Posted on 06/03/2004 4:47:27 PM PDT by Big Daddy Paul
Who do ya'll think should run for President after George W leaves office?
Candidates or dinner? *wink*
Bush made wise choices in selecting his Cabinet, but by bringing in the old guard for a second round he has done little to develop the next generation of GOP Presidential candidates (which, in fairness, probably isn't really any concern of his). Once-promising younger Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Rick Santorum have fizzled. Truth tellers like James Inhofe get brutalized by the media. John McCain tells the Democrats what they want to hear, but his Howard Dean-like aura of instability ensures he'll never win a Republican nomination despite the favorable media treatment he gets. And the media would work overtime to destroy Colin Powell if he ever became a serious Republican candidate - there is no way the Left will allow a black man to represent conservatism in America (on the other hand, if Powell runs in 2008 as a Democrat, he wins the Presidency in a walk - I consider him the great underestimated danger, not Hillary).
Unless some new candidate emerges that we haven't really considered, like Clinton did for the Democrats in 1992, the Republican Party is going to have big problems winning in 2008. There are no clear heir-apparents to Bush at this time.
A few elections ago, I liked a ticket of Haig and Kirkpatrick. Nothing tougher than an ex fighting-general and a recovering alcoholic woman.
Right now we need someone tough enough to beat the swinette from Chappaqua... the witch of Westchester... the bride of Beelzebubba.
Condi Rice has the superior intellect and calm-under-fire to counter Hillary's evil ambitions and expose her for what she is. No white male will beat Clinton in 2008... not even Guiliani. You can take that to the bank. Whether Rice wants to is another matter.
For our country, I hope she does.
I hope you don't mind the correction, but Senators, as a breed, are very ill-suited to the Presidency due to their generally deliberative and consensus-seekign attitudes. Not much leadership in that gene pool.
Ridge isn't the most energetic candidate we could nominate but he would come to the table with national recognition and serious credentials on security.
How abut Cochran for his running mate?
But as a VP?
You're on the wrong forum. Liberals post to http://democraticunderground.com
Those are all horrible liberals in that list! Being from NY State I can tell you that George Pataki and Rudy Giuliani are two of the most horrible liberals in the Republican party. I would work tirelessly to ensure those two clowns never appeared on the GOP ballot.
Oh, sure. No problem there. But I expect it will be a very long time before a sittign Senator gets elected to the White House at the top of the ticket.
There ya go ! I'm with you !
Sen. Chuck Hagel (RINO-Nebraska) will stick his globalist toe in the presidential race water.
Dude you can't be serious. You are advocating that some of the most horrible liberals in the GOP get moved up to the top of the ladder, and nominated for President?
Don't eat the brown acid fist thing in the morning, ok?
Oops, I was thinking Michael, not Ron !!
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You know...I may not be liked for this answer, but what about the Honorable Fred D. Thompson?
Sure, it would cut into his Law and Order role a little, but I always thought he was a great Senator.
Just a thought.
There's no doubt we are in trouble. I think we are in trouble as a party, because we keep recycling the same names over and over, namely career politicians (or those who have made themselves known through politics). Career politicians, over time, tend to forget their party roots.
I'm probably alone in this, but I'd like to see the GOP run somebody who is not a career politician, who has distinguished themselves in other ways, and who has much more of a Conservative bent than the current crop of top GOP politicians. Someone who doesn't owe a lot of political favors.
There are many Conservatives who would make a great President. Unfortunately, the best and brightest wouldn't put themselves through the hell that has become the nomination/campaign process. Instead, we end up with people who make politics their career and who were chosen/annointed by others in the GOP leadership; they have a much easier path to the nomination than an "outside" Conservative.
That's what they used to say about Arkansas right?
But thanks to CFR, the massive media machine, and the frontloading of the primaries, it's going to be real tough for anyone other than the annointed candidate to get the nomination.
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