Just out of curiosity, do y’all think there are any conservatives who would “do well” here — specifically, any with whom you disagree significantly on the majority of issues?
Didn’t RTF just say that he thought McCain, Cheney, and Rumsfeld could hack it (with a caveat about the latter two’s aggressiveness)?
I don’t think that McCain qualifies as a conservative with whom they disagree substantially on most issues. And caveats? I think that saying people would have to work hard to be merely reasonable is more than a caveat; it is a disqualification. I want to know if there’s someone I described whom they believe could step in and go — without “caveats” — the way they think Kerry and (inexplicably) Edwards could.
Other conservatives who I suspect would make good dopers include:
-Scalia
-George Will
-Colin Powell
-Peggy Noonan
-Mary Matalin
Nah, she’d just hang out in the Café and yak about her movies. I mean Children of a Lesser God was okay, but her character was such a bitch…
I wouldn’t mind if Rick Santorum showed up, just so I could Pit his ass to Hell and back.
Count me for Barry Goldwater.
An excellent choice. But is there one who is alive?
I’d kinda like that, too. 'Cause then I could go:
Scalia would do well here.
Will I’ve already made known my thoughts on.
I think Powell would do well here, but if there’s a question of whether McCain’s a conservative, the same question can be raised for Powell.
I think Peggy Noonan’s far better at writing inspiring speeches than she is at analytical reasoning. I read Start the Revolution Without Me…er, What I Saw at the Revolution cover-to-cover, and I still couldn’t figure out what a nice girl like her was doing in a place like that. Her political choices, as she described them, seemed to be based on appearances more than anything else.
Damn, and I was about to say Stephen Douglas. He’d put the “great” back into “Great Debates”. (Not to mention whichever of Webster, Clay, Calhoun and William Jennings Bryan would qualify as conservative by today’s standards.)
Anyhow, in addition to the 5 I listed above, how about Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park? They could face off in a deathmatch vs. Matt Groening from the left.
I also think Pat Buchanan would probably do OK.
So, is that enough? Do you consider your original slightly snide question (Just out of curiosity, do y’all think there are any conservatives who would “do well” here — specifically, any with whom you disagree significantly on the majority of issues?) to be answered?
Ben Stein would probably do well.