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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Your Republican Dream Candidate?

posted by on November 28 at 12:30 PM

So 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.)

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1

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.

Posted by annie | November 28, 2007 12:30 PM
2

Ummm... Rudi. Cuz he does drag so bad.

Posted by Madge-YoursoakingINIT! | November 28, 2007 12:31 PM
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NYFD hates Guiliani. I would love to see those ads.

Posted by DOUG. | November 28, 2007 12:35 PM
4

Tancredo or Hunter, one issue crazies, Huckabee is pretty close, but Chuck Norris is not to be trifled with in the general election

Posted by vooodooo84 | November 28, 2007 12:35 PM
5

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.

Posted by NapoleonXIV | November 28, 2007 12:37 PM
6

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.

Posted by brandon | November 28, 2007 12:43 PM
7

If I were a Republican, I would vote Democrat given this bunch.

Posted by laterite | November 28, 2007 12:44 PM
8

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.

Posted by Mr. Poe | November 28, 2007 12:47 PM
9

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 ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 28, 2007 12:49 PM
10

(sorry, not Weave .. Wave, altho that is funny)

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 28, 2007 12:58 PM
11

@9, I voted for Ron Paul for the exact opposite reason, to give them their best chance to lose.

Posted by Giffy | November 28, 2007 1:04 PM
12

Thompson, because he's pretty much clueless on everything.

I know it worked for Reagan, but it can't work again, can it?

Posted by K | November 28, 2007 1:11 PM
13

Anybody but Guiliani. I can't stand the way the guy talks about 9/11.

Posted by Ryan | November 28, 2007 1:12 PM
14

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.

Posted by wbrproductions | November 28, 2007 1:25 PM
15

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.

Posted by Mahtli69 | November 28, 2007 1:27 PM
16

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?

Posted by SDA in SEA | November 28, 2007 1:28 PM
17

i can't believe i think that rudy is the most progressive out of all those people. rudy fucking giuliani.

Posted by and | November 28, 2007 1:29 PM
18

I want Romney because I can't get enough of Mormonism. It is better than Scientology.

Posted by Mike in MO | November 28, 2007 1:47 PM
19

@17 - i know, pretty sad statement when you think about it. no wonder they'll be sent off to the wilderness for 40 years ...

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 28, 2007 1:48 PM
20

Forty years is just about enough time to pay off the national debt they accrued (maybe)....

Posted by NapoleonXIV | November 28, 2007 1:58 PM
21

Where the hell is Alan Keyes?

Posted by Nat | November 28, 2007 1:59 PM
22

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.

Posted by Frank | November 28, 2007 2:02 PM
23

Ron Paul is a racist

Posted by kkl327 | November 28, 2007 2:04 PM
24

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...

Posted by Hal | November 28, 2007 2:25 PM
25

could you post that obviously biased link?

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 28, 2007 2:28 PM
26

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.

Posted by butterw | November 28, 2007 2:33 PM
27

@25:
Sure thing...

www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460

It didn't seem "obviously biased" to me. I got Mike Gravel.

Posted by Hal | November 28, 2007 2:35 PM
28

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.

Posted by N in Seattle | November 28, 2007 2:47 PM
29

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.

Posted by Will in Seattle | November 28, 2007 2:52 PM
30

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.

Posted by Katelyn | November 28, 2007 2:54 PM
31

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.

Posted by Catman | November 28, 2007 3:42 PM
32

Ron Paul. He has no chance of winning, and I'd love to hear serious public debate about his politics. Perfect.

Posted by violet_dagrinder | November 28, 2007 4:51 PM
33

Yeah I went with Ron Paul too...

Posted by Amelia | November 29, 2007 1:14 AM
34

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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