I know my thread title has a foregone and premature conclusion in it but let’s face facts, Obama isn’t doing that well to say the least. I listen to NPR in my office all day every day because it is the only radio station I can get and even they are railing on the man. That is one bad sign. The approval ratings are dire when you break them down out the electoral college level.
Let’s assume for a moment, that he is going to lose reelection in 2012. What Republican candidate (or other if there is one) seems the best choice for you?
This is an honest question BTW and I want to hear who you think could do the job better from another side.
I don’t know if this is a piece of old-school feminist rhetoric but Republican women are plentiful and some of them could make Attila the Hun blush. Which one of those would you pick?
Arnold Schwarzenegger. I’m serious here. The career partisan hacks are toads & stuffed suits. They’d all be disasters, & not in a good way.
Arnold isn’t that partisan, he’d be OK.
Carly Fiorina might be OK, or Bloomberg.
Just no one who came up through the party system designed to weed out the smart people & elevate tax-cutters for Grover Norquist & [del]his dark masters[/del] the Koch family.
How about if one is an independant voter? Give me someone who is fiscally responsible, will actually try to tackle the deficit and healthcare issues, won’t start a new war, won’t suck up to the tea baggers/moral majority and won’t rat fuck the majority of Americans to pay of Wall Street/Big Business and reward the rich with greater income disparity
Which Republican candidate fits my criteria? If there is one, I’d look at voting for her.
Megan McCain. In the aftermath of the 2008 election, in the midst of the Republican Party losing it’s motherfucking mind, she was a relative voice of reason. She seems pretty moderate for a Republican (possibly even more moderate than the Ladies of Maine). I could live with her in the White House, if necessary.
The only problem is that she’s got 9 years to go before she’s eligible (she’s only 26).
If I were forced to pick a Republican, it would be former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee.
He was the only Republican to vote against the Iraq War. He’s pro-choice, and pro-gay rights, opposes the death penalty, voted against the Bush Era tax cuts, and opposed repealing the Estate Tax. Of course, he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the GOP nomination so this is all idle speculation.
The type of republican I’d vote for would never survive the primaries.
And to say that 2012 is a foregone conclusion is just silly right now. It all depends on the economy, of course, and things may be a lot better then. God I hope so.
I was just reading that Obama’s current approval numbers are higher than Clinton’s or Reagan’s were at the same point in their first terms. You can’t judge how well a politician will run for office until he starts running.