Huckabee and Newt are toast.
Ditto Charlie Crist/Scott Rothstein for Senate in FL.
I am for the most experienced person — Mitt Romney.
This country needs someone with his business background at this time.
I doubt that anybody who's not totally addicted to politics will have idea what you're referring to. Jindal's rebuttal is a complete non-factor.
I’d add Rick Santorum to your list.
Governor Rick Perry of Texas anyone?
I am with Palin. She is like my child or my mother when it comes to it. I trust my family and I trust her. Palin has immediacy, nor because she earned it but because she lived it, obliviously. It is one thing to know that you project an image but it is another to project an image out of indifference.
William Katz (Urgent Agenda) has mentioned Fred Thompson in this arena too.
http://urgentagenda.com/PERMALINKS%20IV/DEC%202009/03.THOMPSON.HTML
Palin, Romney, and Pence so far. Way too early.
I’m too busy actively opposing Obama and his cronies on Congress to think too much about 2012. The fight is 2010 and taking back Congress, then I will worry about 2012.
Let's let the MSM choose our candidate again, why don't we?
They gave us Bob Dull and John McKeating, after all.
What could be wrong with that?
(Conservatism wins every time it's tried. It only loses when you present a RINO and pretend they're conservative.)
Palin and Pawlenty.
Letting the MSM shrill direct opinion gets candidates like McCain.......losers.
Palin, from all appearances with her book tour etc is definitely speaking for the conservative base, the average voter, who make up 75% of all voters not influenced by big money and old style party politics.
Romney is another compromise. Appeals to the left wingers because of his “accomplishments” as a governor. Appeals to the big money corporate lobby that seeks to do business directly with government and bypasses the good of the people.
Huckabee could garner a sizable voting bloc due to his social conservative approach. He would be an alternative to a Pawlenty.
All the others.......crickets. Nothing there for America as a whole.
What the media did to Palin is the same thing they did to George H.W. Bush’s vice president......she’s been “Quayled”.
They kept throwing “tomato” and “Murphy Brown” at Quayle;they’ll keep bringing up Katie “Colon” Couric with Palin...
Yeah it will. Bush got a second term because the Democrats nominated an inept boob to run against him.
Conservatives have MANY potential leaders WITH character/unimpeachable background/appropriate associations/education/demonstrated experience-AND a love for this country and respect for its citizens... who may be considered.
What is more, “O’s” professional ineptitude and personal abrasiveness have all but paved the way for the next Conservative leader. ALL our leadership needs to do is to mimic the approach “O” had. Send a message, (in our case, WITH substance), send it unambiguously and send it consistently!!!!
If an inexperienced, personally objectionable, professionally dubious, and avowedly ANTI-AMERICAn racist and posturing demagogue can become President.... I am sure a Conservative following the Liberals' simple campaign formula can succeed.
Where do you get your information? ACORN has been under the microscope in Louisiana since before the ‘scandal’ broke.
COME ON, GUY!
I have seen lists like this before and virtually ALL
these supposed candidates that are listed accompanied
by thumbnail evaluations, are typically RINO choices, in other words, people who in one way or another, are as sure
losers as John McCain was. That will NOT happen again.
As usual you leave off some actual contenders, like Jim De Mint and Inhofe. Any potential contender we don’t yet know about (or that people like you don’t “recognize”) will have to do a whole lot in the next year or so to distinguish himself as THE candidate for the growing NON-RINO Majority.
It’s no secret that the ONLY one of these listed contenders to have done that SO FAR is Sarah Palin! Why is she always on the list, but given such short shrift??? Yeah, politics is a popularity contest, that’s how Obama got elected, but purely on image alone and nebulous abstract qualities like HOPE and CHANGE. At the outset of every campaign the talking heads cluck and agonize about ‘electability’, making the usual noises like “Well, I like THIS candidate, but is he or she “electable??”.
Well, I will say it again, if things keep moving in her favor, as they inevitably will, she will not only be the ONLY electable one, but WILL be elected. It’s either that scenario, or one just as likely, which is she will once again be a VEEP choice, but for someone who CAN be elected, but THAT person will NOT be a RINO.
Romney will never live down the MA health care debacle. His “experience” is disqualifying. He is the distilled essence of the GOP establishment and the establishment has failed comprehensively. Job one for a successful candidate is to establish him or herself as an insurgent. That role is way out of Romney's range. It is also out of Newt's range and Rudy's and that of everyone you mention (except Sarah Palin and possibly Bob McDonnell). We need to wrap our minds around the counter intuitive truth that inexperience is an essential attribute for the GOP’s next presidential candidate. Inexperience isn't sufficient, as Obama amply demonstrates, but it is necessary. The candidate can't be a conventional, career politician.
The 2010 election campaign will give us a whole new crop of names (John Kasich anyone?)to consider. Let's not waste any time on loser retreads like Romney, or bland milquetoasts like Pawlenty, or authoritarian progressives like Giulliani or geeky Ivy Leaguers like Jindal. In politics, like sport, the only really useful advice is to keep your eye on the ball.
We’d fare far better if we concentrated on the CONGRESSIONAL RACES coming up in 2010!
“People get the government they deserve” Joseph D’Maistre
Gang, we HAD a shot at cleaning these places out this last election and, to borrow a phrase from the klintoon White House, WE BLEW IT!!!
While I, like many of you, am saddened that McCain and Palin couldn’t keep the Marxist Obamessiah out of the White House, let’s try to keep things in some kind of rational perspective: ACORN elected a president and vice-president, NOT a monarch.
For years, I’ve been amazed at this idiotic quadrennial fascination with the beauty contest known as the (cue the trumpet fanfare) “PRESIDENTIAL RACE.” Our inattention and/or apparent desire for a king or a strong man dictatorship and/or the increasing numbers of un or ill-educated denizens of the U.S. who feel incapable of lifting themselves out of their own miserable lives has allowed our system to morph to the present quasi-monarchy from its original foundations as a representative REPUBLIC.
People, the most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put – AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER IN CONGRESS and the current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF THEY WANTED TO. Attila the Hun could occupy the White House and without the dough to hire the bureaucrats, buy the desks and computers, etc., etc. ad nauseum, Mr. Hun would be hamstrung. (See Article 1, Section 7 of the now largely moribund Constitution for details.)
But they DON’T — for a number of reasons: (And I cite the tax situation as but one example of the problem. Don’t get me started on the ENERGY and Algore’s gloBULL warming scam!)
1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?
2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it.
3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Gang can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. They’ve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long – and getting away with it – that, as Herman Cain’s book title declares – “They Think You’re STUPID.” And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, they’re right.
And THAT process starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do that house cleaning. Not marching on Washington (unless MILLIONS of pitchfork wielding folk crowd the Mall, the elites are amused by these things and the only folks who benefit from the finite patriot resources devoted to them are the airlines, hotels and restaurants in D.C.)...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS you have identified as NOT having the country’s interests at heart and doing it as many times as necessary to get it done. And then watching the NEW GUYS like a hawk to make certain THEY don’t go bad from imbibing too much of that power Kool-Aid so popular in Disneyland on The Potomac.
A good news in the viability of this approach is that the controlled so-called national mainstream media have far less impact on these widely separated congressional races making it easier to get some good guys elected.
The bad news is that I can speak from personal experience about how the national PARTIES will survey all the contested congressional races and if they DO find a candidate they do not or think they cannot control running on their side, they’ll offer a “consultant” from headquarters to come in and ASSIST the campaign. In at least 4 cases with which I am familiar, the Republican National Committee TORPEDOED those campaigns so a good guy who might be more inclined to cling to the Constitution before toeing the party line didn’t make it to D.C.
And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses, THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to GRADEGOV at
for your guy’s voting record on taxes, spending or your personal hot button issues. You might be in for an unpleasant surprise.
Then head on over to http://goooh.com and get active in some HOUSE CLEANING in the next election!
I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous because of their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America – the IDEA, not the place – most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.
As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that history and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.
I could go on for volumes but you get the idea.
One final thought: With the exception of the guys who CLEARLY pass muster at GRADEGOV, RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!!
Standing by for a record breaking flaming by the fanatics.
Unlike most freepers, I liked Romney last time around. But he is now a non starter due to Romneycare.
My picks are Palin, Pence, DeMint, McDonell, Thune. In that order.