Who would you like to see run as an independent in 2008?

[Blue-Jay]

I say Ron Paul!

No, don't get your panties in a wad... I'd rather for RuPaul than Ron Paul. I just think that he would be able to siphon away a shitload of RW voters who hate the current direction of the Republican party, but hate those "dirty hippy liberals" even more. He'd be the best spoiler since Ross Perot.

Did you ever notice on other political boards how all the Bush-voters are now calling themselves "libertarians"? They're ashamed of the big-government Republicanistas, and don't want anything to do with them anymore. I always get a good laugh out of those fake-ass bastards.

Go Ron Paul, you selfish libertarian prick! Fly like the wind!

[calimary]

1. Maybe john mccain, if rudy or somebody else gets the nomination?

Whatever works to further splinter the bad guys. Divide and Conquer! Or maybe steve forbes, to appeal to the most selfish among them.

[Blue-Jay]

4. No. McCain is done.

He was attractive to a lot of folks when he was considered to be a "maverick", but his recent forays into the world of evangelicals has soured many of his former supporters. Plus, he doesn't have the balls to split from the Republican party and run as an independent. He'll suck at the teat of "the base" until the milk runs dry.

[calimary]

5. Yeah, you're probably correct. But one can hope!

I think he'd take a few votes from the mainstreamer, if he had the ego to try. But I doubt he would. He's swallowed so much for the good of his party and his pResident, I couldn't realistically see him wanting to mess things up for the frontrunner. After all, he sure could have, against bush in 2000, and he cut 'n' ran then, too.

[Warpy]

2. Oh, ex judge Roy Moore

running on the Jesus ticket, or whatever he decided to call his new party. Anything that would split the coalition of the greedy and the lunatics would be sheer poetry to watch.

[Blue-Jay]

3. Good one, but I think Ron Paul would be more effective at splitting the vote.

The fundies love (former, disgraced) Judge Moore, but I think that Paul would be a better ticket-splitter. I know it's easy to categorize Republicans as being mostly mouth-breathing bible-thumpers, but the truth is that they are mostly selfish bastards who would prefer to destroy all social programs in order to get a few more dollars back at tax time. Money talks, Jeebus walks.

[Warpy]

6. I disagree because I think rank and file GOPs are far less likely

to desert the party once Stupid is out.

I think fundies are far more likely to desert what has become a very tenuous alliance, especially when one of their own is running.

In fact, it may happen anyway in the absence of a third party fundy candidate. Unless they run a horror like Brownback with a Cheney clone on the ticket, I doubt they're going to get the overwhelming support from the fundies that they need to get elected.

[bananarepublican]

7. Ken Starr!!! n/t