Posted on 01/31/2011 1:20:33 PM PST by TheTeaPartyChannel
Thank you for confirming that you should not be taken seriously in these matters.
I think you have it with that combination - also was thinking Herman Cain and Bachmann
Yep, impressive all right. Impressively statist.
I don’t know what their chances of winning are, but that would be my top pick.
Sarah Palin/George P. Bush - it would make their heads explode!
Agreed.
Typically, Dems, Libs fear those who would change things. That’s why they attack them. Rand Paul would shrink not grow government.
They’re fearing Palin, Bachmann, 2 Pauls.
Dems know that sometimes the R wins and sometimes the D wins, and everything is good for them as long as the R governs as a D. Dems fear Conservatives, not D-lites. They would like the entire Republican primary to filled with D-lites. People they know will grow the government.
I admire Sarah, and voted for HER (while having to suffer with the name McCain on the ballot) in 2008... but she would not be a strong choice for 2012. The MSM has been effectively demonizing her for 2 years (despite the fact that she’s neither an office-holder nor a candidate). The GOP does not have the guts or the talent to undo all of that bad PR. I do hope, however, that Sarah is a HUGE part of the election season, since she has shown that she is one of the few on the Right that can and will battle the MSM. The vast majority of the independent voters have no idea what the Tea Party movement is really about, and the GOP seems to have no interest in educating the public about either the Tea Party movement or the massive corruption and idiocy of the Left.
Palin/Demint
Palin/Pawlenty
Palin/Cain
etc etc
whatever happened with that forced vaccinations thing? did that happen, or was that a nasty rumor?
I’d like to see Michael Reagan get some elected to political office on his resume, but, yes, that’s the name we want, and he’s apparently a good conservative, although I don’t pay close attention to him.
I’ll second your Palin-Bachmann ticket!
You have got to be kidding me...
1) Pragmatically speaking, why is it naive to think social issues are not viable when over half the country is polling prolife?
2) Logically speaking, Tea Party values are not about becoming “fiscally sound” leftists, but about the hunger for a well rounded liberty that birthed this nation. A government that will pay someone to take your life when you can’t defend yourself can be counted on to take your money when you can’t protect it. The Tea Party is a call back to the basics upon which we Americans founded this Republic, not the least of which is that life is an inalienable right. Take that away and you cut the heart out of the movement, and presto we’re back to Ross Perot, and you know how that turned out.
How old is Forbes? He ran before, did quite well as I recall.
The Republican Presidential candidate is never someone who is unknown. Names like Daniels, Ryan, Pence, Thune, Rubio, Pawlenty are all unknown. They won’t win in 2012. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t run. (They have to run at some time to get famous enough to run again and win).
There are very few Republicans famous enough to win in 2012. Forbes is one. Palin, Romney, Huckabee, Buchanan, Ron Paul, Forbes, Alexander, Cheney, Gingrich. Barbour maybe. Rand Paul maybe. I might be missing a few.
Democrats are the ones that pick the fresh faces.
Herman Cain is a possibility. I don’t think it would serve well to have two women on the ticket, however.
Palin/West would be a shoe in...
Drill baby drill/Foreign Policy
Americans are about to experience instability in the oil markets, we’ve got to drill/West on the instability in the middle east and military policy-—domestically we’ll have to see what the republicans get done this year.
Palin/Bachmann could win it, but it would be close because there’s too many misogynist republicans as well...and I think we need foreign policy strength...not sure we’d get in that team...
Palin/Bolton
Palin/Cheney
Palin/Demint
Palin/Ryan
NO RINO Huckabuck (social conservative), Romney (socialist), Newt (he’s still bragging about the Clinton surplus that never existed), no inside republican establishment cronys...
How do you figure Rubio is a Natural Born Citizen when his parents were not citizens at the time of his birth?
*****I did not say that they are not viable. I did say that jobs and the economy will trump all else (barring the unforeseen of course). Abortion is the number one social issue. There is next to nothing that a POTUS can do on that issue beyond potential SC appointments. And even then there would need to be a case bubbling up to the SC to cause a review. And look at 2008. If abortion were the primary issue then how did we as a nation elect a late-term murderous thug? I read the results of this poll as indicating that the rank & file GOP is not looking for dramatic, confrontational, charismatic and controversial candidates but ones who are solid in the area that effects everyone...the economy. Of course it is just one poll but 31% for dull and effective vs. 2% for celebrity is telling.*****
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2) Logically speaking, Tea Party values are not about becoming “fiscally sound” leftists...
*****You start to lose me with the suggestion that Daniels or any other non TP-endorsed republican is nothing but a fiscally sound leftist.
Daniels' position on social issues is not that they are unimportant or should be viewed from a leftist perspective but that when the house is on fire, a fire which if left to burn will destroy every aspect, then you prioritize your efforts toward putting the fire out.***
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