who do the Republicans have?

Jarod

Jarod

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Mitt Romney... So weak McCain beat him.

Sarah the tax cheat Palin?

Bobby Jindal who cant speak....


Anyone left?
 
I don't think the Republicans have anyone who could beat Obama as he is now.

Four years is political eternity, and he could collapse, putting him within reach of some of the weaker Republicans who we now scoff at. I don't see a rising Republican star suddenly rising up from nowhere, though. Until last night, I had thought that Jindal could be that star, which just shows what an eternity four years is.

Just think, if that guy hadn't been taping at that Republican rally in Virginia, we could be looking at president Allen right now.
 
I thought Romney could have pulled it off before I knew much more than what was on paper about him. I thought some of his initiatives in Massachusetts would appeal to the Independents who abandoned the GOP in 06. And he has substantial economic credentials. His foreign policy and civil liberties views are atrocious, of course.

I don't really agree that McCain was in his own right able to beat Romney. McCain was a beneficiary of the numbers game. Huckabee split the vote and made Romney unable to run away with the nomination. No Huckabee in the race, I believe Romney would have won Iowa and subsequent primaries for sure if not the nomination.

But I really can't stand the guy and I doubt his sincerity.

He will be back. But I probably won't vote for him unless he reinvents and the Bush years fever has left us enough that the GOP tone on important issues globally and constitutionally has changed.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
I thought Romney could have pulled it off before I knew much more than what was on paper about him. I thought some of his initiatives in Massachusetts would appeal to the Independents who abandoned the GOP in 06. And he has substantial economic credentials. His foreign policy and civil liberties views are atrocious, of course.

I don't really agree that McCain was in his own right able to beat Romney. McCain was a beneficiary of the numbers game. Huckabee split the vote and made Romney unable to run away with the nomination. No Huckabee in the race, I believe Romney would have won Iowa and subsequent primaries for sure if not the nomination.

But I really can't stand the guy and I doubt his sincerity.

He will be back. But I probably won't vote for him unless he reinvents and the Bush years fever has left us enough that the GOP tone on important issues globally and constitutionally has changed.
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I disagree with you. McCain out and out won the Republican nomination. By your analysis no one wins their party's nomination other than by default as you can make the same observation about all the primary's since we've had them.

The real problem that the Republicans have, and the last election demonstrated this, is that the candidates which are very popular with the party are not tenable at a national level and those who do have national appeal are not widely popular with the party.

Both Guilliani and Romney have appeal across the board nationally but don't have strong appeal with in the party.

So show how badly the Republican party has become inbred USC is probably right. Jeb is probably their best candidate for 2012 or 2016.
 
2.5 years ago but not entirely out of date.

10. Mitch Daniels—Indiana

While the former Bush Office of Management and Budget chief upset Indiana conservatives with his call for a temporary tax increase on those earning more than $100,000-per-year (the legislature rejected this), he nonetheless overcame a $645-million deficit with spending cuts. He has also attracted more private-sector business to the state and signed a voter identification measure that infuriated liberals.


9. Mike Rounds—South Dakota

Has made nationwide headlines by pushing a measure to ban all abortions in his state—a move almost certain to lead to the Supreme Court’s revisiting Roe v. Wade. Rounds did sign phone tax and cigarette tax increases to deal with a deficit he inherited, but backs his state’s no-income tax stand and calls for property-tax relief when the state has more money.

8. Tim Pawlenty—Minnesota

Unchanged on pro-life and other social stands from his days in the legislature, Pawlenty cut more than $171 million from the budget to cover a deficit in ’03 and has called for a constitutional limit on the growth of spending.

7. Haley Barbour—Mississippi

The former GOP national chairman never veered from his no-new tax, no government-expansion policies and was a take-charge leader during Hurricane Katrina. But he has disappointed some fans by becoming a visible lobbyist for more federal tax-funded post-Katrina relief.

6. David Heineman—Nebraska

Since succeeding Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns as governor in ’05, Heineman has won high marks for vetoing a bill to provide in-state tuition for children of illegal immigrants. His stand was key to his winning the GOP primary this year for a full term over Rep. Tom Osborne, revered former college football coach.

5. Rick Perry—Texas

After serving as George W. Bush’s lieutenant governor and then succeeding him as governor in ’01, Perry put through a zero-based budget to deal with a $10-billion deficit in ’04-05 and has maintained his state’s no-income-tax policy. He has proposed a $6-billion property tax cut. Perry is far tougher on border security and illegal immigration than his predecessor.

4. Jon Huntsman—Utah

After less than two years in office, this philanthropist and former Reagan and Bush Administration official has denounced the “No Child Left Behind” federal education scheme, signed a measure to void illegal immigrants’ driver’s licenses and replace them with a special “driving privilege” card, and supports school vouchers and phasing out the state sales tax on food.

3. Matt Blunt—Missouri

Backed by Republican majorities in both houses of the state legislature, America’s youngest (36) governor has successfully pushed for tax cuts as well as slashing the size of government.

2. Bill Owens—Colorado

“A sterling record of fiscal accomplishment” is how the Cato Institute characterized GOPer Owens’ six years in office. He backed a state tax and expenditure limit, cut income, capital gains and dividends taxes, and resisted raising taxes when his state had a $850-million deficit in ’03. Owens remains strongly pro-life and backed a statewide marriage initiative.

1. Jeb Bush—Florida

Winding up his second term as governor, Bush has signed a tax cut of some kind almost every year he has been in office—from slashing property to intangibles taxes—and not trimmed his pro-life, pro-voucher sails, although his refusal to permit natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has upset many conservatives. He would be an obvious Republican presidential possibility in ’08 were he not following his father and brother.
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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15749
 
Here's one to watch. Nice trick with the pig.

America's Most Conservative Governor

With Republicans on a national spending spree of historic proportions, it is reassuring to see a governor still fighting to limit the size and scope of government. Whereas the GOP majority in Washington has presided over an increase in domestic discretionary spending of eight percent per year, Mark Sanford of South Carolina has kept his state's increase to a mere one percent. In recent history, only one politician has done better. Ronald Reagan actually cut spending by an average of 1.3 percent per year over his two terms.

Gov. Sanford likes the Reagan comparison and, indeed, has set him as his model. Like President Reagan, he made control of spending, the bureaucracy, and waste his top goals from the first. He spent half of what his predecessor did on his official transition to office, disbanded his security detail and scrapped the traditional black tie fancy ball for a Bar-B-Q picnic open to all. But his actions once in office were hardly just symbolic. He adopted the first detailed executive branch budget in the state's history, which identified millions of dollars in possible savings, rather than leaving decisions solely to the legislature as had all earlier governors.

Gov. Sanford faced a $155 million deficit from his predecessor the day he entered office, together with threats from credit rating agencies to lower the state's borrowing status. To close this gaping hole, he engineered passage of a "Fiscal Discipline Act" through a reluctant legislature. He negotiated $139 million in repayment and issued 106 vetoes to cut spending to close the remainder of the gap. While the legislature overrode all but one veto, the governor did not stop there. He walked into the statehouse rotunda with a live pig under each arm to ask why the legislators could not cut unnecessary pork spending. While the spenders were squealing, the people loved it and granted the governor a 70 percent approval rating. Showing his true nettle, Sanford invested his popularity in his budget cuts and a half dozen Republicans who had defied him on spending, including the House majority leader, lost primaries in the following election.
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http://acuf.org/issues/issue15/040703news.asp
 
Adam Weinberg said:
I thought Romney could have pulled it off before I knew much more than what was on paper about him. I thought some of his initiatives in Massachusetts would appeal to the Independents who abandoned the GOP in 06. And he has substantial economic credentials. His foreign policy and civil liberties views are atrocious, of course.

I don't really agree that McCain was in his own right able to beat Romney. McCain was a beneficiary of the numbers game. Huckabee split the vote and made Romney unable to run away with the nomination. No Huckabee in the race, I believe Romney would have won Iowa and subsequent primaries for sure if not the nomination.

But I really can't stand the guy and I doubt his sincerity.

He will be back. But I probably won't vote for him unless he reinvents and the Bush years fever has left us enough that the GOP tone on important issues globally and constitutionally has changed.
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Its the Base, they will lose it for them every time. They have become a joke and rightly so. Dont look for them to ever be anything but a joke. If the Republican party does not become more progressive they will lose every time. The issues they have to promote to keep their current base will keep them out of the mainstream from now on. America is not going to buy the idiot issues laced with lies anymore. Look at what Jindal did to his carreer yesterday by touting the R base line.
 
Adam Weinberg said:
I thought Romney could have pulled it off before I knew much more than what was on paper about him. I thought some of his initiatives in Massachusetts would appeal to the Independents who abandoned the GOP in 06. And he has substantial economic credentials. His foreign policy and civil liberties views are atrocious, of course.

I don't really agree that McCain was in his own right able to beat Romney. McCain was a beneficiary of the numbers game. Huckabee split the vote and made Romney unable to run away with the nomination. No Huckabee in the race, I believe Romney would have won Iowa and subsequent primaries for sure if not the nomination.

But I really can't stand the guy and I doubt his sincerity.

He will be back. But I probably won't vote for him unless he reinvents and the Bush years fever has left us enough that the GOP tone on important issues globally and constitutionally has changed.
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The thing is that Huckleberry will run again, and someone will position himself where McCain was.

Many Southern Republicns do not like Romney, and the South is important to the Republican nomination.
 
evince said:
Its the Base, they will lose it for them every time. They have become a joke and rightly so. Dont look for them to ever be anything but a joke. If the Republican party does not become more progressive they will lose every time. The issues they have to promote to keep their current base will keep them out of the mainstream from now on. America is not going to buy the idiot issues laced with lies anymore. Look at what Jindal did to his carreer yesterday by touting the R base line.
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the more you tighten your grip, the more people that will slip through your fingers.

there is only so much 'progressive' that a free people will take when your 'progressiveness' inhibits their freedom of choices in their lives.
 
The problem guys like Barber, Sanford and Huckleberry is that Republicans need someone a little bit better educated than a graduate of North Little Rock School of Faith Healing and Proctology. LOL LOL

Personally I can't think of single person in the party with the combination of experience, brains, education talent and ability then Mitt Romney but good luck on getting these rednecks to vote for a Morman. LOL
 
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