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Republican presidential nominees 2008

Posted on 12/19/2003 2:58:48 AM PST by Reader of news

I think President Bush will be re-elected next year surely. Nevertheless, there is not any sure candidate for Republican presidential nomination in 2008. I think John McCain, Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Condoleezza Rice, George Pataki and Bill Frist may be candidates.


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KEYWORDS: 2008; letsgetthrough2004; signedupforthis
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To: ArneFufkin
If I meet you, I'll pimp slap you.

Not disembowel me? ;-)

I hate operators.

What's an operator?

181 posted on 12/19/2003 11:45:13 AM PST by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: Duk’xJ27s fan
Rudy is a fat donkey with a horn glued on his nose(rino)... If you can make it in New York City politics there is something seriously wrong with you...

182 posted on 12/19/2003 11:45:51 AM PST by hosepipe
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To: Dan from Michigan
Rudy is also extremely anti-2nd amendment.

Don't go there. You'll be attacked as a "dumbass" and an "operator" like I was.

183 posted on 12/19/2003 11:46:01 AM PST by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: jmc813
My apology on the earlier post.

I meant that FreeperMail.

I wouldn't make that kinda comment to you, or put you int that reaction, in public.

184 posted on 12/19/2003 11:50:35 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: ArneFufkin
Don't sweat it. I take nothing personally and was just trying to lighten up the thread a bit. I'm still curious as to what an "operator" is though.
185 posted on 12/19/2003 11:52:13 AM PST by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: Veracruz
Condi Rice isn't. She's pro-AA, pro-abortion, and other than that no one knows her positions on anything else.

Condi should have been held responsible for 911. She mad some pretty ignorant statements after 911 that made it apparent that she either did not have a clue or tried to make excuses.

Some National Security advisor.

186 posted on 12/19/2003 11:56:32 AM PST by Radioactive
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To: jmc813
You are an "operator" jnc.

You don't react to anything. You have carried Mr. Leroys bong for months.

In my "humble" opinion .... there is NOTHING you do around here that is positive. (Political judgement).

Oily. Operate. That's it!

187 posted on 12/19/2003 11:57:33 AM PST by ArneFufkin
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To: Veracruz
So when exactly are the conservatives going to get their due? So first it was wait till 2008 to get a conservative Republican as president, now it's 2016? 2060? 2132?

Just as it is hugely unlikely that we will see a seriously liberal President in the near future, it is equally unlikely that we will see a true conservative in the White House. Extremes tend to scare most sheaple and the vast majority of American's don't WANT any major changes. They like tweaks - change the tax rate, but just a little; don't socialize medicine, but adding a perscription drug benefit is okay - but sweeping change makes them uneasy.

Democrats know this and have incrementally moved us to the left. Republicans tend to stand on principle and want it all now and say they won't vote for the guy who doesn't agree with them 100%. Thus we will have at best moderate Republicans in the White House.

188 posted on 12/19/2003 11:57:40 AM PST by Crusher138 (crush her? I don't even know her!)
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To: bigeasy_70118
True, so I'll add my two cents as well.

Rudy has been too liberal on social issues such as guns, abortion, immigration etc. for the national GOP, however it must be kept in mind that he would never have been elected Mayor of liberal NYC if he didn't take those positions. I suspect he may be more conservative if he runs nationally. However, his prospects depend on whether he wins the NY Governership in '06 or, for a much bigger boost, takes on Hildebeast for Senate. In any event, given his social views he seems to me a more likely V.P. candidate then Presidential candidate.

Of the others mentioned, I also think Bill Owens is a very attractive candidate, and I would expect Jeb Bush, Bill Frist and a number of other candidates to run as well. (As a dark horse, I also like Sen. George Allen of Virginia, especially if the GOP picks up a few extra Senate seats in '04)
189 posted on 12/19/2003 11:57:58 AM PST by larlaw
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To: ArneFufkin
The Party "establishment" like Owens A WHOLE LOT. I know that

That's true. I've heard his name floated around as a possible speaker for fundraising events out here 2000 miles away.

If Mike Rogers takes the governorship from Granholm or the empty spot in 2010, he's one to watch later on.

190 posted on 12/19/2003 11:58:24 AM PST by Dan from Michigan ("if you wanna run cool, you got to run, on heavy heavy fuel" - Dire Straits)
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To: Duk’xJ27s fan
What about Tim Pawlenty?
191 posted on 12/19/2003 11:59:10 AM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: areafiftyone
I would vote for him, if he was for overturning Roe v Wade; you can be pro-choice and still be for letting the states decide the issue.

As a REPUBLICAN, that would make sense to be for states' rights.
192 posted on 12/19/2003 12:01:40 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: All
Sorry - I also cannot support Rudy - I did like what he did during 9-11.. but thats one event - anyone who supports removing constitutional right to own a firearm cannot be trusted to be prez...

Maybe.. as an off the wall suggestion - someone like Sen John Sununu.

Powell wont run - his wifey is worried he'll get whacked and wont allow it.

McCain is a decent choice as well.
193 posted on 12/19/2003 12:03:11 PM PST by wadeintothem
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To: wadeintothem
McCain is a decent choice as well.

You are intitled to your opinion, but excuse me, if I say you are out of your mind. You signed up today to post this nugget of wisdom? Welcome to FR.!!!

194 posted on 12/19/2003 12:08:21 PM PST by woodyinscc
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To: bdeaner
You mean Senor Tom (let's legalize 12 million illegals) Homeland Insecurity Director Ridge? LOL!!!
195 posted on 12/19/2003 12:08:26 PM PST by DLfromthedesert (We got Saddam, but Vicente's still at large.)
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To: ArneFufkin
You don't react to anything. You have carried Mr. Leroys bong for months. In my "humble" opinion .... there is NOTHING you do around here that is positive. (Political judgement).

I'm really starting to suspect that you're jealous of my good looks. I honestly do not recall you on any drug threads.

196 posted on 12/19/2003 12:18:34 PM PST by jmc813 (Help save a life - www.marrow.org)
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To: Servant of the 9
I don't know if I could hold my nose long enough to vote for Rudy in 2008. Sure, I like Condi (and, for those who've asked, Dr. Rice stated that Roe V. Wade should be a states' right issue rather than a federal issue.) but I don't think that she has the executive experience that she would need for the position.

I'd like to see her run for a governor's position (like, California after Slashin' Schwartzenegger) before she went after a higher office.

Also, after reading about Bill Owens, that is someone I could pull the lever for.(well, him and my senatoral hero, Santorum!) Bush, I'd have to think about (especially with the possibility of him being pro-illegals.)

197 posted on 12/19/2003 12:23:54 PM PST by Maigrey (Gregory, this year, don't take the Silverwear.)
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To: Jakarta ex-pat
Arnie can't run. He's not a native born citizen.

Bruce Willis would need more hair.8-)

198 posted on 12/19/2003 12:24:45 PM PST by Maigrey (Gregory, this year, don't take the Silverwear.)
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To: Duk’xJ27s fan
Here's my choice for 2008.

Dr. Condoleezza Rice
National Security Advisor

Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001.

In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University's Provost, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students.

As professor of political science, Dr. Rice has been on the Stanford faculty since 1981 and has won two of the highest teaching honors -- the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions.

From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military.

She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco.

Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, the University of Notre Dame in 1995 and the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003. She resides in Washington, D.C. June 2003

199 posted on 12/19/2003 12:28:48 PM PST by Steel Wolf (There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.)
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To: DLfromthedesert
You mean Senor Tom (let's legalize 12 million illegals) Homeland Insecurity Director Ridge? LOL!!!

ANYBODY is better than that douche bag, Rendell!
200 posted on 12/19/2003 12:35:26 PM PST by bdeaner
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