Okay, as a leftie, I totally FEAR the following potential presidential candidate. And respect her. Republicans everywhere should be screaming for her to run:
CONDOLEEZA RICE.
She’s brilliant, centrist, tough as nails, smart, and nobody to mess with. SUPREMELY electable. NOBODY can say she’s not qualified for the job.
She would wipe the floor with most of the lame-o GOP candidates out there. She’s like Darth Vader in stilletto boots.
I think y’all should draft her.
None of them. And who the hell is Mark Santorum? I think you mean Rick. (And god help us all of if Mr. Fecal-slime becomes president!)
She’d never do it in million years. I know they all say that, but she means it.
ETA: @ Bayou, of course. Look, people, either you all are going to have to learn when, exactly, I plan on quick replying to a thread, or I’m going to have to use the quote button. I think we all know what the correct and obvious solution is here.
google for the “senator man-on-dog” song in his honor.
sigh I’m afraid you might be right…it’s too bad, really, because it seems like the Republican party is in the grips of something very nasty…and I sort of thought she might have the personal wherewithal to pull it back onto the shores of sanity.
I don’t know that any of the other candidates do. Not finding a good charismatic person to lead the party right now could lead to Bad Things Happening…I hear references to “Second Amendment solutions…” coming out of the Tea Partiers.
OH DEAR GAWD, Joe Arpaio’s on that list! That guy already abuses the power he has! He’s corrupt as a month-old carcass in the summer heat!
Not true at all; being President isn’t very much like being a CEO. A CEO is the head of an authoritarian organization narrowly dedicated to profit; a President is the head of a democratic republic with a full spectrum of needs and agendas, not just profit.
Honestly, given the outcomes of primaries this year, I don’t think anyone approaching a reasonable centrist can be nominated.
Ironically, the closest might be Mike Huckabee. I say “ironic” because of his fundamentalist beliefs, and I would not vote for someone who doesn’t believe in evolution, but at least Huckabee doesn’t seem to have that really mean streak that so many of the more senior Republicans do.
I would fear his nomination because I think he would move more to the center after being nominated, and become more electable.
I join others in wishing for Sara Palin in order to guarantee a Dem victory.
I see your faith in humanity has not yet been crushed into a fine meal. If Palin were nominated, that’d finally do the trick.
I agree, he is generally nicer…
But he wants to make sure I can’t legally marry or even have a civil union with my spouse. Also wants to make sure I can’t adopt children.
So he may be gentler about a lot of things, but he still wants me at the back of the bus.:mad:
Oh man, yeah, ditto on Condie. Frankly, I was a little surprised that they didn’t try to have her run in '08. (A little surprised.)
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I’m not picking any of those losers in your poll.
Well, I won’t vote for him.
Are you aware of anyone on that list who supports same sex marriage? I don’t know enough about most of them to know. The ones I do know something about – do not support SSM.
I’m not getting this. Are you saying she could actually be elected, and that would pulverize my faith in humanity?
If she is, it would.
They’re all complete garbage, but I voted Ron Paul just for the laughs and because he’s for legalizing grass.
I think Palin might literally be a world ending scenario if she was actually elected (because I think she’s a nutcase with a Messiah complex who believes she’s living in the endtimes and would try to start a nuclear war with Qatar or something), but would be ideal candidate for Obama to run against becuse she would ensure the widest possible margin of victory for his relection. Obama v. Palin would make Reagan v. Mondale look like Bush v. Kerry.
Possibly. I certainly wouldn’t dismiss her nomination as automatic Republican failure.
Eh, probably no supporters of SSM on there…the best I can hope for is a person against gay marriage not too aggressively. Get one in there that’s too aggressive and they’ll cheerlead for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, which might pass with the current generation.
And that’s the only thing that will prevent me from seeing gay marriage in my lifetime, because the younger generation, well, even if they don’t like gay people, they don’t necessarily care enough to really fight SSM.
(They put it in the right perspective: not a big deal if you aren’t gay.)
Rather she attack Qatar than some place that can shoot nukes back.
Um, sorry Paul in Qatar. You better get back to Saudi.
You say that now…but what if she WON the election :eek::eek::eek:
Do you want that manicured and less-than-wholly-balanced finger on the button?
Christ, no. I have to admit that sometimes I tremble for my country when I reflect that God doesn’t exist.
Upon reflection, I think she would be more likely to nuke the Philippines thinking they were the Philistines.