Surveying the 2012 field: The ins, the outs and the maybes

Wash Post ^ | 2/8/11 | Chris Cillizza

[pissant]

He's got them listed thusly:

INs: Newt, Tpaw, Mitt, Huntsman and Santorum.

MAYBEs: Bachmann, Barbour, DeMint, Daniels, Rudy, Huck, Palin and Paul

OUTs: Christie, Jindal, Perry and Rubio

The only conservatives on here are DeMint and Bachmann and Santorum. Since Santorum was beaten like a bongo in his last race, he can go fly a kite.

DeMint/Bachmann 2012

(He left off Herman Cain, who should have been listed in the 'in' group, and could be substituted for either DeMint or Bachmann if they choose not to run)

[nascarnation]

Mike Pence (my personal favorite) is OUT also.
It appears he will be running for gov of Indiana.

[rovenstinez]

I think one or two on this list needs to switch Democratic and probably would end up with their nomination.

[pissant]

Yeah, I tried my darndest to push him to run for POTUS.

[Padams]

Another vote for DeMint/Bachmann (and Cain as VP if Bachmann runs for Senate)

Run DeMint Run

[Padams]

While the article says Newt is looking for office space in Atlanta, local Atlanta rumor says he’s also looking for a house. He’s been living in the Wash DC area, and apparently he doesn’t want to look so much like a Beltway insider. This is not a joke or satire.

[Reagan69]

Was that his sofa he sat on with Nancy, or did he borrow Nancy’s?

[DaxtonBrown]

[The only conservatives on here are DeMint and Bachmann and Santorum.[

That’s just a flat out lie pissant, and you know it.

[pissant]

Jindal might be able to sneak in. But he’s on the out list. And they did leave out Cain (running) and Pence (out)

[Brian_Baldwin]

I like our lady Sarah, and I like Bachmann, and Mitt. And while I was against Huckabee the last go around, I think I could be very happy with his candidacy this time around if other R’s pick him.

[pissant]

You are one of a kind, that’s for sure. Around here anyway. LOL

[newzjunkey]

Newt is smart but he has no hope of winning. With mistresses and multiple divorces, one perhaps while the first wife had cancer, he'll never get the women's vote or family values types. He's a serious candidate with feet of clay and divisive roadkill.

Huntsman hadn't appeared on my 2012 radar until this piece so I'll skip him. Pawlenty is ok but his record in MN is not unassailable.

Romney is hated: he's hated in MA, he's hated by religious bigots, he's hated by those who don't believe his past moves right are genuine. With Obamacare controversial, his "healthcare" bill will hang around him like a boat anchor. Years after a big loss in PA Santorum is a joke. Just Google his name. More importantly we don't need another Senator President.

[newzjunkey]

And while I was against Huckabee the last go around, I think I could be very happy with his candidacy this time around if other R’s pick him.

What's made a difference since? Are you so warm and fuzzy from his evangelical rhetoric that you can ignore his clemency scandal allow the rampage of cop killings and child rapes by Maurice Clemmons?

[newzjunkey]

On the Fence? I can't even listen to Rudy's speaking engagement radio promos without cringing. If he wants to run in 2012, he should be targeting short-timer Gillibrand (NY) and try to win another Senate seat for the GOP.

I was no fan of Barbour (MS) as party chair so I've overlooked his tenure as governor. Looking at various leadership failures in the recent past, I'm not looking to the South to provide someone to get us out of Obama's morass. Bristling from 2008's battle of the Senators, I've little interest those like DeMint (SC) or Thune (SD) at this time.

Half-term Palin (AK) is a far better asset where she is now: she fires up voters and carries a message. Cloaking himself in evangelical smarm, Hackabee (AR) can get stuffed over clemency.

I don't know enough about Bachmann (MN) but she's only a congresswoman - might be a running mate though.

Gov Daniels (IN) is someone I'm looking at more favorably due to what seems like a successful governorship. If nothing else, I'd like to see him in the race. I've no interest in kooky congresscritter Ron Paul (TX).

[pissant]

There’s alot more to dislike than like. DeMint is my first choice of the folks kicking around running. After that, Bachmann and Cain are the conservatives, hopefully they can get traction

[NTHockey]

Your bias against Governor Sarah Palin is well known on this forum. But to exclude her from a list of Conservatives takes your PDS into KO territory.

As to the author’s listing, the INs are a joke; the MAYBEs are a mess but at least, the OUTs are correct.

[pissant]

She’s liable to catch pneumonia from all the damn wind zipping by her finger.

[NTHockey]

>>She’s liable to catch pneumonia from all the damn wind zipping by her finger.<<

Proof or more PDS? If you have proof of her taking a poll (as all the others do) and then modifying her views (as all the others do), please present hard FACTS. Otherwise, join KO’s chorus of RINOs.

[DaxtonBrown]

Everyone knows you left off Palin from the list of conservatives in order to be spiteful, but what else is new? Of course, because you have chosen to be a royal destructive pain in the arse out of spite, it means you invite the same treatment - people who don’t play fair don’t deserve fair treatment.

You are operating like the muslims, hiding behind the good intentions and fairness of others while burrowing under the skin. People will wake up eventually. Many already have.

[Retired COB]

I think one or two on this list needs to switch Democratic and probably would end up with their nomination.

You must mean Romney and Guilliani.