Palin vs. Romney. If both seek the presidency, it could split the Republican party.

National Review ^ | 03/01/2011 | Ramesh Ponnuru

[SeekAndFind]

Two potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination have been described as

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[Politicalmom]

Forget it. I voted for McCain only after many people pleaded with me to do so. I’m done voting for losers. I won’t ever vote for the Huckster or Romney.

[ScaniaBoy]

My dear FRiend, if I hadn’t been so well brought up I would have called your last posts truly psychotic.

[Servant of the Cross]

Still pushing Mitch 'Socons Shut Up' Daniels I see?

Freedom requires virtue, virtue requires faith and faith requires freedom and around again." ... The Golden Triangle of Freedom (Os Guinness)

[Retired COB]

Social Security, at bottom, is a welfare program. That was its original intent. Shouldn't welfare programs be means-tested?

I disagree that Social Security is a welfare program. We pay a separate tax for this program....it is not charity. Also, the more money we make, the more we pay into the system. It makes absolutely no sense to either cut off Social Security payments or reduce them to the people who have paid the most into it. If Donald Trump or Barrack Obama don't want to draw it because they're rich, they don't have to apply for it.

Further, the Social Security Trust Fund is a fiction.

It is now. The Congress has taken the cash out and put in IOU slips. It wasn't designed as a fiction. I would agree with the concept that Social Security, Socialized Medicine, and welfare programs in general are unconstitutional....but now that I've been paying a separate tax into the system for 48 years I don't think that it would be quite fair for some politician to say that I don't get anything out of it because I've made too much money. If anything, the Republican Party should be encouraging people to be successful.

I'm fine with giving it a rest.

I'm Not! If you don't have life, then all of the other items on your agenda don't really mean anything if you're not around to enjoy them. Anyone who wants to run for president as a Republican should support the entire Republican platform.

[Darren McCarty]

Daniels I'll consider. Right now, I'm leaning Cain or Gary Johnson by default more than anything else.

Daniels made some comments I'm concerned with, but I like his actions so far, and that's what I look at first. The biggest complaint I hear about him is so called "charisma", but lack of charisma to me is a positive. I'm voting for a CEO or a General Manager, not a preacher or a coach.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

It's all on the record. Wikipedia alone has volumes of Palin issues to be explored. Looking at her actual record, she has done much all on her own to fuel the controversy.

Several of the articles Palin has written in the last month alone indicate cause for concern.

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... “Each of them has a claim to being “next in line”:....

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Someone else in 2012!

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Agreed .. We need someone else and lets forget the next in line crap that has been in the GOP for years on end it seems. I’m not sure who that candidate is at the present time but maybe one will emerge.

[wolfman23601]

As large as Huck and Mitt’s shortcomings, at least they seem to like their country. I don’t think we can handle 4 more years of leadership that hates their own country and people. I would vote for Bill Clinton this time if the GOP nominated him. I won’t vote for either Mitt or Huck in the primary, but I can’t see myself risking another 4 years of an usurper.

[Servant of the Cross]

The GOP POTUS 2012 primary is the Tea Party vs. The Establishment. Doesn't matter who the names are. The debate, the argument, the "Split", whatever you want to call it, should be embraced, not avoided. It's time. My money is on the candidate who is embraced by the 'Tea Party' movement.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Let’s be dramatic, shall we? When there can be no logical discussion, the name calling and childish personal labels come out.

[proudpapa]

I too...will be voting for Sarah Palin for president in 2012. If her name is not on the ballot. Then I will write it in.

[proudpapa]

I’d vote for Romney...

..to be the new Commerce Secretary.

[proudpapa]

I’d vote for Romney...

..to be the new Commerce Secretary.

[BillM]

Wow that was typically descriptive of you. Put up or shut-up.

[Gator113]

I’ll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.

[Psalm 144]

“The GOP POTUS 2012 primary is the Tea Party vs. The Establishment. Doesn’t matter who the names are. The debate, the argument, the “Split”, whatever you want to call it, should be embraced, not avoided. It’s time.”

So. Very. True.

[joe fonebone]

I think former michigan governor John Engler should appear somewhere on the ticket....he cleaned up michigan real fast, and served 3 terms in a strong union state...as sarah’s vp, just might be the ticket

[joe fonebone]

Nobody here seems to get it...there will be no lib on the primary ballot for president...so the libs will swarm to our primaries and vote for whatever rino they please. Combine that with the rino vote, and the tea party loses....the pubs need to close their primaries

[McGruff]

So far, Daniels makes the most sense.

I'll admit I don't know much about Mitch Daniels but

Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.) is known as a strong fiscal conservative, a top selling point for a potential presidential run. But before he was governor, Daniels was the first budget director for President Bush during a time when the country went from a budget surplus to a budget deficit, and it's likely that he'll have to explain how that fits with the philosophy he touts should he decide to jump into the Republican field in 2012.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/27/mitch-daniels-bush-budget-director_n_828773.html

Doesn't sound to encouraging.