Kay Bailey Hutchinson ought to be on that list, unless she’s explicitly said “hell no”.
EDIT: Sorry, I’m not hoping to see Obama defeated so my vote should not count.
I’m fairly certain Newt mutters something about running for President just to keep himself politically relevant enough to keep getting invited onto talk shows. He did the same thing during the last election cycle, I don’t think he’s seriously considering it (or would get very far, if he ran).
Palin is an idiot. I would rather see Newt Gingrich than any of the choices in the poll.
Can I please change my poll vote to Petreaus please?
I don’t think anyone has expressed a wish that Hutchison run.
I’m pretty sure once you’ve voted, that’s it. Also, Petraeus isn’t going to run.
I’ll be surprised if Jeb Bush doesn’t at least flirt with a run. Neal Bush would be more fun, though.
It’s noted. I don’t think it can be edited in, though.
He’s already turned down the NFL commissionership and a run at a Senate seat he probably could have won without even trying.
Jeb might be the most popular Republican of all among minorities, for what it’s worth.
You know those Presidents who have an embarrassing brother, like Bill Clinton with Roger, and Jimmy Carter with Billy? In the Bush family, it was like a mixup happened and the embarrassing brother got elected by mistake.
The question is whether people will still hold George against Jeb.
I wouldn’t hold W against him, but I will always hold Schiavo against him.
Meh. He basically did as little to intervene as he possibly could without earning the scorn of the religious right; he knew all along that Terri’s Law was never going to hold up in court.
Ah, you really don’t want Obama out of office, do you? 
same here, I voted for Palin because I would like a second chance to spot the diffrence between Tina Fay and Sara Palin, so you can scrap my vote
I’m a Republican, but I think Palin would be even more polarizing than Obama.
I’ll come clean: I’m an Obama supporter and I clicked on Palin. Then I read your OP stating you only wanted responses from those who would oppose Obama. I did not intentionally try to mess with your results, and I apologize.
That said, I think Huckabee might be a decent choice for the Repubs, but his religious fundamentalism would probably work against him. I don’t think much of Romney’s chances; he was pretty severely trounced in the last primaries, wasn’t he? Palin would just be a joke, which was why I voted that way, in a Please-let-it-be-Palin, Please-let-it-be-Palin kind of way.
I don’t think there’s a viable candidate on your list, actually. I predict the 2012 Republican nominee will be none of the above. I have no idea who, but I’d guess someone who’s not yet getting much notice and will see a chance within the next year or two to win back the moderate conservative base that the party has been ignoring in favor of the extreme right-wingers.
Pawlenty and Crist both seem viable. Agree with you about the others, though.
I think it might end up being Pawlenty, just because of his sheer blandness. He’s not a Mormon, or an idiot, fundamentalist hockey mom, or a demon fighter,or a Bush or Newt Gingrich. I don’t think Petraeus is going to run, but he’d be a political neophyte anyway, and he’s yet to be publicly vetted.
I think Pawlenty might prevail just by being safe and conventional, and not hitting any hot buttons. He will lose miserably in the General, but I think he can get the Republican nomination.
Crist is not viable, at least not in the Republican primaries. See above.
There was a thread about it a long time ago, and at the time, the evidence that he’s gay seems to be pretty non-existent.