Republican Nomination for President

Who would you vote for to run for President from the Republican Party?

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#51
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GAVol said:
It'll never happen.
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Agreed. Highly improbable. If the GOP nominates a canidate like Romney and Paul runs as a libertarian, I think he could eclipse Perot's 18.9% popular vote. If so, Obama wins easily by plurality.
 
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PKT_VOL said:
Agreed. Highly improbable. If the GOP nominates a canidate like Romney and Paul runs as a libertarian, I think he could eclipse Perot's 18.9% popular vote. If so, Obama wins easily by plurality.
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Pretty much. Paul running as the GOP candidate is the only option that they GOP has to beat Obama. If Romney, Cain, Perry or Newt are the front runners, then You will most certainly have votes bleeding over from "Candidate X" to Ron Paul.

There's no way the GOP will get >50% of the vote with any of the other clowns. (Huntsman is a wild card in all of this, though).
 
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Rasputin_Vol said:
If Herman Cain can't survive a scandal like this, how the heck will Newt? :unsure:
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I think the difference is that we keep learning about Cain's alleged skeletons whereas we already know all of (I say that carefully) Newt's baggage.
 
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Really surprised at Gingrich's turnaround.
First most of his staff left him early on, then the revelations of the money he received as basicly a lobbyist and his own personal demons after resigning as House Speaker when he had a mistress. If he gets the nomination, I don't know if he can withstand all that personal baggage. Even though Obama has a terrible record to run on.
 
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oklavol said:
Really surprised at Gingrich's turnaround.
First most of his staff left him early on, then the revelations of the money he received as basicly a lobbyist and his own personal demons after resigning as House Speaker when he had a mistress. If he gets the nomination, I don't know if he can withstand all that personal baggage. Even though Obama has a terrible record to run on.
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All his personal baggage is out there. He has also shown that he has no problems answering pointed questions about said baggage. If he wins the nomination, I think it would be dangerous for Team Obama to pound Newt with negative ads about his baggage because it will open the door to reminder about all of Obama's unknowns. He doesn't have baggage, he has questions.
 
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nbakerld said:
For crying out loud, the party is a joke if this guy was a front-runner. He couldn't even tell you his foreign policy plan, but he knows he wants to be secretary of defense.

Military Expert Herman Cain Would Like to Be Secretary of Defense - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
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what should the party have done? Kick him out of the nominating process as soon as he began rising in the polls?

I agree that the GOP is a joke, but not because Herman Cain tried, and failed, to be it's 2012 nominee.
 
#63
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MG1968 said:
what should the party have done? Kick him out of the nominating process as soon as he began rising in the polls?

I agree that the GOP is a joke, but not because Herman Cain tried, and failed, to be it's 2012 nominee.
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It's not that he tried and failed, it's that he was a terrible candidate and he was succeeding only until a scandal came about.
 
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That is a slight against Romney, not Herman Cain. Just think, we've had the likes of Donald Trump, Michelle Bachman, Cain and Newt Gingrich get more bounce than the media darling and heavily financed Mitt Romney. This guy is supposed to be the heir apparent?
 
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Rudy Giuliani on Mitt Romney: 'There's something wrong' - latimes.com

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As he asserted earlier this week on CNN, Giuliani suggested Gingrich might do better with so-called “Reagan Democrats,” working-class voters who typically don’t align themselves with conservatives. Why? Because, while Romney may be more in step with those moderates politically, he’s an elitist, Giuliani said—and Gingrich can speak their language.
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:lolabove:
 
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If it's anything Guiliani knows, it's how to nab demographics and run a campaign.

Oh wait, I was reading the note at the bottom of this gentleman jack bottle.
 
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I like Gingrich, he talks the issues better then anyone and he was a very good Leader of the House in the 90's, but the man has more baggage then any candidate since Bill Clinton. Tough to overcome.
 
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Gingrich is smarter than a wiz. I mean for crying out loud downing the man for his baggage is uncalled for. The past is unchangeable, but a regret or decision is lifelong. And if you were to vote Obama over him you will regret that decision for the rest of your life.
 
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dembewbs said:
Gingrich is smarter than a wiz. I mean for crying out loud downing the man for his baggage is uncalled for. The past is unchangeable, but a regret or decision is lifelong. And if you were to vote Obama over him you will regret that decision for the rest of your life.
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Gingrich is smart yes, ethical not so much.
 
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dembewbs said:
Gingrich is smarter than a wiz. I mean for crying out loud downing the man for his baggage is uncalled for. The past is unchangeable, but a regret or decision is lifelong. And if you were to vote Obama over him you will regret that decision for the rest of your life.
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Nobel prize winner Milton Friedman said that Richard Nixon was the most academically capable politician that he ever met (and having worked with like 5 presidential administrations, he had met a lot of politicians). Obama's also supposed to be pretty smart. The guys who think they know everything are the dangerous ones. They have a "fix" for everything and inevitably end up screwing us over.
 
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