The Latest List of 2008 Presidential Candidates

http://www.politics1.com/p2008.htm ^

[Grendel9]

Presidency 2008

For the first time since 1928, both major parties will have open contests for the Presidential nomination without a sitting President or Vice President in the running. Politics1 presents a "first look" at those people being mentioned as possible, likely, speculative, or draft candidates for President in 2008.

[Grendel9]

Gunsburger lists all the candidates for ALL the parties. Bookmark this site as he updates frequently.

[Peach]

I'm disappointed Senator Cornyn doesn't seem to have presidential aspirations. He's my favorite.

And those third party candidates -- oh my. Susan Sarandon? Cynthia McKinney? LOL

[Always Right]

For the first time since 1928, both major parties will have open contests for the Presidential nomination without a sitting President or Vice President in the running.

Well the Democrat race is between Gore and Hillary. I think the leftwing of the Democrats will win the battle and get Gore.

[theworkersarefew]

Mike Pence for President 2008

www.pence08.com

[Vision]

Any list that has Condi in it has no credibility

[Vision]

[BlueStateDepression]

I will be voting for Tom Tancredo regardless of who's names are on the ballot. ;)

[tkathy]

The neocopperheads will destroy the country to take power.

[mission9]

For energy and substance Newt Gingrich is Alpha Dog. But substance has yet to translate to popularity. If Newt would "come to Jesus" then he would sew up the base, and the nomination. The caveat is that the "born again" moment must be honest, genuine and heartfelt, not instigated by a Carl Rove realpolitik. John McCain's attempt at such via the Liberty University commencement speech was sufficient to get Micheal Medved to listen, but I don't think he has yet convinced a critical mass of evangelists to abandon their principles for fear of losing the White House.

[OKIEDOC]

I just love it when politicians like John McCaniac, Hellary Klinton, Alfonso Gore and others suddenly get religion just before election time.

Our hypocritical politicians are selling us down the drain and these nuts think having a miraculous conversion to Christ will suddenly fool the conservative God fearing voter once again.

[HOTTIEBOY]

Man, this guy is waaaaayyy out there.


Michael Jesus Archangel (Michigan)

STATUS: ANNOUNCED CANDIDATE. This gadfly candidate -- who also uses the name "Saint Michael Jesus the Archangel" (and was formerly named Philip Jesse Silva until he legally adopted the Archangel moniker in 1996) -- appears rather delusional. "From the time I was a little boy I knew I was God and Michael the Archangel, but I didn't dare tell anyone, not even anyone in my family because I knew that the devil, Satan, was going to try to murder Me, and indeed he did try, four separate times," he explains. He also writes a lot about "My Big Brother, Jesus Christ, Whose parents, My spouse the Blessed Virgin Mary Michelle and her guardian spouse, Saint Joseph." Archangel Michael wrote he was a Vietnam War veteran who attempted suicide when, he explains, he suffered from depression and paranoia; and later became a "a volunteer Secret Agent for the Central Intelligence Agency without pay." A former janitor, he is a self-employed "writer" these days. As for politics, he describes himself as a "Reagan Republican" -- but adds he has also briefly drifted in and out of the Libertarian Party twice over the years. Michael the Archangel says he is a "radical conservative Republican" who recognizes "the fact that America is an official Theocracy." I'll just let him explain it in his own words: "The cultural/educational struggle going on between liberals and conservatives ... will decide whether the liberals are allowed to take this nation further and further down the road to socialist destruction or whether the conservatives will take our country back for God and the people. As a 2008 election Republican Presidential candidate, I hope all you Libertarians become Christians. Your support for the pro-choice position vis-a-vis abortion is just as destructive as the Communazis' position on that subject. The Democrats are complete Socialists, that is, Communazis." He also wants tougher enforcement of narcotics laws, a total ban on tobacco sales, opposes any gay rights laws, supports a total ban on abortion, etc. In a major setback for his campaign, Archangel was arrested on attempted murder and other felony charges in March 2006. "As a matter of fact, he is crazy. Anyone in their right mind can see that," said the Sheriff who arrested Archangel. You can find lots and lots of very long pages of writing like this -- all of which proclaim this candidate to be God -- on his official website: ArchangelMichael.info (you've got to scroll down very far on the homepage to find the link to his Presidential campaign and his autobiography).

[nonliberal]

Ping

[HOTTIEBOY]

Well the Democrat race is between Gore and Hillary.

According to this site Hillary is not a favorite and Gore is not running.

[ZGuy]

There ought to be an automatic punishment of some sort to Freepers who post articles with titles saying "List of. . .", or "Top Ten. . ." etc. and then don't post the list.

[Grendel9]

I think you misread.
Only the BOLD printed names
are announced candidacies.
The others are possible
candidates...ala those we
list here on Free Republic
off the tops of our heads.
This site is just a concise
listing of all those
we have mentioned and/or
omitted.

[slowhand520]

I saw Newt's Lincoln dinner speech the other night on C-Span and I was blown away. He was articulate and had excellent ideas. I think he is getting my vote (if he runs)

[Grendel9]

I don't buy into the
idea the Rove "instigated"
Bush's "Born Again" status.
If anyone had a hand in that,
it would have been Laura Bush.
She has commented more than
a few time on the change
in her husband...before/after
his "awakening."

[beeler]

It's impossible to be both a Christian and a Socialist, IMHO.

[Jack Black]

Here is the presumtive candidate list. This begs the question: Is the Republican Party a party of Conservatives? Even at the height of the so-called Rockefeller Republican era we had strong vibrant outspoken Conservatives like Reagan and Goldwater as party leaders.

Aside from the obvious: how many RINOS are on this list another amazing factor is how many of our wanna-be nominees are from hard Blue States: Giuliani, Condi, Pataki, Romney, Why? These states can't even deliver their electoral votes for a R yet presume to lead us? I certainly hope not. (Newt is essentially a DC creature now, add him to the tally.


US Senator George Allen (R-Virginia)
US Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas)
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee)
Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia)
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (R-New York)
US Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska)
Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas)
US Senator John McCain (R-Arizona)
Governor George Pataki (R-New York)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza "Condi" Rice (R-California)
Governor Mitt Romney (R-Massachusetts)
Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado)
Former Governor Tommy Thompson (R-Wisconsin)

[COEXERJ145]

The Democrat I worry the most about is former Virgina Governor Mark Warner.

He could pass himself off as a "old time Southern Democrat" which appeals to a lot of seniors. This is how my Rat Congress Critter keeps getting elected in a district that went over 70% for President Bush.