Saturday, July 17, 2010
Beyond Palin: Assessing the Rest of the GOP Presidential Field
Time magazine looks into republican nominees for 2012 Beyond Palin: Assessing the Rest of the GOP Presidential Field . I'm fairly certain that Palin will not be on the ticket in 2012; her 15 minutes of fame were up 3 hours ago and now I wish she had been beheaded instead of that innocent turkey. Also, I think anyone with close religious ties doesn't have a shot in hell to make the ticket as the republican nominee, thereby eliminating my guy Mitt and Huckabee as well as various others. While I would wholeheartedly support a ticket that places Conde as the republican nominee (not mentioned in the article), I still believe that neither the Republican party nor the United States as a whole are ready for a woman president. Any woman that runs in the next 20 years is going to join the ranks with Hillary as another sacrificial lamb. Rice knows this and so does any politically minded woman who is a "serious human being." Jeb Bush is out...his brother took care of that one. Some of the other potential republican candidates may have a shot, but I don't think this article is all that serious. I think Time is throwing out names to test the waters. While most of you are vying for four more years of Obama, it doesn't hurt to think in the abstract. So, does anyone out there have any names they want to throw in the pot??? Perhaps, (even though I don't think Obama is going to run in 2012) you would like to see Obama (or whomever else is the democratic presidential candidate) debate? In other words, who are your ideal candidates for 2012?
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Didn't read the article but Mitch has kept himself clean and I think has a good shot. I expect him to begin national exposure in early 2011.
Bush 43 has pretty much put a huge hole in my "governors make good presidents" theory. That being said, I think Haley Barbour could have a fairly significant resume, assuming that he's had above-the-mean success with dealing with both Katrina and Deepwater Horizon.
I don't think the country's ready for another Southern governor, though.
I really like Daniels, incidentally, but I think he's too sane to run.
I think Pawlenty is the best candidate for the Republicans. He was the governor of a fairly liberal state and seems to be above most of the insanity that comes out of the teabagger crowd. That being said, he almost assuredly not be nominated.
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That being said, he almost assuredly will not be nominated.
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