Which GOPU Candidate Would Be Most Difficult To Beat And Why?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[MadBadger]

1. Guiliani scares me the most

Its his attraction to moderate voters in Ohio, PA, and Florida who only see 9/11 and the America's Mayor Bullshit

[JerseygirlCT]

33. Yes, it's really important to show his Bush side -- that is, his tendency

toward totalitarianism and petulance.

All the pretty stuff New Yorkers got to see.

And can someone please explain to me why being mayor during 9-11 has somehow made HIM a hero?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Tend To Say Rudy Because He's So Unlike What We Are Accustomed To Running Against

Thompson is a warmed over Bush...

[wuushew]

3. you didn't include all the GOP choices

I say Mitt, because he has very very deep pockets

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Because I Am Fairly Confident It Will Be One Of Those Four

I am also fairly confident our nominee will be Clinton, Obama, or Edwards...

[H2O Man]

4. None of the above.

Those are the easy ones.

Of them, probably Rudy could make the toughest fight, though.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. huckster is the most electable of the group.

rudi is an egostitical idiot.

[H2O Man]

23. Some of my

republican friends have expressed frustration that the Huckster's name will keep him from being nominated by the rigid, narrow-minded party. That said, he is the most capable of their candidates as far as delivering a message.

Rudi is a strange man. He had earned a reputation when he was a federal prosecutor, and seemed at first like he was doing some good as the mayor of NYC. But he fell apart, and not just in his family life. The national stage was too much for him. But I could see him being a problem in a number of states. Still, any of the good democrats should blister him if he emerges from the republican slime.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Some People Are Telling Me I Need To Fear Arthur Branch,errrr Fred Thompson

eom

[H2O Man]

14. Old Fred

is not, in my opinion, going to be their candidate. He has the backing of some neoconservative forces, but many in the party are not interested in their newest puppet. I'd put his chances as about equal to Walt Frazier to be the NBA's MVP in 2008.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

35. fred is a great lure.

there are thinkers, and there are thinkers

what better place to be, other than in the spot where you sell a potential GREAT candidate, and they pay you,
and you start to search for a person, and they pay you
and you find someone, just to the left side of ridiculous, and they pay you,
and because you flash a wad, they pay you,
and because you flash a wad at the candidate, they pay you,

and you come up with Ole Fred.

and you have been paid.

[KittyWampus]

7. Huckabee. Cause he's for Creation Care (the Environment) and is actually charming in a

folksy way. REALLY.

And yes, I know his appalling voting record.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. I Agree....

I have to make myself dislike him... With all the other GOOPERS it's comes naturally...

[TwilightGardener]

16. Nothing says "charming" like declaring the Iraq war a "theological war" against Islam.

Very charming, indeed.

[KittyWampus]

18. like I said, I KNOW his record.

[TwilightGardener]

22. You know he thinks we are fighting the Christian Crusades, and you

find that charming? How is he any better than Bush--another mediocre "compassionate conservative" mediocre governor who believes God wants him to be Preznit? Ohh, wait--Huckster's cool on the Daily Show. I guess that's all it takes.

[H2O Man]

27. I don't think

it was meant to imply any sense of agreement with him. It was in recognition of his ability to get his message across in a way that many voters would find "charming."

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. He's Very Wrong On The Issues...

We know that...

It's just his personality that is appealing...

Sometimes you can like the person and dislike his politics and in some cases you can dislike the person's poltics and like the person...

He reminds me of my the minister who baptized me as a fifteen year old... I would never, never vote for him for president but I still remember him fondly as a person...

[TwilightGardener]

26. Well..good for you. Anyone who supports the war is an immoral asshole in my book--case closed.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

30. Duly Noted

[JerseygirlCT]

Yup. He scares me the most too. He's slick, really slick.

Comes across as just folks and oh so moderate. Genuine, and caring.

Which is all bs, given his far right positions.

But we've seen all too well how many people are easily fooled. So he frightens me.

[Capn Sunshine]

9. Thompson beause the GOP says he's the second coming of Reagan

he's got that same jokey quality that caused me to underestimate Reagan AND Bush.
Never again. Watch him like a hawk.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Reagan Had The Benefit Of Running In A Very Favorable Political Environment

Thompson won't have that...

Plus Reagan had a much more appealing visage and was comfortable in any melieu...Thompson only looks like he would be comfortable at a fish fry...

[gateley]

10. Romney, because he's so squeaky clean, has seen the light and repented for

previous views, is movie star handsome -- just the whole Republican package. Doesn't matter what his record is, that's always open to revision which the R's eat up and swallow.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. I say Thompson because he'll have all the Neocon machinery behind him.

Also he's got those acting skills. Rudy will have trouble hanging onto the base with his anti-gun & pro-abortion history, Romney's a Mormon (which will also present a problem for him with the drooling snake-handler Fundies), & McCain is old, damaged goods. He's got himself to invested in the war, plus carrying around the old Rove bullshit from 2000 (black child, screw loose from the Vietnam rabbit cages, etc.).

Ain't none of them gonna win, though, unless something really weird happens in the next 13+ months.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. I Have Been Thinking

Is it the political environment or the candidate?

Was there really any chance Hoover would be re-elected in 1932 or Jimmy Carter in 1980?

[TheWraith]

15. Huckabee.

He's a real live conservative who can drive the evangelicals to the polls, unlike gay-friendly Giuliani or "cultist" Romney. And unlike some of the people like Brownback, Huckabee comes off as being personable and charismatic, not the knuckle-dragging savage that most of his competitors are.

Besides that, Huckabee is actually not a bad sort of politician. Under any other circumstances, I'd say he's one of the better Republicans out there, somebody you could like even if you don't agree with him. Unfortunately, Shrub has dragged the party so far down the road to hell that "good Republican" has become oxymoronic.

[TwilightGardener]

19. Hunh? He's a pandering warmonger who believes that the earth is

6000 years old--how is that NOT knuckle-dragging?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. As I Said Up Thread I Have To Make Myself Dislike Him

With most GOOPERS it comes naturally...

And he's very, very conservative...

[TwilightGardener]

24. How is he better than Chimpy? What am I missing here? He is such a fake, he

makes me physically ill.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. I Don't Think He Is Fake... I Think He Is Sincerely Wrong....

eom

[TwilightGardener]

29. Totally fake and insincere. He's trying the McCain plan--get the lefties

to fall for him by showing up on TDS and Maher, spout some nonsense about "I'm the MAIN STREET Republican" blah blah, play an instrument like Clinton--he's stealing from old playbooks. He actually said at the last Fox debate that he would have to balance the Constitution against his conscience---HUH???? Fucking scary dude, and dumb as a stump.

[MonkeyFunk]

21. I agree

Huckabee would be the best candidate for them in the general election. Luckily, it seems he's going nowhere, but he DOES have a chance.

[TwilightGardener]

31. Rooody, still--Romney a close second. Can't kill Rudy--he's

like a freaking robot that keeps going.

[rjones2818]

32. Paul!

His message resonates with the base. Get the government off of OUR (the base's) backs. Rid us of the IRS. Get us out of the war. Rid us of the fed. Pass laws against the abortionists and gays. Etc.

The sad thing is he's the best one of them.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. I'd Love To Run Against Ron Paul

Even though he's probably close to us on social issues he would be the easiet to pigeonhole...

[Greeby]

42. The thing about Ron Paul is

Sure he'd end the war on day 1, but on day 2 he'd be throwing your momma off Social Security.

[cboy4]

36. I DON'T vote for Republicans....even in harmless

DU polls!!! ;)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. Ha

I had a "who was the worst Republican president?" poll....


Would you have voted in that?

[cboy4]

38. LOL. Good point. Although is there really a debate who the worst

one is?

;)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. I Think Bush Won Walking Away

He left Hoover, Nixon, and Reagan in the dust...

A couple of people wrote in Grant but I can't bring myself to criticize somebody so obviously well intentioned...

[cboy4]

41. "He left Hoover, Nixon, and Reagan in the dust..."

*snort*

For some reason, that's hysterical!

And for the record, but me down for Bush lol

[nam78_two]

39. Guiliani.nt