So who's your dream (ie most beatable) Republican nominee?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: So who's your dream (ie most beatable) Republican nominee?

Sort of an embarrassment of riches, really. The only one I fear at all is Romney, and he just lost in the state next to the one he just finished being governor of. Whattayathink?

Poll result (48 votes)
McCain	(7 votes, 15%)	Vote
Giuliani	(10 votes, 21%)	Vote
Thompson	(2 votes, 4%)	Vote
Huckabee	(20 votes, 42%)	Vote
Paul	(6 votes, 13%)	Vote
Romney	(3 votes, 6%)	Vote

[bunkerbuster1]

1. I'll go out on a limb and say there's no difference

Corporate sponsors will open their checkbooks for whomever is nominated by the GOP. Any/all will be tough when it comes to what counts, which is wresting the swing states.

I don't say that to discourage; all these GOP candidates are beatable.

[Lorien]

6. I think the exceptions to that are Paul and Huckabee

I don't think that they are favorites of big corporations. In fact, I think that the MSM would turn against them soon enough if either were the nominee (though Paul doesn't have a prayer of that).

[panzerfaust]

10. MSM turn against the GOP Prez-Can?!

[Lorien]

17. They "allowed" Clinton to win twice, didn't they? n/t

[bunkerbuster1]

27. You might be right about Paul.

He seems loony enough to scare Corporate America, who'd probably rather have someone more stable like, well, any Democrat!

Huckabee, I think, is as corruptible as anyone, and he'll fall into line and do as he's told if he's the candidate. He'll find a way to rationalize it and bring it into compliance with his belief system.

[NeedleCast]

2. I'd say anyone but McCain

I think the others are all flawed enough in the one or more of the major blocks of Republican voters that there'd be a lot of apathy. McCain gets some of that too, but not as much.

[Johonny]

4. IDK

The MSNBC was rolling on the floor laughing at McCain's speech last night. That's not a good sign you're a strong candidate.

[NeedleCast]

25. Problem with McCain is he has a great defense

He's a tortured war veteran. Hard to attack him without the Republican Attack Machine spinning it so that it looks like you're picking on a former POW. Fox would get so much milage out of that it would be silly. I can hear their talking heads now. "How dare (insert democratic nominee here) say that McCain is crazy for wanting to expand Gitmo? He's a veteran and ex-POW!!" Now, you know and I know it's a complete straw man, but to Dumbkin Mcdipshit on the street, they might think it's a hell of an argument. I'm must afriad that the Republicans would play the Veteran/POW card at every turn with McCain and the independents we need might buy it.

[Warpy]

3. They're all divisive, one way or another

The stingy rank and file are not going to like Hucksterbible's mixture of piety and populism. The fundies are going to loathe Rudy Garland, Mittens, and even Half Dead Fred. Keyes is only in there for comic relief and to prove they're not a bunch of pudgy, racist white guys. McCain is not beloved by fundies because of the moderate false image he cultivated for too long. A lot of military can't forgive him for playing kissy face with Stupid after Stupid trashed his military record in 2000. Paul is a libertarian and seen as an extremist in too many of his views. The PNAC will do anything to get him out of the race.

I've seen cracks in the Reagan coalition between the super rich and the super religious for about 5 years now. This is the election that will turn them into chasms, no matter who gets the nod.

[FSogol]

5. all of the above? n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. mccain or guiliani, because honestly even if the dem loses i could handle either of those two being

president.

i dont like them, but they are not completely nuts.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. I could only see McCain as the trickier opponent

The rest would be put away by a Democratic candidate without much difficulty (unless there's some major scandal).

Even so, I think the Democratic candidate would beat McCain over the long campaign.

[Marr]

9. Huckabee, because the establishment doesn't want him.

Put Hillary Clinton up against Huckabee and they'll install her the way they installed GW Bush. It won't actually be a victory of course, but it might look like one for awhile.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. If any of the Democrats can't beat any of them, they should take up something challenging.

Like solo arm-wrestling.

[L. Coyote]

12. McCain, for his role in covering up Abramoff and for huge gaming funding

McCain looks like an Abramoff clone, if you look at the Indian gaming money flowing his way.

McCain was in charge of the Republican-controlled investigation into Abramoff just before the 2004 vote.
He saved Bush by keeping the lid on until after the 2004 vote. In my book, he is a made member of the Corrupt Bastards Club.

[L. Coyote]

13. Huckabee, if he will debate creationism for a national audience. That would be history

in the making -- a yet-to-evolve southern, fundamentalist preacher telling America and the world the are wrong to believe in science.
It might begin the complete unraveling of religious belief system credibility once and for all.

[helderheid]

14. Mittens

[L. Coyote]

15. Thompson, because he has the highest odds of falling asleep during a debate

even if he is talking at the time.

On edit, forgot the rofl.

[lame54]

16. Oh, I thought you meant beat with sticks - that's very different...

Never mind

[L. Coyote]

18. Giuliani, as the most Bush like, except without good hair.

[L. Coyote]

19. Romney, as the likeliest to cause a third-party Christian schism from the Corrupt Bastards

At some point, all the good Christians are going to want to burn some crooks at the stake in the public square.
It's just the fundamentalist thing to do, after taking a real raping from the Corrupt Bastards Club.
Intolerance and criminality are such a bad mix, it just has to explode in someone's face.

[bryant69]

20. Paul cause he's a Neo-Confederate - and they need to be humiliated.

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[L. Coyote]

21. Ron Paul, as the likeliest to give Dems a 50 State Victory.

[L. Coyote]

22. Who did I forget? Oh yeah, Cheney, for announcing while being impeached.

You never know when up is down and down is up

[Bossy Monkey]

23. What ever happened to Condi Rice '08? n/t

[L. Coyote]

26. Price per gallon? She was Chevron Board in previous life.

[mnhtnbb]

24. I vote Thompson most beatable. Worried about the Huckster

because it will make the right wing come out from under their rocks!