Posted on 04/20/2011 7:39:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
133 posted on Monday, April 18, 2011 8:15:49 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
My two cents:
Palin (Won’t run)
Romney (Please)
Huckabee (Please)
Pawlenty (Weenie)
Huntsman (Please)
Gary Johnson (Pro-drugs, otherwise isn’t horrible)
Buddy Roemer (Please)
Barbour (White male with a heavy Southern accent vs. Obama...don’t know how that will play. Personally, I like him.)
Daniels (Weenie)
Santorum (Got blown out by a fern. UN Ambassador maybe)
Bachmann (Now you’re talking)
The Pauls (Libertarian or just kooky?)
Gingrich (Please)
Bolton (Isn’t he pro-qweer marriage? If not, maybe VP.)
Cain (No way a Black man gets near the presidency again, thanks to Barry.)
Trump (Flip-flopper, but he’s going after Soetoro, which is good.)
I see Jeb Bush getting drafted as the GOP POTUS candidate.
Like I’ve posted numerous times before, I can see Jeb Bush getting drafted as the GOP POTUS nominee.
Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. He had these four traits that might have helped him:
1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.
These Republicans, who might run, have at least three of those four traits: Sarah Palin, Dirk Kempthorne, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romney. I hope that all of them will run, and I hope that Haley Barbour and Buddy Roemer will run. I hope that at least four of them will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will get the majority of the delegates before the convention. The convention will be more suspenseful and exciting, causing more people to watch and hear the great republican ideas. That happened in 1980, and Reagan won about 40 states.
Ames is less than 4 months away. That will winnow the winnowable. Let the winnowing begin ... so we can get some of ‘em winnowed. Especially the ones who need to get winnowed. Who will get winnowed by then? Santorum?
Who's "obsessed"? We just want to see proof of Barry's constitutional eligibility, which only his original LFBC can provide, and which he could release in a New York minute.
We asked for it. Barry refused that simple request. Were we supposed to just shrug our shoulders and say, "As you wish, your Highness"?
It's Obama who has prolonged this, and dragged it out. He could have shut this whole controversy down before the election, if he had simply released his LFBC to the public. That's all that anyone's ever asked him to do.
Instead of attacking your fellow Americans for asking their president for the simplest, and most basic proof of citizenship there is, why aren't you asking Obama why he's refusing to do so? Don't you think we have a right to ask this basic question of our president?
Lastly, you're wrong about "only a small minority of the conservative base" being interested and concerned with this question. I don't have the link, but the results of a scientific poll that was recently conducted among center-right voters indicates that the MAJORITY of us want Obama to prove that he's constitutionally eligible to hold office.
No Reagan didn’t. His shooting was allegedly the attempt by an insane person to win the love of Jodie Foster ala “Taxi Driver”.
Plus, Reagan and Bush had long political careers and plenty to be hit with. Sarah has very little of a career and little to have provoked this storm of hatred. What has she done to generate this? Give birth to a Down’s Syndrome baby?
Have a daughter give birth to an OOW baby? What?
Reagan had kicked the liberals in the teeth for decades and Bush had “stolen” the election from their favorite environut. Sarah’s only crime is having the natural charisma which the media tries to create for its creatures.
Gee, I mention Gary Johnson as an afterthought and the SOB goes ahead and announces he’s running! (no exploratory committee for him.)
Pro-pot I don’t care but articles are saying he is pro-gay marriage, pro-choice and pro-illegals too. Full tilt libertarian basically.
A Playboy interview circa 2000 seems to confirm most of this (no mention of the gays as this was before that started to go down)
So unless he’s “evolved” like Trump and Romney he’s going nowhere.
“Trump may be a modern-day counterpart to Wendell Willkie.”
That’s apt. In Wilkie’s case with the war and GOP still healing from the bitch slap of the 1930’s I think his nomination was acceptable. And he gets points for going to hostile areas and campaigning.
Trump though.....another American Idol like Obama.
If Santorum runs I don’t see him going anywhere.
Barbour is definitely a ticket for 4-more-Obama. You forgot fat and old looking to ‘heavy’ Southern accent. Jeeze, like grandpa McCain had a chance even if he wasnt a complete phony.
Jeb who?? Sorry, his brother killed that possibility.
Your list was entertaining. So far not looking good for our side.
I dont understand all the “ifs”.
These candidates are out campaigning already, even though they are not official.
they are all running.
Barbour
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53485.html
Santorum hired 2 guys in IA this week.
Palin’s people are already working on it. (Go to SarahPac and Organize4Palin and sign up. they will email you.
Some will drop out by SEPT if they don’t get any results.
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