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And They're Off! (The 2008 GOP handicapping begins)
The Weekly Standard ^ | January 31, 2005 | Duncan Currie

Posted on 01/27/2005 6:50:53 PM PST by RWR8189

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To: ncweaver

Santorum has to win in 2006 first, and he is being targetted hard by the Dems.


61 posted on 01/27/2005 7:18:49 PM PST by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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To: Sonny M

There have been several former senators to have become president. There have only been 2 SITTING senators to get elected, Harding in 1920 and Kennedy in 1960.


62 posted on 01/27/2005 7:18:49 PM PST by My GOP
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To: Cowboy Bob

Elizabeth I was born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Although she entertained many marriage proposals and flirted incessantly, she never married or had children. Elizabeth, the last of the Tudors, died at seventy years of age after a very successful forty-four year reign.


63 posted on 01/27/2005 7:18:57 PM PST by joem15 (Truth is a formidable Force)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Queen Elizabeth I didn't have an election to win. Instead, she had to survive opposition from many sources (most of who wanted to kill her), control the Houses of Parliament, and earn the trust of her people.

She did it in spades.

I have long been an admirer of her character, and I think Condi has the same characteristics.

64 posted on 01/27/2005 7:19:31 PM PST by Miss Marple
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To: shanscom

Martinez won't be on a 2008 ticket for the same reason Barrack Obama won't.


65 posted on 01/27/2005 7:19:54 PM PST by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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To: shanscom

I'm voting for the ticket no matter what. our party stands for nothing if it allows Hillary to walk into the oval office because we litmus test away our best candidates. I look at it this way, a "pro-choice" republican president really isn't going to do much to advance that agenda in office - what we will likely get is the status quo, whatever we had the day he took office. can we same the same about Hillary? no way. I'll take 4 or 8 years of the status quo over Hillary any day.


66 posted on 01/27/2005 7:20:42 PM PST by oceanview
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To: RWR8189

Tom Ridge - Former governor of Pennsylvania and first homeland security chief. Vietnam vet and family man. That's my bet. He's tall, dark and somewhat handsome. Has a recognizable name. A nice demeanor. Has the likeability factor. And chances are, in 4 years, terrorism will still be on the voters radar.


67 posted on 01/27/2005 7:21:48 PM PST by carmody
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To: RWR8189; All

Sanford if he is running..


68 posted on 01/27/2005 7:21:49 PM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: shanscom
Romney/Coleman ticket in 2008

Two guys from blue states and one a Mormon? Stay off the highways in the south on election day because the Christian Right will go fishing.

69 posted on 01/27/2005 7:22:17 PM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state.)
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To: stopem
Are these our only choices?

They better not be.

The Pubs will be in a reverse position from '04; shades of '96, they may end up with a slate of 8-10 so-so candidates and run an ABC campaign -- anybody but Clinton. That will get Hillary Clinton elected.
71 posted on 01/27/2005 7:22:22 PM PST by TomGuy (America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
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To: Miss Marple
I have long been an admirer of her character, and I think Condi has the same characteristics.

Why waste time on an election. Let's go and crown her Queen Condi I!

72 posted on 01/27/2005 7:22:31 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Fraud is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party)
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To: stopem

I would like to see Jeb run because he could WIN against anybody the Dems put up expecially if HITLERY is their nominee!


73 posted on 01/27/2005 7:23:45 PM PST by ncweaver
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To: Sonny M

yes, you are right about those states as being the new battlegrounds in 2008. but with Richardson on the ticket, the Dems are going to have a better chance in AZ, NM, NV and CO. if you take Kerry's 2004 electoral total, and add 3 out of 4 of those southwest states - the Dems win unless we can peel off something we didn't win in 2004.


74 posted on 01/27/2005 7:23:45 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Dog Gone

I guess I mean demonstrative and communicative....like in 1996......as much as I like Dole, he did not come across that well and Clinton was a much better communicator


75 posted on 01/27/2005 7:24:34 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: shanscom

Nothing to do with race at all.

Everything to do with both of them being freshman senators and the primary season starting in their second year on Capitol Hill.


76 posted on 01/27/2005 7:24:51 PM PST by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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To: carmody

He's a pro-abortion Catholic. He doesn't have a chinaman's chance. Plan B?


78 posted on 01/27/2005 7:25:11 PM PST by Juana la Loca
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To: RWR8189

I don't like any of them.

No Senators and No RINO's.


79 posted on 01/27/2005 7:25:23 PM PST by gjpino (FReeper AKA Guillermo)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Oh, get bent. I am not trying to coronate her. I am simply answering your question, and pointing out that unmarried women can be successful leaders.


80 posted on 01/27/2005 7:26:15 PM PST by Miss Marple
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