Posted on 02/03/2010 7:59:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Republicans Uncertain Over Who Should Challenge Obama in 2012
A new poll shows Republican voters are deeply divided over who they want to carry the party mantle in the 2012 presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads the pack, a couple other names are close behind and a whopping 42 percent of Republicans are listed as undecided.
Republicans may be seeing the start of a political surge, but GOP voters still don't know who they want to lead it.
A new poll shows Republican voters are deeply divided over who they want to carry the party mantle in the 2012 presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads the pack, a couple other names are close behind and a whopping 42 percent of Republicans are listed as undecided.
The numbers suggest the 2012 presidential primary is any Republicans' game. Republicans are expecting to pick up a lot of seats in the congressional midterm elections, buoyed by success in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections last year, and the Massachusetts Senate election last month. But while President Obama's approval ratings have dropped significantly since he took office, it's unclear who would be up to the task of challenging him.
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Obama may not make it to 2012. He may get impeached or resign.I think the kitchen is getting too hot for him and the November elections will be a bloodbath for his agenda.
Oops — Palin/McDonnell
LOL. That would be the “dreamy” ticket.
Barbour/Jindal or Barbour/Palin - having two governors on the ticket would rock my socks. No more all-talk legislators running for President.
perhaps the GOP shouldn’t decide. just maybe they should focus on letting the people decide.
I doubt Obama will be on the ticket!
The Republicans have never run anyone other than white men, only one time a white woman VP. Going up against Obama the political timing is not ideal for yet again two rich old white men on the ticket. We would get a counter effect with either a Hispanic or a woman. Obama can’t win re-election without the Hispanic vote, and their loyalty to him is very breakable. The time is ripe for the current generation of Hispanics to escape the plantation. Women’s plantation-voting loyalty seems harder to break.
I couldn't agree more. We need a young, fresh, new face. We need to start bringing over the young people. We need someone who could campaign at universities across the country and appeal to that demographic. I believe they will be easy to convert. They will be graduating with massive student loan debt, no good paying jobs and a mandate to purchase health care.
There is quibbling over the best Republican candidate, but there is NO QUESTION that ANY Republican would be an improvement over Obambi.
Demint
Not if it is Mitt (RomnObamaCare) Romney or Mike (Pardon Me) Huckabee.
Yea, the writer makes the assumption that O is running again. He is either going to quit and go cash in on the speaker’s circuit OR be run out of town by his fellow democrats.
Well, three years is a long time for someone to be "convinced" that s/he is just what we need....
As it stands, I think that the conservative wing of the GOP actually has a pretty strong bench to choose from, despite the propaganda being milled out by the MSM. We certainly don't need to rely on retreads like Romney or Huckabee, who aren't even all that conservative anywise. The way I figure it, our bench is as follows (and keep in mind, these individuals haven't necessarily said they WANT to run, I'm just listing them because I think they'd be good if they did, and are reasonably ready to do so):
Front bench
Jim DeMint
John Thune
Sarah Palin
Mitch Daniels
Mike Pence
Bob McDonnell
Back Bench (listed here not because I think any less of them, just that they need a little more "experience" in the cursus honorum sense of the word or that they need to be "better known" - may be good Veep material)
Marco Rubio
Michelle Bachmann
Ken Cucchinelli
John Hoeven
Jim Inhofe
Thune isn’t old and Rubio is a Cuban/American.
It would be a winner.
[PROGRESSIVE?
OHHHH, you mean LIBERAL.]
They are the same thing. Progressives were progressives until people figured out who they were and then they decided to start calling themselves liberals. Now liberals want to call themselves progressives again. I don’t care what they call themselves. They are anti-American, big governemnt, socialists who want to destroy our Constitutional Republic. Liberals-Progressives-Socialists-Marxists-Communists. It’s all the same.
I don't know about you, but as a registered GOP, I AM the people who should decide.
Who shouldn't decide, on the other hand, are Democrats, Independents, and third partyists. If you don't want to join the Party, then you shouldn't get a say in who the nominee is, simple as that. Closed primaries in all 50 states!
Mitch Daniels is my governor and I think he sucks.
Of that list, Romney (a make believe Conservative who was pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-illegal immigrant, and anti-gun, until he magically changed posistions just in time for the 2008 primaries, and who still supports his verion of Obamacare) is TOTALLY unacceptable.
The same goes for Brown. I am pleased to have any GOP Senator from liberal Massachussets, but he does not even pretend to be pro-life and is well to the left of RINOs like McCain and Graham. He should not be considered for any leadership role in the GOP, much less a spot on the 2012 ticket.
If Brown or Romney is our nominee, I will vote 3rd party.
The others are all acceptable to me, with Palin being my favorite, followed by Demint, then Pence.
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