Posted on 03/06/2010 6:59:09 PM PST by SmartInsight
The GOP lacks a standard-bearer for 2012 - but the list of contenders will be growing in the fall.
Texas governor Rick Perry's impressive primary victory over Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is a signal. After the midterm election this November, the field of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 (or later) is going to get bigger and possibly better.
The list is long: Mitch Daniels, John Kasich, Meg Whitman, Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, and Jim DeMint. And Perry.
You'll notice I haven't mentioned Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich. They're already national figures. Palin seems to feel no urgency about 2012. She may be planning a presidential run, but there's no evidence of it. Instead, she's giving speeches, endorsing Republican candidates, appearing on Fox News, writing a second book, and trying to develop a TV show. Gingrich, according to various reports, plans to run.
But it's Perry for whom 2010 may be the most consequential breakout year. He's running for reelection on an anti-Washington theme, and he's also antiestablishment, having beaten the darling of the Texas Republican grandees. For a Republican, that's just about perfect positioning.
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I hope a strong conservative Republican emerges, who can also bring in independents to beat Obama.
If it’s Mitt, I quit.
Amen.
“Gingrich, according to various reports, plans to run.”
Not only ‘no’ but, ‘HELL NO!’ *SPIT*
Some of these names are bizarre. Whitman, Kasich? They are at best fifty fifty to when their governor races. Why didn’t Barnes list Hutchinson, Paul, Limbaugh, Hanity, me? As long as we are throwing crap against the wall.
Jim DeMint is the conservative and he has been all along.
“If it’s Mitt, I quit.”
I said “strong, conservative Republican, who can beat Obama”.
Mitt isn’t any of the above, nor can he beat Obama. He should not even bother running in the primary.
I am tied down to conservative principles. I won’t vote for a RINO.
If it’s another RINO like McCain, I’ll simply vote third-party like I did in 2008.
I said “strong conservative Republican”.
Perry? NO. NO. NO.
Did Barnes serious call Kay Bailey Hutchison “the darling of the Texas Republican grandees”?? He is showing serious ignorance.
No one should take Perry’s primary win this week as an indication of his popularity here in Texas. He won because there were no good candidates in the race.
Please, NO!
Question: giving speeches, endorsing Republican candidates, appearing on Fox News, writing a second book, and trying to develop a TV show.(incorrect though, actually trying to produce a documentary) makes one not likely to run for President?
All American Allan West would kick the Kenyan’s ass.
“I’ll simply vote third-party like I did in 2008.”
Great, so we have YOU to thank for Obama.
(not that I ever liked McCain, but voting for third party got us Bill Clinton, Dem Congress and Obama — will some people never learn?)
As I said, I am hoping for a strong conservative Republican, who is also able to get the support of independents to beat Obama. Some fuzzy RINO couldn’t beat Obama.
“If it’s Mitt, I quit.”
For sure!!
If the GOP nominee is some one I do not like, I want Obama to have another 4 years!
Yep, some fools never learn...or are too bull headed to get it.
For sure!!
Yep.
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