Posted on 12/17/2011 9:40:49 AM PST by Degaston
What seems to be the general opinion of Freepers on the various presidential candidates and who Freepers would like to see get the GOP presidential nomination? Gary Johnson? Jon Huntsman? Ron Paul? Bill Still? Barak Obama? Barry Soetro? Newt Gingrich? Rick Perry? Rick Santorum? Michelle Bachmann? Mitt Romney? someone else?
I am not going to Iowa, so my opinion don’t count.
Newt Gingrich. This election should be about who has the best ideas and who brings substance to their arguments and who has proven they can work across the aisle and get things done. That’s all this election should be about. Anyone who wants to bring up what someone did 20 years ago, or flip flopped on something from 15 years ago or who worked for Freddie or any other nonsensical argument that’s only there to mudsling, is completely useless to the process. What will fix things NOW is the question! Who is sticking to the issues without demeaning their opponents and offering solutions? I think the answer is pretty obvious. Newt Gingrich is the man. He won this last debate, like he’s won every other debate. So if he gets at least 3 debates with Obama, do you think he’s suddenly going to lose to Obama? It will be the very opposite. He will crush Obama. After 3 debates of at least 60 million people watching, the nation will finally get it and vote for Newt. People want jobs and the economy growing again. They don’t care if this guy made this much. It won’t help them get a job. Solutions is what we all should be looking for. The rest is just cheap politics that we have no time for. I’m not looking for someone I personally like, because Newt Gingrich will never be my personal friend. I do want the smartest guy in the room who I agree with the most. There really is no comparison. Newt’s depth of knowledge grounded in histroical references towers above his opposition. The Republican elite fear this! Well good - maybe we’re sick of the status quo. Maybe we’re sick of the “experts” telling us who to vote for. Maybe I don’t care who endorses who, because by following the endorser I’m devaluing my own opinion. Maybe we need someone willing to shake it up and really go toe-to-toe with the Democrats and the Media! We need the person who will make the most effective arguments and this will win over the American people not only in the election, but as Newt starts to govern, the people will help push through bills we all want because they will have the most effective argument reasoned in their head thanks to Newt.
I agree...newt/perry/santorum/bachmann. forget Paul.
I’d vote for Ross Perot. The man with the big ears who heard the fleece trade job sucking sound that no one else wants to hear.
Where were your Christmas gifts made?
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
I wish we COULD forget Paul....but he’s polling pretty strong in Iowa.
Punchers’ chance.
In that order.
After all the debates and watching the candidates I have come down to Newt as the best choice to beat Obama. Perry may yet rise to the top but so far he has not. Bachmann and Rick just can’t get any traction. Ron Paul is just a nutcase. I will not have Mitt shoved down my throat by the RINO establishment.
I'm guessing you posted this to start that all over should anyone pick Romney.
Same here; they're the only Conservatives in the bunch.
I’m with Ron. Don’t much care for any of them.....sigh.
“None of the Above”
Ron Paul
What I am doing now is deciding on what my priorities are for this election.
I think my priority is to fix the government. We have a lot of problems, fiscally, foreign policy, internally, corruption, everything is a mess.
The first cause of the broken government is that it is too big to function effectively. We need to decentralize and return the government to their constitutional boundaries.
The second and maybe most important cause of the broken government is the lack of morality in society, which is reflected in the lack of morality and honor in our public servants.
I think the candidate who fits my priorities most closely and has demonstrated the ability to govern is Rick Perry.
Now here are the seven candidates in the order in which I think they are likely to be the nominee (which is *not* the same thing as order of preference): Romney, Perry, Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann, Huntsman, and Paul.
The only one I could not possibly vote for is Ron-Paul Ahmanutjob. The man is nuts and naive and dangerous. I'd do a write-in or a third party before voting for RoPaul. Other than that, it's ABO, Anyone But Obama.
Thomas Jefferson? Although, I worry he may have to much baggage?
Right now, I prefer Newt. In the general election I will vote for any conserative that does not have a VP that is NOT a Natural Born Citizen as a running mate. That means anyone that does not pick Rubio or Jindel as VP. Neither one of them are NBC. One mistake (obama) does not give the Repubs a right to make another mistake.
I truly don’t have a candidate. I tried as hard as humanly possible to arrive at a choice, but I find them all incredibly uninspiring. Indeed, several of them fill me with abject revulsion. It’s a massive let-down from all the excitement and enthusiasm of last year’s Tea Party movement and the resulting mid-terms.
As such, I just have a ‘to-heck-with-it-all’ attitude, and fully plan a write-in vote of Sarah Palin.
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