Who will be the Republican Nominee in 2012?

Romney

Palin

Newt

Perry

Jindal

Huckabee

Bloomberg

Pawlenty

Rudy Giuliani

Fred Thompson

Added Pawlenty to the list as he looks to be running too.

Romney is the easy one. He's safe, and has the best chance to beat Obamania (if that's possible). His strategy has to be to stay quiet(after he gets the nomination) until Fall 2012, then make a run after the convention. Kind of like when the Giants won the superbowl. As for VP I'm going with Thune.

Romney has been a real cool customer since bowing out of the primary last year. He hasn't been controversal and has sat back while the left wing media hammers away at Palin, Newt, and Stanford. Mitt showed he can be a good debater last year. He shows he can turn it up a notch during debates. Romney and Rice would an ticket that would be pretty intesting. Rice would bring the foreign policy experience plus be first African American woman on a ticket. That would be a very qualified ticket where they liberal press would have trouble making personal attacks like they did with Palin and Quayle. Very important to nominate at ticket that doesn't have skeletons. Liberal media jumped on the pregnant teenage daughter from the getgo and painted Palin as an airhead.

Early guess looks to be Romney. That means it probably won't be him.

Rudy is my first choice, Romney 2nd. Both of these guys ran successful businesses and government administrations - unlike that joke we have in office now.

I would hope not Rudy for some of his stances in the past on the National ID card. I could deal with Romney. I wouldn't work for him, but I could definitely vote for him. Other than him I don't see anyone in the list on the first two posts that I can get excited about.

Palin, Huckabee, Jindal= UGH, No, and UGH!!!

Newt, Bloomberg, and Pawlenty=Eh, maybe.

Perry= I've had to live with him as Governor. Thats enough for me.

Thompson=Didn't take full advantage of his shot in 2008. Why would it be any different in 2012?

I like Huntsman however, Obama made a great political maneuver by grabbing him as Ambassador to China.

There has to be other talent in the party that is interested in governing instead of grandstanding. I guess I just am not seeing it.

(07-03-2009 09:25 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  I would hope not Rudy for some of his stances in the past on the National ID card. I could deal with Romney. I wouldn't work for him, but I could definitely vote for him. Other than him I don't see anyone in the list on the first two posts that I can get excited about.

Palin, Huckabee, Jindal= UGH, No, and UGH!!!

Newt, Bloomberg, and Pawlenty=Eh, maybe.

Perry= I've had to live with him as Governor. Thats enough for me.

Thompson=Didn't take full advantage of his shot in 2008. Why would it be any different in 2012?

I like Huntsman however, Obama made a great political maneuver by grabbing him as Ambassador to China.

There has to be other talent in the party that is interested in governing instead of grandstanding. I guess I just am not seeing it.

Romney.

I'd say Romney if he wasn't a mormon, I think Huckabee is positioned well at the moment with the TV show and regularly being on TV. He's got the money and knows how to play the role, comes across as a car salesman though(i.e. can't trust) and many will have a big issue with the mormonism thing.

Though I'd much rather have a mormon over the Church of Obama(the alternative if he's nominated)

Mark Steyn wrote this over at the Corner last night re: Palin

Quote:So Occam's Razor leaves us with: Who needs this?

In states far from the national spotlight, politics still attracts normal people. You're a mayor or a state senator or even the governor, but you lead a normal life. The local media are tough on you, but they know you, they live where you live, they're tough on the real you, not on some caricature cooked up by a malign alliance of late-night comics who'd never heard of you a week earlier and media grandees supposedly on your own side who pronounce you a "cancer".

Then suddenly you get the call from Washington. You know it'll mean Secret Service, and speechwriters, and minders vetting your wardrobe. But nobody said it would mean a mainstream network comedy host doing statutory rape gags about your 14-year old daughter. You've got a special-needs kid and a son in Iraq and a daughter who's given you your first grandchild in less than ideal circumstances. That would be enough for most of us. But the special-needs kid and the daughter and most everyone else you love are a national joke, and the PC enforcers are entirely cool with it.

Most of those who sneer at Sarah Palin have no desire to live her life. But why not try to - what's the word? - "empathize"? If you like Wasilla and hunting and snowmachining and moose stew and politics, is the last worth giving up everything else in the hopes that one day David Letterman and Maureen Dowd might decide Trig and Bristol and the rest are sufficiently non-risible to enable you to prosper in their world? And, putting aside the odds, would you really like to be the person you'd have to turn into under that scenario?

National office will dwindle down to the unhealthily singleminded (Clinton, Obama), the timeserving emirs of Incumbistan (Biden, McCain) and dynastic heirs (Bush). Our loss.

(07-03-2009 05:19 PM)OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:  Who will be the Republican Nominee in 2012?

Romney

Palin

Newt

Perry

Jindal

Huckabee

Bloomberg

Pawlenty

Bloomberg isn't a Republican, so you can take him off.

Pawlenty I think is the most likely one.

I would love it if we could have someone as articlate and intelligent as Newt but without the baggage.

(07-03-2009 05:19 PM)OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:  Who will be the Republican Nominee in 2012?

Romney

Palin

Newt

Perry

Jindal

Huckabee

Bloomberg

Pawlenty

Wow. That is a really pathetic list of candidates. Good luck winning in 2012.

(07-03-2009 09:25 PM)aTxTIGER Wrote:  I would hope not Rudy for some of his stances in the past on the National ID card. I could deal with Romney. I wouldn't work for him, but I could definitely vote for him. Other than him I don't see anyone in the list on the first two posts that I can get excited about.

Palin, Huckabee, Jindal= UGH, No, and UGH!!!

Newt, Bloomberg, and Pawlenty=Eh, maybe.

Perry= I've had to live with him as Governor. Thats enough for me.

Thompson=Didn't take full advantage of his shot in 2008. Why would it be any different in 2012?

I like Huntsman however, Obama made a great political maneuver by grabbing him as Ambassador to China.

There has to be other talent in the party that is interested in governing instead of grandstanding. I guess I just am not seeing it.

Trippy for president! Rebel for vp.

Whoever it is will be vs. Obama. Other than you, I believe everyone can point out who will be pathetic.

(Hint for the slow section: It will be the same pathetic selection the Dems put up last time.)

(07-04-2009 04:23 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(07-03-2009 05:19 PM)OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:  Who will be the Republican Nominee in 2012?

Romney

Palin

Newt

Perry

Jindal

Huckabee

Bloomberg

Pawlenty

Wow. That is a really pathetic list of candidates. Good luck winning in 2012.

How can you say any of these choices are pathetic after seeing what Obama has done in just a few months?

(07-04-2009 09:47 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(07-04-2009 04:23 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(07-03-2009 05:19 PM)OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:  Who will be the Republican Nominee in 2012?

Romney

Palin

Newt

Perry

Jindal

Huckabee

Bloomberg

Pawlenty

Wow. That is a really pathetic list of candidates. Good luck winning in 2012.

How can you say any of these choices are pathetic after seeing what Obama has done in just a few months?

THe big problem is he is trying to work with the Republicans when the Republicans don't want to work with him. THe "party of No" is the problem not the answer.

(07-04-2009 10:06 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(07-04-2009 09:47 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(07-04-2009 04:23 PM)RobertN Wrote:  

(07-03-2009 05:19 PM)OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:  Who will be the Republican Nominee in 2012?

Romney

Palin

Newt

Perry

Jindal

Huckabee

Bloomberg

Pawlenty

Wow. That is a really pathetic list of candidates. Good luck winning in 2012.

How can you say any of these choices are pathetic after seeing what Obama has done in just a few months?

THe big problem is he is trying to work with the Republicans when the Republicans don't want to work with him. THe "party of No" is the problem not the answer.

So your solution is to vote in the "party of tax and spend?"

If Rudy runs, I'm voting for him. I can't believed how badly he screwed up in 08. He didn't even make it to NC's primaries.