Talk Elections

Well?

Please stop talking about Bob Corker. Please.

Anyway, my vote would be for someone else (assuming he was running). If not, Jindal gets my support.

My preferences:

1. Ron Paul-backed candidate
2. Bobby Jindal
3. Sarah Palin
4. Mitt Romney
5. Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee.

Palin

Romney

     Romney is the most tolerable of those candidates I guess.

Since I am an Indy, in NC I can vote in the primary. Out of these Romney.

If forced probably Romney or Corker.

Though I don't agree with Jindal much politically, he seems to be a very intelligent guy and quite a competent administrator.

I guess out of these Romney, but I'd be undecided going into the debates between he and Obama.

Well, you never know.  I probably agree with you, but if Obama sucks, I will likely be firmly in Romney's column.

I'd say Thune is far more likely than Corker.

Texas has open primaries, so I'd vote for Palin. :)

ahhh! it's the revenge of Operation Chaos!

     Same here. I used to utterly detest Romney, but after seeing what else the GOP has to offer, I've warmed up a lot to him.

Yeah. It all depends on how Obama does in his first term. In all honesty, I'm not expecting much.

Newt Gingrich.

I'm not a Republican but I quite like Mike Huckabee.

I think Gingrich would be good if Obama has relatively high approval ratings and appears likely to be re-elected.  I wouldn't expect Gingrich to win but I think he would be good at bringing new Conservative ideas to the table, setting the GOP up for future gains and reminding the American people that there is another way to go. 

I voted Romney...but Huckabee, and Jindal would be up there.

Yeah; I forgot about Thune :P

Jindal...not even close

I really like Jindal, but it would depend what kind of campaign he ran... he's a bit too socially conservative for my taste, but if he didn't play that up too much and focused on the economy and foreign policy, I'd probably vote for him.

If not, Romney.

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.

Corker is the least odious of the choices I gave.

Sad that Palin is the most ingenuous person on that list, excluding Corker (about whom I know next to nothing).

I likely will be voting in the R primary in 2012 if President Obama is de facto unopposed for renomination, so I might have to start looking into the R field.  In this poll I voted for the Huck.

Can't vote in the primaries.

Romney is by far the most entertaining and smartest of the group. Except for maybe Jindal. You can tell he's smart as hell because of his skin color. He's certainly more likeable than Romney but Romney would seemingly have the better ability at making President Obama look silly in the debates (as recent campaigns have shown, the former trait is far more important). As for who is the most electable of this group, who knows?

Thune would be a far more intelligent choice for the GOP than anyone listed here.

You're right; Huck probably is more trustworthy than Palin.

However, if you're suggesting that Romney is ingenuous, I really have nothing to say to that.  He'd say anything to advance himself.  There are few politicians I have less respect for than Mitt Romney, save the perverts and felons.

Might change my registration to vote for Palin, depending on whether she needs the boost on Super Tuesday.

I voted for Jindal just to keep Romney from having the plurality of (Republican) votes. But in reality, I favor none of the above: Secession is starting to look good.

My own personal interactions with the man as a first-in-the-nation voter.  Can you provide me any evidence to the contrary, to convince me that the nausea I felt after meeting him each time was the product of, say, something I'd eaten earlier?

Romney

Romney flipped on abortion.  What else did he do to make you consider him disreputable?  I'm not picking a fight, I really want to know.  This must be the fifth time I've asked this on this board, and I've yet to receive a real answer. 

Huckabee's probably the closest thing the GOP has to creating some sort of working coalition right now.  The GOP needs to find a way to hold onto evangelicals while simultaneously attracting racial minorities (i.e. latinos).

he would get absolutely demolished in middle/upper income suburbs and urban areas.  if you think McCain losing DuPage was a telling development, wait to see what would happen to Huck.  I'm not buying that the Hispanics would flock to him either.  why?  because he likes Jesus too?

He epitomizes "compassionate conservatism," and thus at least stands more of a chance with hispanics than anyone else.  As far as upper/middle income suburbanites go, their voting values are more shallow than you think.  As soon as prosperity returns we'll see their traditional myopia set in, with a full return to commercialism and isolationism (and thus the GOP).

If Jindal does run, what are the chances that he won't win all of Louisiana's delegates?

After W, "compassionate conservatism" will never sell.  To anyone.  And suburbanites vote on 2 issues, national security and the economy.  Right now the only economic selling point Huckabee may have is the Fair Tax, which no one knows enough about to feel comfortable with, let alone vote for.  

I met every candidate in both fields this year.  Only two I didn't like were Romney and Gravel.  Apparently meeting someone isn't a good way to judge them, though.  Shall we discern from television ads?

Number of votes received is hardly a measure of personal character.  Bill Clinton would, by that standard, be a most honorable man.

I never implied that Romney isn't intelligent.


You're nearly as bad as that R-RI guy.

I'm going to vote against the jerk if he runs again in 2012, and it will be pleasing to do so.  Four years after convincing Massachusetts to vote for him, he went on the national stage to repeatedly trash his own state as well as New England in general in order to ingratiate himself with the Republican Party's southern and hard-right base.  Using an electorate that voted him into office as a pawn in a political campaign was enough to establish him as disingenuous in my mind.

NOTA

I'd toss Romney and Jindal around, probably end up voting for Jindal. I'm starting to believe the 2012 Primaries are going to be between those two, trading Northern and Southern wins, making it a squeaker like the Democrats this year.