Posted on 09/26/2004 1:54:16 PM PDT by JLS
Bill First 5/2 John McCain 7/2 Rudolph Guiliani 7/2 George Pataki 9/2 Chuck Hagel 6 Mitt Romney 6 Bill Owens 8 Tom Ridge 8 George Allen 12 Norm Coleman 12 Lindsey Graham 14 Sam Brownback 14 Arnold Schwarzenegger 66 Dick Cheney 66 Jeb Bush 66 Laura Bush 100
Rice doesn't have any political (as in being elected) experience.
Keyes. I don't know much about him, but the little I've heard of him in his Illinois run, the less I care for him.
Keyes is currently trailing Obama in the polls by 45 points. You don't suppose that might diminish his attractiveness as a presidential candidate, do you?
I'm not endorsing Giuliani. I merely said that the way things are going, I think he'll be the nominee. I'm likely completely wrong.
So who do you think will run in 2008?
Cheney will resign during the second Bush term. W will appoint the following VP to set him up as the frontrunner for the nomination:
Christopher Cox.
Ditto...I don't think it could happen, fortunately.
I love Rummy, too, but he wouldn't consider it.
I think the Republicans would also eat themselves alive with that ticket.
"Sen. John McCain will never be the nominee of the GOP"
I agree but the Dems could (and have already tried to)nominate him. Watch for Hillary! to slip some glass in his chow soon after this election.
Romney would make a great campaigner and would carry on the GOPlegacy of values and common sense.
Rudy's on his third marriage - and, reportedly, overtly carried on with other women during his first two. This is a candidate for the "family values" party?
Guiliani/Tommy Franks
Lindsey Graham = No First Lady. Maybe the reason he is a whiney boy is that he isn't married.
My Senator. I like him a lot... as my Senator. Not a chance in hell.
John McCain 7/2
Captain Queeg? You've got to be joking!
Rudolph Guiliani 7/2
My favorite, particularly if we are still fully engaged in the war, which is likely.
George Pataki 9/2
YASACCR - yet another stiff assed country club Republican
Chuck Hagel 6
Puleeeze! If I wanted Hagel I'd be voting for Kerry this time and '08 wouldn't be an issue
Mitt Romney 6
Successful businessman, Governor now, but of Massachusetts? And the whole Olympics thing is just one step removed from the UN. I don't think so.
Bill Owens 8
Bill who?
Tom Ridge 8
I hate to say this, but he doesn't look Presidential. He just looks..... odd. That shouldn't be an issue, and it probably wouldn't be for me once the campaign got started, but I think it would hurt him in the long run and make him less likely to win.
George Allen 12
Another Senator. A former governor, though, and that's to the good. But he's also a lawyer. I don't know enough about him, but Senators don't become President very often.
Norm Coleman 12
Yet another Senator. And another lawyer, to boot.
Lindsey Graham 14
Yet another Senator. Yet another Lawyer. And the failed impeachment of Bill Clinton will be a death knell
Sam Brownback 14
YAS. YAL. But he's also a farmer. Hmmmmmmmmmmm? Do Kansans become President? It's fly over country, but Eisenhower was an adopted Kansan, but does that count?
Arnold Schwarzenegger 66
Um..... Constitution? It might be possible, but I sincerely doubt it. Now, he has maintained his dual citizenship in Austria, so President of the EU is more intriguing.
Dick Cheney 66
I'd vote for him in a heart beat. He'd have to overcome 4 years of outrageous lies about him and Halliburton, which I don't think the media would allow him to do.
Jeb Bush 66
Good choice. I'd vote for him. Not a chance that a third Bush would be elected President so soon.
Laura Bush 100
I don't believe for an instant that she'd run.
Limbaugh's separated from his third wife and currently dating. I haven't heard of his ratings plummeting in light of that.
Bill First and George Allen are big question marks right now.
John McCain is conservative enough, but to much of a mavarick.
Rudolph Guiliani, George Pataki, Tom Ridge and Mitt Romney are way too liberal to be a GOP nominee for Prez.
Chuck Hagel is a losse cannon and not a team player.
Norm Coleman, Lindsey Graham and Sam Brownback are longshots at this point.
I don't think the nation is ready for Jeb Bush to be POTUS.
Dick Cheney and Laura Bush aren't gonna run.
And RINO Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't eligible to be POTUS.
How about a GOP ticket of Bill Owens and Rick Santorum?
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