Who will be the GOP nominee in 2012

[Politics_Guy25]

Who do you think the GOP nominee will be in 2012 if you had to guess? At this point I'm thinking a battle royale between Romney and Huckabee (right wing versus pragmatic arm of the party) Both will be easy victories for President Obama. The lady who can see Russia from her house is done and finished.

[MadBadger]

1. WHile you still have the time, edit out Coleman and replace with Jindal

[Politics_Guy25]

3. Thanks Hnmnf-forgot about him-n/t

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Mittens, more than likely

The corporatist wing of the GOP is going to eventually win out over the religious reichers.

[political_Dem]

4. Huckabee because he's folksy, charismatic and dangerous.

He is everything that Bobby Jindal is not.

[CreekDog]

5. i'm trying to figure out who they have left

[elocs]

6. If this were post election in 2004, who would say Obama would be our nominee in 2008?

It's only guessing.

[lligrd]

7. Rush Limbaugh nt

[Jack Bone]

8. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. from Utah nt

[704wipes]

9. Jeb, no doubt in my mind

Send McCain out this year and then they don't steal it for him. That was probably why the Rove team took over the campaign in the summer, to make sure McCain did not win. Now they are crashing the economy to a low that no one could bring back in four years and who knows what poison pills and time bombs they are leaving behind? Then in 2012 a lot of hoopla, PR and outright propaganda that another Bush Miracle is what we need, and Jeb is their boy.

[snake in the grass]

16. I highly doubt...

...that a Bush will ever be POTUS again. That name is equivalent to shit.

[dysfunctional press]

17. i sure hope so...

the bush name is going to be political poison for quite some time.

[tekisui]

25. LOL! No B*sh will ever be President again. Never.

[Life Long Dem]

10. Try concentrating on 2008

[camera obscura]

11. I voted for Pawlenty

Palin is going to burn out too fast... I can't see Jindal passing the primary season, too much of the base that just wouldn't feel comfortable voting for a POC. Jeb Bush carries the tainted name. Crist would face a smear campaign that'd bring him down quick. Romney hasn't gained a lot of new fans. Huckabee is old news.

Unless something crazy happens between now and then, I think it'll be Pawlenty. He could take the most important primaries easy: he governs a state close to IA, "maverick" NHites will like the fact that he's not a creeper or a psycho fundie, old people in FL will be non-threatened by him. Of course SC will go to Huckabee or whoever the Southerner in the race is and NV will go to Romney.

Plus, he's a dorky white guy, the GOP's bread and butter, and the big namers will be too busy tearing each other apart to attack him.

[Trajan]

12. The Huckster ...

If only because he doesnt seem to be easy to buy .... I doubt he wants anyone to buy his wife a new fur coat or anything like that ....

He will be the last one standing ...

[Phredicles]

13. The brain-deads love Sarah P., and the brain-deads are the core of

what's left of the Ghastly Old Party.

[Undercurrent]

14. What a line up!

Another Bush, a whack job, a nutty preacher, a Mormon, a closet gay, a boring guy, a Jew, and an exorcist.

Of course there's nothing wrong with a Jewish or gay president, in fact it would be great of it were the right person, but I can't fathom the Repugs going there. At all.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

15. I still think it will be Sarah

The jackass base still adores her and thinks she's a cure-all to their problems. They're completely ignorant of the fact that she has no credibility with anyone outside of the GOP die-hards.

[Colobo]

18. I think Mitt will get it.

[juajen]

19. Sarah Palin wins every pug poll by large margins.

I personally think it will be Palin/Jindal.

[davidpdx]

20. Jindal

I don't think Barracuda Sarah can hack it on the big stage.

[DCBob]

21. Eric Cantor

R-VA

[DFW]

22. Unless Obama scews up royally

It will not matter who the Republican nominee is. It will be a nomination given
for ceremonial purposes, sort of like Bob Dole in 1996, or Walter Mondale in 1984.
Therefore, I give it to none of the above. The only reason I don't say Palin is
that the Republicans don't want to embarrass themselves where no one will take their
next presidential nominee seriously (i.e. 2016). Otherwise, they'd pick her for
sheer entertainment value. I know political satirists would welcome the business, and
she'd probably get contributions from everyone from The Daily Show to The Freedom Toast
(OK, maybe not, but they'd certainly love the free material). The DNC would also appreciate
the diminished need for fundraising and expenditure.

[saltpoint]

23. I expect that Barack Obama will have 2 terms.

The Republicans are a depleted bunch right now. They have not been this sorry-looking in who knows how long, and if Obama's first term is as effective as I think it will be, the GOP nominee is going to be a perfunctory pick.

Romney has the bucks and the ambition but his faith and creepiness are off-putting. Consider the hefty leads he lost in both Iowa and New Hampshire last winter.

Huckabee has the snake-oil charm but he couldn't even polish off John McCain for the GOP nomination this time. He barely defeated Sam Brownback in the Iowa caucus.

I'm not seeing Sarah Palin running an effective campaign for the nomination from her remote outpost in the tundra. I also think Romney and Huckabee and likely others will tear her to bits in the early debates and further diminish the rationale for her nomination. She's not just uninformed, she's willfully ignorant, which is a more serious transgression against the idea of public service.

I think Thune holds onto his rising-star status in the Senate and Rob Portman goes for an Ohio statewide office of one sort or another, possibly Voinovich's seat.

IMO the Bush brand will be less palatable in 2010 and 2012 than it is now, and now it's pretty unpalatable. Bad news for Jeb.

Pawlenty and Jindal have no national profiles and questionable abilities to build one. I don't see Jindal anywhere near the Republican ticket in 2012. Pawlenty maybe, but to date there doesn't seem to be much of a constituency to support the idea.

At the moment anyway, it appears that the GOP nomination contest for 2012 may be an alley fight between Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. I set Huckabee as a slight favorite.

[Ozma]

24. Obama can win against any of the people on that short list! So...

I don't really care who it is.

[blue_onyx]

26. I week or two ago, I would've said Romney

but I voted for Huckabee. When Romney said that we should let the US auto companies go bankrupt, he said goodbye to winning his "home state" of Michigan, as well as Ohio, Indiana, and probably Pennsylvania (the rust belt is where his "strength" on the economy would worked). Huckabee will do well with the conservative base of the Republican party and he is fairly likable so he won't turn people off the way Palin did this year.

[ecstatic]

27. Huckabee--I'm glad folks are paying attention. He has his own show

now and is very dangerous because he is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I'm as partisan as it gets, yet I found myself being able to listen to him (expecially when he tried to bond with people over the weight issue--which I also had at one point in my life). I thought we needed to watch him closely for 2008 but he wasn't ready for primetime then. In 4 years he will be.