2008 Your Republican Dream Candidate?
posted by November 28 at 12:30 PM
onSo the Republicans are debating tonight, and I’m liveblogging tonight, and the question still lingers:
Which of these guys do you liberals of the Slog mob most want to be the Republican nominee?
Listen carefully, people: I’m not asking who you think is going to win the Republican nomination, or who you think should win the Republican nomination. I’m asking which of these guys you, the liberals of Slog, dream of seeing in a match-up with the eventual Democratic nominee.
Is it Giualiani, who offers endless opportunities for cross-dressing jokes plus the schadenfreude of watching the religious right become irrelevant to the Republican nominating process?
Is it Romney, with his Mormon issues and his flip-flopping?
Is it Thompson, just for the laughs (and the zzzzz’s)?
Is it Tancredo, with his immigration obsession and his apocalyptic warnings of terrorist infiltrators from Mexico?
Here’s a poll. Go crazy. (And please, please, tell me again how these polls aren’t scientific.)
Comments
If it's HRC, I devoutly hope it's Romney. I relish the comparison between his insipid Mormon baby-popping wife and the former first lady.
Ummm... Rudi. Cuz he does drag so bad.
NYFD hates Guiliani. I would love to see those ads.
Tancredo or Hunter, one issue crazies, Huckabee is pretty close, but Chuck Norris is not to be trifled with in the general election
I gotta admit, I was won over by the Ron Paul blimp, last seen soaring over the Shire, thus demonstrating his regard for the little people.
rudy would be an "interesting" nominee, for all the reasons mentioned above, but it would be scary as fuck if he actually won the presidency. i get chills just thinking about it even now. i can't imagine how horrifying it would be if he were that much closer to being our next president.
mccain seems to be the most civilized. paul is by far the most entertaining. i could at least sleep at night if either of them were the republican nominee.
If I were a Republican, I would vote Democrat given this bunch.
You have no idea how hard it is for me to refrain from fucking this poll up. I'm doing this for you, Eli. Because this poll is scientific!
P.S.
I swear the last poll fuck up with Edwards was not me.
I voted for Ron Paul, since the GOP deserves to have their best chance to win.
Of course, they'll still be crushed by the 6-8 foot tall Blue Wave that will dwarf 2006's 2 foot Blue Weave, but ...
(sorry, not Weave .. Wave, altho that is funny)
@9, I voted for Ron Paul for the exact opposite reason, to give them their best chance to lose.
Thompson, because he's pretty much clueless on everything.
I know it worked for Reagan, but it can't work again, can it?
Anybody but Guiliani. I can't stand the way the guy talks about 9/11.
Huckabee - he's legitimately hilarious, completely nutballs crazy, and unelectable. Hat Trick! Romney got elected in Mass so never say never to that slimeball. Remember: Gold tablets in a cave in Pennsylvania == brothers marrying sisters == Permanent World Insanity.
I voted for Giuliani because he is the worst candidate. He's a divisive figure for the Republicans. Expect the Republican equivalent of a Nader to run on the right if Giuliani gets the nomination.
I must admit, he still makes me a little nervous because stupidity and lack of qualifications don't necessarily dissuade American voters from supporting a candidate.
Oh, Ron Paul. Absolutely. I mean, come on, the guy's got a blimp!!! And Guy Fawkes, or whatever. Sure, he's crazy, but obviously the most entertaining of the batch. Who else could unite the KKK and the peacenik libtard hippies?
i can't believe i think that rudy is the most progressive out of all those people. rudy fucking giuliani.
I want Romney because I can't get enough of Mormonism. It is better than Scientology.
@17 - i know, pretty sad statement when you think about it. no wonder they'll be sent off to the wilderness for 40 years ...
Forty years is just about enough time to pay off the national debt they accrued (maybe)....
Where the hell is Alan Keyes?
Hmm... I gotta go with Fred Thompson. There's a good chance he'd get cast in a Tom Clancy movie and then give up on the whole "running for president" thing mid-way through the campaign.
Ron Paul is a racist
Soooooooooo, my wife took that "Select a candidate 2008" quiz off a link from Slog. Her first pick came back as Kucinich, but running a very close second was Gulliani. Their stance on issues is almos' indenticle.
So, either my wife's a closted repub, or Rudy's just a democrat in repub's clothing...
could you post that obviously biased link?
As I've said before, anti-war Ron Paul would keep Hillary (still, the most likely
Dem) from drifting rightward on Iraq after the primary. Also, in the unfortunate event a Repug triumphs, he's the least likely to cause World War 3.
@25:
Sure thing...
www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460
It didn't seem "obviously biased" to me. I got Mike Gravel.
Tancredo. He's even more obscure than Hunter, and much wackier (though not as wacky as the too-well-known Paul).
My criterion was to choose the Republican most likely to garner fewer than 100 electoral votes and to have the most negative coattails.
Hmm, it said Kucinich for me, but it's a bit simplistic in the questions - for example, I favor jailing CEOs and CFOs for hiring illegal workers but having a path to citizenship and think the wall is a waste of tax dollars, and I think Obama articulates my view on the Iraq War - yet it says I disagree with him on that and the Death Penalty.
At least it shows all the rankings so you can then research the "objections" to see if they matter to you.
John McCain, because my mom told me once she thought he seemed like a good guy. I mostly just want to see her proved wrong on this point.
In the year 2000, I had once wished that George W. Bush be the Republican candidate because I thought that no one in this nation would be so stupid as to vote for him, thus ensuring Gore's inevitable landslide win. Well, as you can see, I was wrong.
Ron Paul. He has no chance of winning, and I'd love to hear serious public debate about his politics. Perfect.
Yeah I went with Ron Paul too...
Why is it that every Stranger poll I click on comes back with the message "(You have already voted in this poll.)"?
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