blackhawk
Diamond Member
I agree that that's the trend (and I think you meant it's "not as long a rush"?), but I don't think that's necessarily a good thing. Haley's been a governor and Rubio a senator for less than two years (from the Obama reference I take it we're not counting state-level government). It's not much of a basis.
Of course Romney came to candidacy with aught but four years as a governor himself, which assuming Haley and Rubio stay where they are, is even less. During campaign season I was making the observation that all the wags who whined about Obama's alleged dearth of experience said nothing about Romney's even-less experience, so depending on whether it's my guy or your guy the value of experience seems somewhat flexible.
But I still think imagining candidates who have all of two years under their belts, as candidates for POTUS, is setting the bar rather low.
To be fair, Chris Christie has only a year more than Rubio/Haley, and I like him, but that's because he's shown me some tools, where Haley and Rubio have not.
If were adding state level government as you did with Obama Rubio served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000-2009 and Nikki Haley was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005-2010.
Of course, and you've got Christie's time as US Attorney too. But if you include that for them, then you have to include it for Obama, and the poster didn't want that comparison. So I did apples to apples.
Just to clean up an unfinished point on Scott Walker: the acrimony that earned him that recall election is an albatross around his neck and it's not going away, plus he was totally owned by that blogger who called him and posed as David Koch. That's what I mean by "baggage". Those are heavy bags. He's toast.
My point in regards to Obama, Rubio, and Haley no matter if you just go by Haley's time as Governor and Rubio's time as a U.S. Senator or if you add their time as a state rep they have roughly the same amount of experience as Obama had when running in 2008. As Walker goes despite the acrimony as you say earned him the recall he still won it and a larger margin than he was originally elected by while the stands he took could hurt him in union states it could also be a big boost to him in non union states and as of right now we have no idea who might or might no run from either party the Democrats will also have to pick a candidate in 2016 this is fun speculation but that's all it is right now.