Which Republican Presidential candidate do you want in the 2008 General Election?

[LiberalFighter]

Poll question: Which Republican Presidential candidate do you want in the 2008 General Election?

Their current age is in parentheses.
Number of marriages in brackets.

[skipos]

1. 1st Romney, 2nd Newt, 3rd McCain

Romney wouldn't win his homestate,(right or wrong) his religion will lose him many votes, and he is a dedicated flip flopper.

Newt has fav/unfavs, "would you vote for/ not vote for"s and other numbers that are even worse than Hillary's.

McCain still polls pretty well, but I think he is steadily losing it.

[Killarney]

2. Definitely Romney.

The Mormon thing won't fly. We would DEFINITELY beat him.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I picked "doesn't matter", because they all have their strengths and

weaknesses, but none of them will win, imo.

[saltpoint]

4. I'd prefer that the Republican Party dissolve. Or at least concede the

election.

Also I want at least 10 more seats in the Senate and another 75 in the House.

The Republicans, to my delight, can't decide among their crop of incompetents and zombies which should be the consensus candidate.

I hope they rip the flesh from each other's bones between now and the Iowa caucus.

Sam Brownback strikes me as more nominatable --is that a word?--than Giuliani or McCain. I'm just not seeing Giuliani surviving the nomination process after closer scrutiny from his GOP opponents' ads, and with nothing more than his 9/11 bullhorn to boost his image as a "hero."

McCain's appeal to independents is almost gone. Mike Gravel would kick McCain's butt at this point. And properly so.

Romney is pure creepshow. He strikes me as a really weird guy. Unsettlingly odd and off-key. And while he's done fairly well here and there, he's not exactly setting the party faithful ablaze with enthusiasm.

Fred Thompson might jump in, but he just doesn't seem to be all that persuasive. Thompson's interest in the race is a gauge of how little interest there is in McCain, since Thompson was McCain's campaign coordinator in 2000.

Newt will excite a lot of college Republican-types but he's not going to win Michigan, Ohio, New York, California, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, and so on -- states he'd need to flip to win the presidency. We'll whip him like a rented mule. He'd have to fight for Georgia, IMO.

The 2008 election is going to give us a Democrat in the White House.

[Ruzicka Nemchinov]

8. Unless Hillary is the nomination

Then that will put a Repuke in the WH, it will happen. Mark it on your calendars

[saltpoint]

10. Welcome to DU, Ruzicka Nemchinov.

It's hard to say what will happen.

I believe Senator Clinton may be stronger as the nominee than she is as a primary candidate.

There is so much time still between now and 2008.

[melody]

5. Romney would be easiest to beat n/t

[illinoisprogressive]

6. Romney will get the sh** kicked out of him by any of our lineup

[Forkboy]

7. McCain,because Romney is a craftier shitweasel.

[The Gunslinger]

9. Dont know if any of them are going to win the primary anyhow

I will not be convinced Jeb is not running until it is too late for him to run.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Giuliani.

He is an empty suit with a horde of skeletons in his closet waiting to appear in attack ads.