Charlie Cook: Fatal Flaws For 2008 Front-Runners?

National Journal ^ | November 23, 2005 | Charlie Cook

[jocon307]

Run Rudy Run!

[MaDeuce]

"Run Rudy Run!"

What?! Rudy? Up here in NH (and I'm a big time NH Primary voter), he would go down in flames in a primary. No city slicker pro-abortion, ANTI-2ND AMEMDMENT, liberal RINO will get past the Repub. primary ... and I dare say get past the South Carolina primary as well.
Rudy needs to say in NYC where he belongs and maybe run for Govenor ... New York is a lost cause anyway.

[George W. Bush]

I'm with the McCain-too-old faction.

Although it's not mentioned, the scariest thing about Hillary would be the cabinet she would pick. Just imagine Billy's cabinet, only much much worse. Secretaries of Defense or State? Yikes. The Dims got nobody to fill the jobs.

[6SJ7]

Haley Barbour would be a good pick and could win against McCain and Hilary. Barbour is a governor, from the South, personable, and the right age. McCain and Hillary have none of those qualities.

[jmaroneps37]

An Allen/Blackwell ticket ends the Whig Party once and for all. It plugs up both Virginia and Ohio and would bring 25% of Blacks. The down ticket effects would crush the evil donkey even in some of his strongest states.

[spintreebob]

Headline bias? McCain a "front runner"?

Every poll I've seen lists Rice the "front runner" with nobody else even close to her. When she is taken out of the field, Rudy is the "front runner". Take a look at the composite poll of a dozen conservative web sites. Those are the choices of the conservatives. George Allen is in second place.

McCain is so far down the polls I can't even remember what his ranking is. Is it 7th or 8th or what?

[hershey]

McCain the front runner? Who knew?

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[wolfcreek]

McCain is too old, too unreliable and too tortured.

[George W. Bush]

Every poll I've seen lists Rice the "front runner" with nobody else even close to her. When she is taken out of the field, Rudy is the "front runner".

Something between 1/3 and 1/2 of the Religious Right is incapable of abetting abortion by casting a vote for a pro-abortion candidate.

You'd better be prepared to lose them and hope that Dims will cross over to a liberal Republican with a nominee like Rice or Guiliani.

[therut]

I'll take McCain over Rudi any day. I will not vote for Rudi. Sorry Waaaaayyyyyy to liberal.

[Condor51]

***Run Rudy Run!***

Yep I agree.
Run Rudy, Run - right off Pier 37 into the East River. Oh Rudy, and please wear heavy shoes.

[EDINVA]

Barbour may be a good governor for MS, as my friends in MS indicate, but was not especially great as GOP Natl Chmn.

[Kenny Bunk]

Ed, I was right up in front roasting the ample Barbour posterior when he had the RNC job. But now, having come to know the rest of the RNC, I ain't so sure he actually did a bad job. In fact, giving the team he was on, he may have done a great job!

RNC Syndrome= A medical term: Patient may appear to be a normal man, but has no gonads, no heart, and even fewer grey cells. A psychological disorder rendering the RNC patient prone to snatch DEFEAT from the jaws of certain VICTORY. Patient often develops the vapours when confronted with a loudmouth Democrat. Often seeks refuge at country club bars.

[princess leah]

The MSM keeps pushing McCain down our political throats like the bug in Silence of the Lambs victims! I'm fed up with John McCain and I live in Arizona! I'd really like to see any of the following in the primaries:
J.D. Hayworth
Tom Delay
Haley Barbour
Jeff Sessions

who I'll accept for a candidate AFTER the primaries: all of the above, plus IF Rudy GUiliani becomes the candidate, then I'll vote for him over Hillary or any democrat...

[Semper Paratus]

It's not too late for McCain to patch things up with the right by standing up for the President and the troops by running down the 'rats in the Senate but I'm afraid he's been fatally seduced by the bright lights of the MSM.

[Kenny Bunk]

Well Princess, here at the Kenny Bunk Research Institute, we have subjected McCain to a battery of psychological tests a we have decided he is a self-aggrandizing jerk and a danger to every man, woman, child, and endangered species on the planet. So yeah, keep him in Arizona.

My ticket? Barbour/Blackwell.

[Reily]

yes its that '1/2 to 1/3 of the religious right' like dummie-crats seem to have never read then Constitution either ! The President doesn't rule by decree ! He(or she) can't require that abortions occur ! Also if a Rice or Guiliani got elected President they would still be appointing federal & supreme court judges from a pool of candidates proposed (read vetted) by the GOP. The VAST majority of those candidates would have limit to rollback abortion views. I have never understood the desire to let the 'perfect' be the enemy of 'good enough'. We got in this predicament incrementally and that is the only way we can successfully 'walk back the dog' ! If Rice or Guiliani are the Veep candidates then the 'religious rights' desire to sit out is even sillier ! If you are fervent in your antiabortion believes a Guilliani (or Rice) as President is at least going to allow you at the table to discuss your views. If its a Hillary or some other dummiecrat then you not even in the house, the yard on the block ! You are completely marginalized to the point of irrelevance !
Before some zealot condemns me, I am antiabortion !
BUT first you have to win or everything else is academic ! Of course one can whine & claim that you would be voting against your convictions. I say all you are doing is feeding your own ego,you would be basking in your own self-satified sense of moral superiority (Like liberals do !) BUT actually doing nothing concrete to advance your goals. (Again like many liberals do !) Sometimes one's convictions must take the long view and success doesn't have to occur in one's. lifetime. What is key is the direction that the cente-of-mass that the cultural takes and whether you are supporting candidates that keep the momentum going ! Self absorbed temper tantrums advance the enemies agenda not ours !

The Moonbat wing of the dummiecrats understand that key fact ! That they have to hold their nose and vote for someone who at least appears reasonable to the proletariat. (At least that is how they view the electorate! In their mind the whole election annoyance s can be dealt with after power is gained !)