Dear sam_paine,
"...if you'll tell me who that is."
There are many Republicans for whom I'd vote with at least some happiness, and others for whom I'd even hold my nose and vote.
Some of these folks suffered in 2006, and may not recover for a run for the presidency. Others seem uninterested. Others are running.
I'd vote for Duncan Hunter.
Or Mike Huckabee.
Or Bill Owens.
Or Tommy Thompson.
Or John McCain (with great reluctance).
Or Haley Barbour.
Or, if they could recover, George Allen or Rick Santorum.
Or heck, if we were stupid enough to nominate another Bush boy, I'd even vote for Jeb Bush.
It's unlikely that I'd vote for Mr. Romney. At this point, I judge him a phony. However, I'm open to the possibility that he may persuade me otherwise.
Mr. Giuliani is about the only one that is pretty much completely unacceptable to me.
And even that could change.
If he wore sackcloth and ashes, and walked down Broadway, loudly wailing and lamenting his previous crimes, and tearing his garments and his hair (what little there is to tear), flailing at himself with a nice cat o' nine tails, proclaiming his repentance and conversion on important issues like life, and the right to bear arms, and preserving the traditional family, if he dumped his current floozy, Ms. Nathan, understanding that as a Catholic, he is in a continuing adulterous relationship, then I'd give it some thought.
If you have other Republicans to mention, I'll tell you what I think about them.
sitetest
What he said! (Well said at that!)
Which, of course, he would of course have to do in any case since he is a popular former Mayor in the most liberal city on earth, so he's got some things that make him popular with "eeeevil" people, thus he smells to high heaven tored staters, just because! [Neew York Sitteee!?! Gitarope!]
I'm fine with any of those that you've got in your list, like I told Narses, I'm an ABH.
Look down on me all you want, but I have one principle, and that is that this country cannot be handed over to an open Marxist like Hillary, because it can NEVER be undone, and it undermines the hopes for every other fiscal and socially conservative principle for the rest of my life and most of our kids'. That is my one principle that narses won't give me any credit for.
BTW I still can't understand what anyone ever saw in Geo Allen. I had heard so much hype about him and then I heard him on MTP or something, and I thought, "Good Lord what an uninspiring milquestoast muddle-feet." Sure nuff, he got taken out by the wit of a college kid.