Which Republican candidate would be the dirtiest fighter, were he to get the nod?

[mtnsnake]

IOW, which one of the choices below do you think would use the most negative (dirty) campaign tactics against our candidate?

Personally, I think it would be Giuliani, and I also think that this is why that jerkoff is so appealing to his people right now. They thrive on the negative.

Whoever it is, we need to be prepared for them well in advance so our nominee will be ready to kick some Republican ass.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'd say it would be a tie between Giuliani and Gingrich.

Newtie is a snake.

[mtnsnake]

8. Hey, careful now, friend!

Newtie is a snake

:mad:

O8)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Oh, sorry. No offense to actual snakes intended.

Newtie is really more of a slime mold.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. Well, OK, but a slime mold with

scales, fangs and venom.

[mtnsnake]

21. Thanks...

BTW, I like your handle. Ocelots are one of the most beautiful animals in the world. Unfortunately, they're on the verge of extinction in this country, which is one more reason why we need to be prepared in advance to kick Republican ass in 2008...so we can make sure that the newly elected Democratic president re-instates all of the environmental laws that were in place during the Clinton administraion, but which Bush rolled back for his pals when he took office. There's a reason why environmentalists like Kerry, Gore, and most Democrats for that matter, are so interested in saving what's left. It's because there won't be a thing left if Republicans get their way.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Right on. Ocelots forever!

[bklyncowgirl]

27. Romney--the man apparently has no principals aside from doing what he needs to get elected.

Newt at least can be linked to a certain set of policies.

Romney, I believe is the chosen candidate of those people who brought us George W. Bush.

[BOSSHOG]

2. I voted for their family values candidate, gingrich but

I'll give an honorable mention to tom tancredo, mr hateful motherfucker himself. If only inhofe would throw his hat into the ring.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Newt's the obvious answer. He's responsible for the modern partisan divide.

It was Gingrich's GOPAC memo "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control" that encouraged the rising GOP in the mid-1990s to refer to the Democrats as "traitors," "thieves," etc. that led to today's heavily partisan divide. A world without Gingrich would be a happier, more peaceful, more decent place.

Language: A Key Mechanism of Control":
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1276

[Zenlitened]

15. I agree. So much of what's wrong in America today can be laid directly...

... at Gingrich's cloven feet.

That man is such a disgusting, repulsive slime. He has not a single redeeming feature about him. Nothing.

Oh, but wait... he's "right with Gawd" now...

:puke:

[ccpup]

4. what?

no "all of the above"?

[natrat]

5. romney cuz he's so sleazey

[vi5]

6. Gingrich would be worst because he'd have more support...

Being pro-choice, pro-gay, and anti-gun Gulliani has less of a group of positions to attack the dem candidate on other than the "weak on terror/crime" cannard. And as such he'll also have less enthusiastic support and back up from all those wonderful family values christians who make up the base of the repub party. I mean think about how much attack ammunition has been expended towards dem candidates in the past on just those 3 issues alone. "They'll use your tax dollars to pay for abortions....they'll allow gays to marry....they'll take away your guns!!" Oh rly? Rudy boy is in favor of doing all those things.

Gingrich on the other hand would attack on all those fronts and have the enthusiastic backing of the base as well.

[Czolgosz]

7. Romney has the Swiftboat team on board as well as Bush's guys who smeared McCain in 2000

Giuliani will be on the receiving end of the nastiest primary campaign in Repub party history.

[Virginia Dare]

10. True, I hadn't thought about that..

Romney will travel the country as the mild mannered Mormon while his "team" slings shit from behind the curtain. You're right, it's gonna be dirty indeed.

[Virginia Dare]

9. Giuliani, with Newty a close second...n/t

[mtnsnake]

11. Looks like I underestimated Newt's potential to be the dirtiest campaigner of the lot

Maybe seeing so much of Rudy's arrogant and chippy side the last few years has made me forget about how much of a rat Newt can be. I don't know.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. Gingrich. I think he's already shown his willingness to fight

down and dirty with his participation in the movement to impeach Clinton.

[meldroc]

13. Gingrich, with Giuliani being a solid second.

Newt in particular is a total psychopath. This is the guy who wailed on Clinton's affair with Monica while having an affair himself, and he's the one who served his first wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital, pumped full of painkillers, recovering from cancer surgery. He's the champion of psychopaths.

Giuliani is only a slight improvement.

The Republicans have historically went off on how character counts in a Presidential candidate. For once, I agree with them...

[tandot]

16. There will be no election. Bush will use the recess to appoint himself as King of America

[mnhtnbb]

17. The Dem who gets the nomination better have plenty of snakebite anti-venom on hand

These guys are all poisonous.

[TnDem]

18. No Fred Thompson?

I think the lack of even having Fred Thompson in the choices shows how totally out of touch we are with what the pugs choices will probably be.

Not that Thompson would probably be that dirty of a campaigner anyway should he run and win...I would say that Newt Grinch-rich would probably win that category.

[Buck Laser]

19. Gingrich--the dirtiest man alive...no contest

[A Simple Game]

23. Ok, I admit it. I felt sorry for McCain and voted for him.

I my defense, McCain saw first hand in 2000 what dirty campaigning can do to an opponent.

He does seem willing to sacrifice any and all principles he may have to win.

[mtnsnake]

24. LOL

Leave it to you! :evilgrin:

Actually, I don't think anyone should underestimate McCain's potential in the "nasty" department, or any of them for that matter. McCain can be a real vicious asshole when he wants to be, too.

[TwilightGardener]

25. I voted for Mitt--his nice-guy image belies a CEO ruthless-bastard

mentality. Nobody picked Hagel? He might be a street fighter--he's another CEO ruthless-bastard.

[Forkboy]

26. Romney...easily.Newt is predictable and known,and will never appeal to more than the 35%

Romney is sneakier than a weasel that grew up watching Mission Impossible on an endless loop.Trust me on this...Romney is the scariest Repub running by far!

[blm]

28. They don't HAVE to - corporate media does it FOR THEM.

Did you ever see Bush lift a finger to do his dirty work?