Posted on 11/03/2004 12:35:09 PM PST by JOAT
Conservatives need to start looking forward just 4 years and start thinking about who will run against Hillary in 2008.
Allowing that creature to win will undermine this nation worse than the 8 years she had puppeteering through Bubba.
Suggestions for a candidate/team?
Rick Santorum for President.
"Only executives can win. By that, I mean Presidents, Governors and Generals. Yes, Kennedy won, but he beat another legislator (Senate President and former elected Senator Richard Nixon)."
Not true if Dems pick a senator TOO!...
"I love Santorum, but who was the last Republican Senator to win a Presidential election?"
That would be Warren G. Harding. Before that , Wm. McKineley.
Not particularly great presidencies were they? Both died in office, incidentally, both from Ohio....interesting that Ohio is still a player.
Before that, I think it was Garfield (elected to Senate same time as Pres). He got shot, also...I think I am starting to see a pattern here.
I am thinking that Voinovich won't dare run for Prez.
Is Mitt pro-life? I know he is Mormon, but I thought he ran in MA as pro-choice. Or can he pull a "Reagan"?
He did nothing to fight the gay marrage thing.
Bayh will never be nominated because the Dems have a litmus test against any pro-life candidates at the national level
"Fifth, Condi learned the ropes under Reagan, taking on the Soviet Union. She's the last Cold Warrior. She knows the face of evil, and understands that it must be bludgeoned to death, without quarter."
BINGO! That's my feeling.
Plus, with regard to the pro-life issue, J.C. Watts is EXTREMELY pro-life.
It doesn't matter too much anyway since the President really doesn't have much affect on this issue except psychologically and of course the judges they appoint/nominate... As long as a President plays by the rules of the Constitution and appoints/nominates strict constructionists, I'm okay with their personal views...
I love Santorum, but I'm worried because he's up for re-election in 2008. If he were to get into the Republican primaries, wouldn't he have to skip re-election as a Senator? If he doesn't make it out of the primaries or loses the presidential election, PA will be out one great senator.
:) Nice thought. :)
Mitt Romney ran for governor in 2002 as a pro-choice candidate. He's in favor of the ban on partial-birth abortion, and maybe parental notification laws, but he's not a pro-lifer. Besides, he wouldn't be able to carry his home state of Massachusetts (and his other home state, Utah, is already in the bag).
Santorum is the man. He gets us Pennsylvania, keeps WV and OH safe, and helps us with Catholics in other swing states.
Wrong, he's up for re-election in 2006...
Evan Bayh and Easley would be the two toughest to beat. But the Dems will only nominate of them if they are desperate because both are too conservative for most Dems.
"And Romney's pro-life big time"
Sure there is. Politics is all about planning. The things you mention are trivial details that will be forgotten in 3 months.
1hr after GWB's acceptance speech isn't really the time to start fighting
Who's 'fighting?' I'm certain these discussions have long since taken place in circles of power. We pajama-clad peasants are just speculating.
Lieberman ran for VP and Senator in 2000.
Mitt is pro-life, but also realistic. He's not gonna try to limit abortion access in the most liberal state in the country. Mitt ran for Mass govenor on a fiscal conservative platform. Mass is somewhat fiscally conservative, but very socially liberal.
As far as Guiliani goes, he could very well deliver NY, but would he depress evangelical turnout elsewhere, turning it into a net negative? Not sure on that one.
And I'm not
The only problem with Tommy Franks is that he's not a republican, he's an Independent
Not true. Mitt did all he could, he was just hamstrung by a liberal mass supreme court and a liberal legislature.
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