Ages of Republican candidates in 2012 and 2016

[LiberalFighter]

68 -- 72 -- Rudy Guilani
56 -- 60 -- Sam Brownback
63 -- 67 -- Jim Gilmore
57 -- 61 -- Mike Huckabee
64 -- 69 -- Duncan Hunter
65 -- 69 -- Mitt Romney
67 -- 71 -- Tom Tancredo
70 -- 74 -- Fred Thompson
71 -- 75 -- Tommy Thompson


59 -- 63 -- Jeb Bush
69 -- 73 -- Newt Gingrich
66 -- 70 -- Chuck Hagel
65 -- 69 -- Haley Barbour
56 -- 60 -- Charlie Crist
41 -- 45 -- Bobby Jindal
51 -- 55 -- Tim Pawlenty
58 -- 62 -- Carly Fiorina
65 -- 69 -- Mel Martinez
69 -- 73 -- Kay Bailey Hutchinson

[Bicoastal]

1. One election at a time, K?

[LiberalFighter]

2. Pointing out that many of them will not be candidates and their pickins will be slim

[Bicoastal]

3. Hmm, well none of us saw George W. Bush coming in 1996.

I'm sure there'll be some other "rising star" in the GOP by then.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. hopefully the Republican party has been disbanded by then?

[LiberalFighter]

8. Hopefully, or in total disarray

[RollWithIt]

5. Charlie Crist...

Nothing else makes sense for them. Of course, because that pick makes sense, they will automatically not pick him.

[dubeskin]

Of course. Leave it to the Republicans to defy defiance of logic.

Or defy the defiance of defying logic. Whatever.

Whoever their nominee is, IT won't beat Barack Obama, and we'll see Obama win a 2nd term, just the way it's all been planned.

[CalGator]

6. Martinez is ineligible.

He was born in Cuba, thus not eligible for the Presidency. It doesn't seem that core Republicans are too high on him anyhow.

Hagel probably won't be running since he might well be part of O's cabinet.

Surprised Palin was left off the list, since she is pretty high profile now. Of course, once the SS McCain goes down on Nov 4 she won't have much of a realistic shot for national office again.

[StevieM]

7. I think Romney is the early favorite for 2012....who knows about 2016, that's a long way off (eom)