Debate: Who Are Your Top Five Republican Choices for President 2012

Pundit Press ^ | 9/17/10 | Aurelius

[rightistight]

A nice, long debate this Friday afternoon

[Gadsden1st]

Palin! I love the sound of Democrat heads exploding in the morning.

[Tennessee Nana]

Mitt Romney -

Must you do this during lunch ???

[warpsmith]

Palin/Petraeus or Palin/DeMint. Very nice.

[ClearCase_guy]

Bush and Romney are absolute suicide for the GOP. Anyone with half a brain should see that.

[BigEdLB]

Jindal, Petraeus, Bolton, Newt, Christie

[devere]

Palin, De Mint, Barbour, Jindal, Thune

[Logic n' Reason]

I've asked my "un-named sources" within the ranks of the true blue RINOS and here are the top five!

McLoser
Rom-knee
Ging-rich
Huk-a-bee
and Jewel-ee-on-ee!

With the "Grand Architect" Tokyo Rove in command.

We're sure winners, ain't we??

/sarcasm off

[KoRn]

Run FRed run!!!!!

[Slyfox]

Let's do that Arizona-Alaska thing again...

Palin and Arpaio

[Diogenesis]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2591046/posts

[exit82]

#1 Palin

#2-#5 Palin.

Any questions?

[Caipirabob]

Mitt Romney + Highly competent manager, economic expert, previous runner-up, looks and acts presidential - Too good-looking by half, dull on the stump, hiding/laying low while waiting his turn, mostly absent from today's battle for the future of the nation... disappointing, where's some courage and sense of urgency here? The tipping-point is now, not two years too late...

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” - George Santayana

Only a damned fool or deathcare alcolyte would support mittcare romney and expect anything less than full blown socialism.

[Walts Ice Pick]

Palin in 2012!

Newty and Rudy have disqualified themselves on moral grounds. Neither is genuinely a conservative.

I don't think the country is ready yet to try another Bush.

Mitt will have problem convincing voters that he is a real Christian, he will not be able to explain his creation of socialist medicine in Massachusetts, he has been pro-abortion in the past and he is probably for gay marriage now.

Beck wants to be on TV more often than presidents are given air time.

Palin now has the experience and stature to win it all in 2012.

[csmusaret]

Mitch Daniels maybe..http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/barone/2008/12/09/mitch-daniels-for-president-in-2012.html

[BuffaloJack]

> Palin! I love the sound of Democrat heads exploding in the morning.

Then just imaging the exploding heads with a Palin/Paladino ticket.

[OldDeckHand]

Barbour, DeMint, Thune - probably in that order, and only because DeMint has no executive experience.

If I had a gun to my head, I could probably vote for Pawlenty.

Christie and McDonnell aren't going to have enough time in service for this next go-round, but they look great for 2016, should things not go well in 2012.

Jindal is probably on everyone's short list for VP because he's smart, he's been a successful governor and he's a minority. It's too bad he has ZERO charisma, which is why he's relegated to the No.2 spot.

[ansel12]

From the Weekly Standard:

Mitch Daniels Doubles Down on “Truce”
Mark Hemingway writes:

I got a call this morning from Indiana Governor and rumored presidential candidate Mitch Daniels. In my column yesterday on his remarks about a “truce” on social issues, I left the door open to the possibility that the Governor’s remarks may not have been a “rhetorical misstep.”

Of course, if you know anything about Mitch Daniels in this respect he’s the anti-Obama. He’s far more concerned about communication than rhetoric, he’s thoughtful and rarely speaks without consideration. Rhetorical missteps are exceedingly rare.

And indeed, Daniels called me to say that he’s dead serious about the need for the next president to declare a truce. “It wasn’t something I just blurted out,” he told me. “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a while.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mitch-daniels-doubles-down-truce

[TexasGunRunner]

1) Sarah Palin
2) Sarah Palin
3) Sarah Palin
4) Sarah Palin
5) Sarah Palin
n) Sarah Palin
n+1) Sarah Palin

...then, if all else fails, I’ll support Sarah Palin.

I really think highly of Bobby Jindal. Unfortunately, I think there will be incredible pressure on Palin to accept somebody with ‘gravitas’ and a conventional choice for VP.

I like DeMint, Inhofe, Bolton, Coburn, Allen West, Michelle Bachmann, etc., etc., but I really hope they don’t choose anybody from DC.

I pray they choose somebody cut from the same cloth and who is a true conservative.

Reagan was a great president. The 1980 VP choice of Bush over Jack Kemp (early Jack Kemp, not the ‘96 VP nominee Jack Kemp) was unfortunate. We needed somebody who really believed, and instead we ran Mr. Voodoo economics. That derailed the Reagan revolution once Reagan left office.

[ansel12]

Barbour has joined with Mitch Daniels in calling for us to drop social conservatism, he will attract a lot of the moderate crowd that can’t stomach Romney, or at least that don’t want to fight the Romney baggage at this stage.