Christie.
To steal a line from PJ O’Rourke:
He’s wrong about absolutely everything, but he’s wrong within normal parameters .
And he was right about a few things at least. The Tunnel project he got killed would have cost NJ a huge amount for no reason despite almost all the benefits being for NYC.
I thought he handled Sandy very well.
I think I’m out.
…says the guy who doesn’t commute to NYC. 
If I had to pick a Republican, first I’d get stoned. Then I’d get drunk. Then I’d choose Haley because she took down the confederate flags in South Carolina following the racist church massacre.
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Foreign born and thus Constitutionally ineligible.
Can I pick Eisenhower?
If we can do that, I’ll pick Teddy Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt? Bull Moose party though and not republican? (was never clear on that)
ETA: Ninjaed by about 5 seconds.
trump is also Constitutionally ineligible, but he is still the leading candidate.
There really is nothing stopping Arnie from running and winning.
Look at the lawsuits trying to keep trump off the ballot- they are being dismissed for lack of standing.
The lesson of Thursday’s rejection being: People can’t bring lawsuits complaining about things generally. To have legal standing, they need to show something specific at stake that can be solved by the lawsuit they’re bringing. Though the Supreme Court has been … flexible, let’s say, about finding standing when it wants to get to the merits of a dispute, the fact remains that individuals will have a hard time challenging candidates’ eligibility, at least in federal court.
So, how could Arnie not run? What would stop him?
Note he was born in Allied occupied Austria, so there is a loophole.
I think that is a LONG way from being decided and nowhere near a solid conclusion. Indeed…I’d be surprised if he is deemed ineligible (not that I don’t agree with you in principle).
That’s why a case is being brought in Colorado which allows a citizen to bring such a case.
Dwight Eisenhower.
Yes.
He’s dead.
I know that.
But Lewis Black’s theory…
Christie/Cheney (Liz, not Dick).
I’d be happy to pick Charlie Baker, former governor of Massachusetts, not that he’d have a snowball’s chance in Hell of getting the GOP nomination.
If we can go for dead Republicans, I like Ike. Imagine a modern Republican saying this:
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
Address “The Chance for Peace” Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53
Christie.
Abe Lincoln.
Thread winner (if we can pick dead people).
Didn’t stop Ted Cruz from running in 2016. The republicans I know who supported him didn’t seem concerned about it.
My primary and general vote will be a write-in
Lisa Murkowski
Hillary Clinton.
Hey, if conservatives can talk about Mitt Romney pretending to switch parties and getting elected as a Democrat, I can talk about Hillary Clinton pretending to switch parties and getting elected as a Republican.
Alright, if I have to pick somebody who’s actually a Republican, George Pataki. He ran for President in 2016 so he’s a legitimate choice.