Posted on 11/08/2004 1:44:46 PM PST by fidelio
I know we have four more years of The Man in The White House, but I am curious as to what other Freepers think of possible 2008 candidates.
Here is my potential staring grid:
Rudy Giulliani (NY)
Sec. Colin Powell (NY)
Sen. Bill Frist (TN)
Gov. Jeb Bush (FL)
Sen. John McCain (AZ)
Gov. Mike Huckabee (AR)
Gov. Mitt Romney (MA)
In my opinion, Giulliani may be the force here. Although he will need someone to balance out the ticket and appeal to the base. My thinking would be Huckabee, a former Baptist minister who has dumped 110 pounds in a year and is also a "Man from Hope."
Thoughts?
Huckabee?? Forget it! He is a freakin' idiot and a bigot. You think W. got a hard time because of his religion, Just let this dummy get the nomination.
In Ark. all a criminal has to do is declare "I'm a Christian" and good ole' Mikey lets them go. And of course right after these criminals dupe him, They go right back to committing crimes. Not the stable person we want in the Whitehouse
You were also right to leave Pataki off the list. Thankfully No Chance there
JC Watts - If Hitlary puts Barack Osama on the ticket, look for Repubs to counter with Rice or Watts. Watts would be excellent candidate even on top of the ticket.
I'd vote for Watts... But Oklahoma doesn't eactly play to our weakness...
Rice, besides being unflappable and a world class classical pianist and a sports freak, take this Hillderbeast:
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 institution's chief budget and academic office
the 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, the Mississippi College School of Law in 2003, the University of Louisville and Michigan State University in 2004. She resides in Washington, D.C."
Hillary Who?
Could be right there!
Tho I think with Pat, ego/self importance had a lot to do with it...dare I say, "self righteousness?"
I think Pataki will be on the ticket. Bush - Pataki would be a great ticket. Pataki would give us NJ, Penn and NY. Bush would give us Florida.
John
So because she choose not to spit into the wind - she's obviously what you accuse her of?
You have first hand experience because you "had a friend who is Mormon'
LOL
Ive lived all over the states, know 100's of Mormons, know their doctrine - which is "Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is our Savior, and He will be our Judge."
Thank God, (Our Heavenly Father), not you -
Peace
Thune looks great... but I doubt we will see a President from South Dakota.
Here's my handicapping:
1. Traditional wisdom is that pubbies will not win with a pro-abortion candidate. That X's Powell and Guliani. However, consider this with Guliani. Guliani would lose a huge block of southern voters, but who would they turn to? Hillary? He could take New York, and unless the Rats tried an inside fake by going conservative southern candidate, he'd still own the south, although he might lose Louisiana and some of the midwest, like Missouri. Edwards couldn't win anything in the south. If the Pubbies took NY, the Rats would be in dire straits. Do the Pubbies want to risk a candidate that about a third of their voters might stay home? Also, could Guliani survive the southern sweep in the primaries?
2. The candidate must have been through the rigors of a campaign as a candidate. That X's Condi and Powell.
3. Senators usually make bad candidates. The last one that won was JFK, and he had to count on the Daley political machine to deliver that. LBJ was VP and ran as incumbent.
4. Look to governors. The only one I know much about is Jeb Bush. I think he'd be a good candidate, but he's said no. He could change his mind. Added bonus, ping, ping, ping. It would make the liberals absolutely nuts.
5. Other governors are possible, but I don't know enough about who's available and who's thinking about it. Texas delivers so many Presidents because we have such a huge state with so many ethnic groups that the Texas race is a pretty good vetting process. Also, the large number of virtually guaranteed electoral votes helps. Unfortunately, Rick Perry is not a viable candidate. No spine.
The only reason she still looks good to anyone is because she stays clear of interviews and the like - she's kinda like Tahraysah - let her out in public and the real screeching, witching woman comes out - How would they keep that under raps for the length of a campaign...
You may be right unless he gets some high profile legislation through (not likely for a freshman senator) and I don't think a southern vp candidate would help him much. But he looks damn good on paper.
i really like Watts - but would he be tough enough for the long gruel of campaign?
He was treated REALLY bad by the black caucus in D.C....and he bowed out. Not that I can blame him!.
But I wonder if he couldn't be better used in some other position? I'd love to see him host a segment on FOX news or some other high profile slot...He has such a great head on his shoulders
LOL - in other words, she will be herself...
I think you're totally right about a black woman would have to go as VP first - and Condi would be perfect - 8 years as VP then to the top of the ticket
Wow! interesting!
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