Jindal? Sanford? McCain? Paul? I wouldn’t take this list very seriously.
I concur ;-)
This guy was a candidate in the last two elections? I'm a political junky and never heard of him.
He knows as much as my mother in law...she's dead.
The list is incomplete and I think AMericans in general will have no stomach for untested candidates with little executive expeience after the ineptitude of this inexperienced administration. Personally I think a Hayley Barbour type will be the next POTUS.
Looks like an incomplete list.
Where’s Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, Bob McDonnell, John Thune, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMintt, etc etc etc?
Lots of good potential candidates out there.
I am betting on Romney getting the nomination if the Kenyan has no serious opposition from other Social Democrats. If he is the only one on that side the Democrats will flood the Republican primaries and, with the RNC, will choose the “Republican” candidate. Romney is surely counting on that effect.
•Sarah Palin +250
•Mitt Romney +400
•Bobby Jindal +500
•Mike Huckabee +500
•Tim Pawlenty +1000
•Mark Sanford +1200
•Charlie Crist +1200
•David Petraeus +1500
•Newt Gingrich +1500
•Jeb Bush +2000
•John McCain +2000
•Rudolph Giuliani +1500
•Ron Paul +2000
They left out 2 lines;
HUH?
WTF?
This is one of those articles that you actually can reduce your IQ just by reading it.
Even though I don't bet I joined BETUS several years ago to get the sports mags and....aahummm...calenders.
I strongly believe that the next GOP nominee for POTUS is not on this list. Unless the United States has a complete financial collapse that is worse than the Great Depression, none of these is electable if you by the current polls. Yes, is my opinion, and it is only an opinion; however, you do have to consider that the current polling might be correct.
I really thought that the IDIOT Bloomberg would be on the list...I misread that thank goodness.
Well, he ain’t no Eisenhower. .......................... Nope, “They” aren’t. I do miss IKE and Ronnie too.
Charlie Crist?
Mark Sanford?
Ron Paul?
John McLame?
Huckabee???
They’ve got to be kidding with this list. The 2nd time reading it was worse.
Palin will beat the crap out of OJerko. But she's not the only one that can.
Jay is a true moron!
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There has never been a time in modern politics when somebody came out of nowhere to win the GOP nomination, or some relative unknown won the nod, or some local Congressman was seriously in the running - ever.
We always have known the contenders a few years before the nomination was made. It has never been different, NEVER. Yet every single election cycle, we have to endure the “this election is SOOOOOOOOOOOOO different” blather, and the “local Congressman X is the best Conservative and can win the nomination” crapola. Every single election, we have to hear about some lost cause candidate, and how they're going to catch fire and shock the world and upset everybody and win the nomination because this time it's so different!
There is fantasy, and there is reality. Here's the reality:
The 2012 GOP nominee will be on of 2-4 people we already know, who have already gotten a Presidential ground game going of some sort - Internet, offices, PACs, or some other way. We will not be shocked by who is actually in the running, and nobody who is barely mentioned now will win.
One of the following will be our nominee: Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, or Mike Huckabee. There is an outside shot that Haley Barbour or Mitch Daniels make some noise if they run, but not a very big shot. Pawlenty, Thune, ANY Congressman, Crist, and the rest of the names floated have no chance in hell.
The most likely scenario is a choice between Palin and Romney, with Huckabee bleeding votes from Palin. Romney is still the favorite to win the nomination, and if you don't believe that you're in the same crowd that thought McCain had no shot last time around because every Freeper hated him and didn't know anyone who liked him.
That the truth, period. We will almost CERTAINLY be choosing between Mitt or Sarah, with an outside shot Huck can pull it off.
All the howling, dreaming, and swearing upon the chances of some one-percenter (Thune, Ryan, Keyes, etc.) or someone who isn't going to run (DeMint, Jindal, Christie, etc.) isn't going to make a hill of beans of difference.
We already know the 2-4 REAL choices we will have, period.