GOP will be thinking of for the next 4 years. The battle between the Tea Party Purists and the moderate conservatives will be interesting to say the least.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

It may have some amusing moments as they bite each others' ankles and hold inquisitions to figure out who (besides themselves) to blame. I saw that The Donald was Tweeting for revolution, and got a glimpse of Karl Rove telling Fox that they were wrong to call Ohio for Obama. Kind of amusing.

I'm seeing that Boehner hasn't learned any lessons from his losses.. I hope his compatriots in the House decide to replace him as Speaker, seeing as they lost seats in an election where they should have gained at least a few. And of course, there's plenty of people who want to throw Christie under the bus for his "betrayal" during Sandy.

All of which leads me to think that they will have a smoking ruin of a party next year. This clown Priebus will be replaced, I guess. When that happens, I think they'll finally get a grip and start to find a more viable stable of people to start grooming for the 2016 run. Cause if they don't, they'll have a hard time in '14 and '16.

MAYBE there will be some people in the Tea Party that have the brain power to realize that something has gone terribly wrong internally... but as you might think, I expect any who voice such a thought would likely be drummed out for heresy.

Those are my guesses for the immediate future. What I'm MOST interested in seeing is what this Lame Duck Congress will do in the coming weeks with this "fiscal cliff" problem THEY CREATED. Once again, Boehner is promising to "work with" the administration -- meaning as usual that he'll talk and refuse to agree to anything until the deadline passes, then try to blame Obama for the failure to solve the problem.

That, of course, will cripple the recovery that was just starting to show signs of possible real life.

So yeah... really amusing stuff to look forward to.

[Liv]

I'll stand by my original stance that unless the Republican Party moves left (close to where Democrats are now) then they have 0 chance of ever being re-elected.

[A Person]

And here is the TeaParty SuperPac response to defeat and rejection

[Liv]

By 2016, conservatives will cease to exist.

Hormonal beef and corn syrup will do worse damage to the republican party than Obama ever will.

It's time to bring this ship home.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

And here is the TeaParty SuperPac response to defeat and rejection

Reminds me of Hitler, plotting his greatest victory by crushing the Russians as they closed the ring around Berlin.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

And here is the TeaParty SuperPac response to defeat and rejection

Just watched this video again, in detail. I noticed that there were only 2 close-up clips of non-white people other than Obama, and those lasted about a quarter second each. I think they're just starting to get a hint that they need to appeal to groups other than old white males. How they think to do that, I expect they'll take at LEAST a decade to figure out.

[Liv]

They'll start winning when they include gays, girls, and greens.

I'll call it my 3g hypothesis. Basically they need to hijack the current democrat platform and push them left.