Et tu, Eddie?

[Stinky The Clown]

Ed Rendell: Obama Could Get Primary Challenge in 2012

There has been plenty of speculation about which Republicans will enter the race to challenge President Obama in the 2012 presidential elections.

But on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" yesterday, Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell threw a curveball into the discussion when he suggested that Mr. Obama could face a challenge from within his own party if he were to escalate U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

While the governor didn't point to any specific potential primary challengers, he implied that Mr. Obama would need to keep his word on beginning to withdraw troops from Afghanistan in July 2011 to avoid a challenge from the left.

" is really possible," Rendell told Pat Buchanan. "It depends on how far it deteriorates."

He added: "But if we start to begin to reduce our presence, I think that's probably enough to keep an anti-war candidate out of the race."

A recent CBS News poll showed growing discontent with the war in Afghanistan: Sixty-two percent of Americans believe things are going badly there, and 33 percent of Americans (including 42 percent of Democrats) say they are only willing to have large numbers of troops in Afghanistan for at most one more year.

It is unlikely that even a significant primary challenge to Mr. Obama would get much traction, but it could generate enormous press coverage and distract his reelection campaign at a time when it wants to be focused on the eventual general election fight.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20011923-503544.html

Ive said it before and I will say it again. I can't imagine this happening and if it did, I can't imagine who. Forget ideology or even the politics. Who has the cash (3/4 billion last time, remember?) or the organization?

Nope, I can't imagine it happening.

[spanone]

1. that's why joe likes ed.....fuck ed. he likes to be on teevee way too much.

[Ross K]

2. Waste not thy time upon fools

[Catherina]

3. La la la, I can't hear you

They will do everything they can to keep the wars going. I hope a sincere, trustworthy challenger with more than a speech or two runs in 2012.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

4. It depends on how sick people get of getting nowhere in Afghanistan

and seeing people die for a mission that no one seems to be able to state.

I do believe that a real liberal/progressive/non-centrist candidate could rise if things got bad enough. Things are getting pretty damn bad. I'm talking unemployment and the entire middle and lower classes cratering in conjunction with throwing money down a rathole fighting a war without end.

I'm amazed Rendell said it.