Posted on 11/10/2006 6:24:21 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
Welcome to GOP Bloggers' fifth 2008 Straw Poll. Our straw poll last month tallied over 15,000 votes.
Like our last poll, you get to pick which candidates you find acceptable and which ones you don't and you get to choose which candidate is your first choice for the GOP nomination in 2008.
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I'll admit I'm glad to see Hagel, Frist, Pataki at the bottom of the list! and the three I think (My opinion only) could actually beat Hillary.
First Choice: Gingrich 1944 25.7%
Giuliani 1860 24.6%
Romney 1528 20.2%
697 9.2%
Tancredo 451 6%
McCain 409 5.4%
Brownback 158 2.1%
Hagel 154 2%
Hunter 133 1.8%
Huckabee 115 1.5%
Frist 79 1%
Pataki 34 0.4%
Newt would eat Hillary and swallow her for desert.... he is brilliant and a great and calm debator.. her shrillness compared to his Irish twinkle while cutting her to shreds would be worth the price of admission.
Exactly and she is NOT going to want it front and center. they go after Newt and she gets lambasted..
IMO Newt has a lot of Irish charm and his great mind makes him very charismatic to me..
A liberal who is at the bottom of the desirable list... you must really want Hillary....
Well, if this straw poll is any example..... he could win.
Ask Randy Graf about that concept.
We, the conservatives need to rally around a leader, and as of now that should be Newt.
I agree and well stated.
No kidding. I swear how can Rush talk about the sanctity of marriage. He is such a joke. Talk about people staying home. Hillary would have 50 states in the bag.
What and have Fred give up a multi-million dollar salary. I bet he would if things were different in Washington. Talk about ALWAYS having to campaign and raise money. I could not imagine having to do that all the time.
No way! It's all about political perceptions and not legal hairsplitting. As far as voting social conservatives are concerned, Newt's behavior was just as bad as Clinton's whether he lied or not, and he had to leave office because he had in fact been exposed as a hypocrite. That ugly fact will NOT go away, and the MSM would hang it around his shoulders real fast should he attempt a run for the presidency.
Well, if some of the folks here are so hell bent on going down the "Newt" road in 2008, then the Republican Party will suffer another disastrous defeat. That's all there is too it. We should learn from our mistakes and not repeat them out of sheer denial...
Nancee
I love Newt, but I think Romney is the kind of leader we're going to need in '08. Maybe a Romney/Gingrinch ticket?
What we need are powerful communicators. Gingrinch is a great one but too easily cast as far-right and yesterday's news. Someone like Romney or Guiliani could bring in the great masses of 'moderates'.
Well, what mistakes are you referring too?
Well, what mistakes are you referring too?
"Someone like Romeny or Giuliani could bring in the great masses of 'moderates'."
Remind me, do we want the "...the great mases of 'moderates'"?
Thanks for your remarks! I am open to learning about Romney.
Nice to meet you, "Swordfished"! :)
Nancee
Mistakes as in running has-been political hacks who no longer bring anything to the table and whose previous personal and/or political shortcomings preclude them from ever gaining national office again. In 2008, the Republican Party is desperately going to need NEW blood and FRESH faces if it is going to maintain the Presidency and regain Congress. Good people like Steele, Irey, Romney, and other Conservative young guns are the future, not political old fogeys like Newt, McCain, and even Giuliani.
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