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Posted on 05/14/2009 6:02:49 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) already has a favorite for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination: South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, Shadegg said, "I like a lot of people in 2012 on the Republican side. I'd probably have to go with Mark Sanford first. I think Mark has proven that he is young, energetic, has new ideas and is a fresh face of the Republican Party."
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Have to admit, I’m leaning the same way.
Off the top of my head I don’t have any problems with Sanford, he’s not the only one though. I do hope he has no skeletons in his closet.
Hunter/DeMint 2012
What is Hunter doing now?
DeMint running the Senate would be positively priceless.
I am a native born white southerner and I just do not see a white, southern, conservative Republican male heading a winning ticket in 2012 in this political climate. Maybe the Veep position? Of course, the political climate could change vastly by then.
I don’t have any problem with Sanford but does he have enough name recognition to win in 2012? It seems like it’s come down to a popularity contest. Can he beat The One?
You are being a racist. :)
I predicted John Glenn would be the Democratic nominee in 1984.
I predicted Jack Kemp would be the Republican nominee is 1988.
I said there was no way John Ashcroft could ever lose his Senate seat from Missouri.
I said there was no way New Yorkers would elect a carpet bagger from Arkansas to the Senate.
I said that even though America was ready to elect a black man as President it would not be one with a name as unlikely and foreign sounding as Barack Obama.
I believe that Mark Sanford, Ted Cruz (who is running for the office of Attorney General in Texas), Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal are going to emerge as powerful forces for Conservatives in the next 4 years. If I had to guess today, I would guess that Mitt Romney will be the presidential candidate for the Republicans in 2012 and either Mark Sanford, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan or Bobby Jindal will be his running mate. I also expect the two non-VP candidates will be making good news for the right and for conservatives in the house or in the senate or in governorships. Cruz will be an excellent nominee for the U. S. Supreme Court. See a recent profile of him in National Review.
(By the way, my take is that had Huckabee not screwed up the primaries, Romney would have won the GOP nomination and would probably be president today.)
Perhaps the walk in the woods we are taking today will produce renewed vigor and virtue for the right. The left did not beat the right in 2006 and 2008. Republicans did it to the conservative movement. It looks like we have some hope with these guys.
As some of you have heard me say before, Paul Ryan is the bravest politician I have known. He has not been afraid to risk his office to do what he believes is right. For instance, last fall, while the financial structure of the United States was crumbling, Ryan voted for the TARP bill when it was overwhelmingly opposed by people in his district and while it was being demagogue by his Democratic opponent. Whether you agree with Mr. Ryan or not, you have to admire his courage. Similarly, you have to despise the wormy coward, Arlen Spector, who bolts, not on principal, but on fear of losing his office.
N. B. My personal take on Paul Ryan, for what it is worth, is that the initial TARP bill (which finally passed on the second try) averted a second depression. The glimmers of light we are seeing at the end of the tunnel now are directly tied to that one vote. Don’t get me wrong, there have been a lot of dumb spending bills since then, but it is fair to say that if you liked the aftermath of Lehman Brothers, you would have loved the sudden death of AIG and AIG and a bunch of other time bombs are being unwound and diffused in an orderly fashion by the original TARP bill that would have died but for the courage of Paul Ryan and his ilk.
Sorry, but no thanks.
I will never vote for the statist bastard Romney.
Indeed. Slick Willard makes the False Messiah look honest.
Calling someone a racist on this forum is a pretty serious charge and I am nothing of the sort. Being from the south I have seen lots of them. Do you even know the definition of a racist?
Well, it is in 2012, after all. Who besides people from Illinois had heard of Barack Obama back in 2006?
Did you look closely at my post. There is a smiley face there. I was meant as a joke. Sorry if I offended you; but if you were a real southerner you would have gotten it.
mono. Time for a little regional pride. The prescription: Someone acceptable to most of the Christian base and acceptable to part of the GOP establishment.
Sanford fits that description better than Huckabee and others. I think DC establishment would torpedo Huckabee if he looked like a serious threat. Not so for Sanford.
“I do hope he has no skeletons in his closet.”
Spoken a few days too soon... Or just on time.
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