Frist off, for all the good work he did in the wake of 9/11, I’m not so sure that Rudi is a good choice. While I don’t think badly of him for it the fact is that he’d been estranged from his wife for the last several years of their marriage - and he’d had a mistress during much of that time. Not quite the image either party has been wanting to put into the White House. On issues, I’m less negative towards him than I would be towards, say, Pataki, but I’m not that fond of him, either. He would be a good compromise candidate - but I’m unsure how much either party wants to consider compromise, to be honest.
McCain lost a lot of credibility with me during the 2000 elections. Some of the comments he’d made at that time left me with the impression of a shrill man with more than his share of prejudices I don’t want to see in the White House. Unless he can show he’s got his temper more under control, I don’t see him being a good candidate.
Condi is a possible winner, I think. But, I agree with the posters who’ve said that they wonder whether a woman can win the White House. I’d like to think it’s possible. I’m just not sure.
I’d go with Ike, if I could, too. But there’s that worm thing. And I’m not sure Zombies can swear binding oaths.
I really would like to see Condi run. I guess that’s my choice.
I’m amazed at all of you who think Rice would be a strong candidate after her complete bungling of our entry into a war that gets ever more unpopular every day. What does she have going for her besides melanin and genitalia? A record of accomplishment? What, pray tell, would that be? Or is it essentially a desire to see the Dems writhe that drives that speculation, in the face of her direct denials at that? What is it, folks?
No, I can’t see anyone with a close connection to this administration and its, by growing consensus, solid record of lies and bungling getting any real support at all, even among the GOP’s base in the Christian Right. It has to be somebody with adequate purity on their agenda but still a history in the “reality based community”, including fiscal responsibility. That means McCain, very possibly Hagel, from inside the Beltway, not a Northern moderate like Snowe or Chaffee who wouldn’t get any traction in the South, but more likely a governor with a moderate image from outside the South. Pick one.
I think one effect of Katrina is that black America isn’t about to bolt to the Republicans. That more than anything is going to galvanize a key voting bloc.
McCain- nah. too old.
Rice- nah. Never been elected to anything before, too close to W.
Jeb- nah. I think one son-of-a-Bush is plenty.
Powell- nah. Lost some credibility over Iraq. If he were to blast Bush, I would consider voting for him.
Who does that leave? Nobody I’d be afraid to run against. Pickings are slim indeed.
You’re kidding, right? Savage couldn’t get elected dogcatcher. In spite of his claims his listening audience is a very small proportion of the electorate. He couldn’t even carry his home city of San Francisco.
I couldn’t think of a poorer candidate if I tried.
Those who are simplifying Condi Rice into her demographics are deluding themselves. Neither women nor black people are such robots that they would automatically vote for Rice just because she’s a black woman. Ideology actually means something, you know. Neither her color nor her sex means a damn thing to liberals. Most of us have actually moved far enough past those issues that we can decide a person is an asshole regardless of color or sex. The self-satisfied assumptions I hear from conservatives about how many votes Rice would take away from the liberal base are so simplistic they’re insulting. Rice is too closely aligned with Bush to have any credibility with liberals. We see her as a liar and toady and an accomplice to a criminal. That perception isn’t going to change.
It wouldn’t be a cakewalk for her to get the nomination, by the way. She’s pro-choice for one thing. She’s black and a woman for two others. Those who vote in the Republican primaries tend to be the most hardcore conservatives. Don’t kid yourself that those issues (especially the abortion issue) aren’t going to matter in the primaries.
Seriously, though, how great would he be as a press secretary? Just imagine the hamsters’ being photographed after the glut of Pit threads and pasted on the cover of The Weekly World News as proof the Repulicans hate animals. I would suspect Comedy Central would drop all other programming and just go C-SPAN from the WH.
As an aside, from what I’ve heard of Savage, his rants about Bush make Moore look like a card-carrying supporter of the GOP.
The summer of 1992? I don’t know what you mean by that. George Bush was not to my knowledge running for president in 1992, so AFAIK questions regarding his military record were not a matter of particular public interest.
