Posted on 11/22/2008 11:56:31 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
They’re asking whether various candidates should run, not who the nominee should be, but it’s a fair proxy for enthusiasm. 67 percent say yes to the ‘Cuda, 62 to Romney, 61 to Huck. No one else cracks 50. Among conservative Republicans, it’s Palin 73, Huck 65, Mitt 64; among moderates and liberals, Mitt 59, Palin 48, Huck 46. Based on those numbers, it’s actually Romney who’s best positioned to unite the party.
The more I think about it, the more skeptical I am that all three will run. Even I’m not pessimistic enough to believe the recession will last until 2012, which means The One will inevitably be credited with having succeeded in his chief task by the time his term ends. Huckabee will run anyway because he’s hot to remake the party in his image, but Romney doesn’t strike me as eager for another expensive primary war just to be a sacrificial lamb in the general. My hunch is he’ll run only if Obama looks vulnerable and, even then, only if there are enough social cons running to split the base among them so that his strength with moderates is magnified. (It worked for McCain this year, didn’t it?) If he doesn’t run, I assume Pawlenty will throw in and try to capture those moderates with his “Sam’s Club” rhetoric. He won’t win, but he desperately needs a higher profile if he’s going to make a serious run in the future. (It worked for Huckabee this year, didn’t it?)
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More Sarahs. Fewer Arnolds.
“There are WAY too many talented young Conservatives out there to cast our lot with RINOs.”
Talented older conservatives Thompson, Hunter and Tancredo didn’t exactly set the world on fire, agree?
Considering the kind of baggage he carries, the Mexican consulate in AR, the stuff about his son hanging a stray dog, Huckabee using his office to strong-arm the investigator, the attempt to garner some goodies as gov by claiming them "wedding gifts" just to mention a few, I can see the lamestream latching on to the guy in order that the GOP once again has a weak candidate, one that will not motivate the troops to support. I think you may well be correct.
If they do pick Huckster than I pray we lose. That is how serious I am about that idiot.
Frankly, I don't know that you would have to pray all that hard.
These are good picks but we have the RINO element which goes for Huck & Romney. I'm going with Jindal with either of the 4 above mentioned as V/P.
Precisely - Palin-Jindal. I don’t care how brilliant he is, he’s not Sarah, and she’s the one who even the dopes who flunked the Ziegler-Zogby questions know about.
There’s a reason that millions of people got excited about the GOP in the past 2 months and it’s not Bobby Jindal.
Then in '12 the GOP may have to have Huck-voting-parties, where they get voters liquored up real good before a designated driver takes them to the polls.
ROTFLMAO. That is exactly what it will take.
He seems pretty sane to me. Maybe it’s you that is the lunatic.
I personally would not like to have her wasted with a pres or veep slot. My advice, let whichever GOP'er who wins the next presidency name her Secretary of Energy, earn herself some points with these numbskull-Washington-elitists. Not to confirm their idiocy, but to give her a chance to show that she is not what the media made her out to be in a national manner. Plenty of time for her to run for the Executive Office later.
Are there any politicians from Arkansas who aren't grifters?
Thompson showed he really didn't have his heart in it. As for Tancredo and Hunter, they're never going to get traction as conservative House members. Sarah would have fallen into their category as well, except, luckily, she was brought to the forefront by the nominee.
I mean, really, do republicans really think that a man elected Governor in the HOMESTATE of the KENNEDY's and JOHN KERRY is going to represent us in the White House ? Mix in the secret hatred of Christians by Mormons and we'd be even worse off.
Christianity...is a perfect pack of nonsense...the devil could not invent a better engine to spread his work than the Christianity of the nineteenth century. – Prophet Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, vol. 6, p.167
"There are those outside the Church who say Latter-day Saints do not believe in the traditional Christ. No, I don't. The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I speak.” – LDS President Gordon B. Hinckley (LDS Church News, June 20, 1998)
Go Sarah Go !!
Well, if you think casting out demons a normal, healthy pastime for a college student, remind me not to stand to close to you when you begin rolling on the floor, frothing at the mouth and speaking in tongues.
So the 'Rats and RINOs in Congress could shoot down and ridicule her every idea?
That's a set-up for failure.
You won’t have to worry about that. Shall we zot you now or later?
We need to focus on getting control of congress in 2010 first. I am leaning heavily towards Jindal at this point though with Sarah on the ticket.
Nope Palin/Jindal.
Gonna zap me with a little Lou'siana voodoo?
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