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Hugh Hewitt: Watching the Signs (The 2008 GOP Primary Is Already Underway)
The Weekly Standard ^ | December 9, 2004 | Hugh Hewitt

Posted on 12/09/2004 1:27:11 PM PST by RWR8189

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1 posted on 12/09/2004 1:27:12 PM PST by RWR8189
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To: RWR8189

Jeb Bush/Condi Rice in 2008!


2 posted on 12/09/2004 1:33:48 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: RWR8189

Hmm....Not from a lib or rino source, either.


3 posted on 12/09/2004 1:33:59 PM PST by expatpat
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To: West Coast Conservative

Jeb is not running and he was pissed off at a poll today that said he was a good candidate for president. And I don't think Condi wants to either.


4 posted on 12/09/2004 1:38:50 PM PST by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: RWR8189

Frist, Guiliani, McCain, Other -- a pretty dismal list. I guess I would have picked Guiliani, too, given the choices. What's surprising is that the women "gushed" over him.


5 posted on 12/09/2004 1:38:51 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: West Coast Conservative

I just heard Neil Cavuto interview Tommy Franks. He asked the Gen. if a run in 2008 was in the cards. Gen. Franks said he didn't see it happening, but wasn't ruling it out. Hmmmm...


6 posted on 12/09/2004 1:38:53 PM PST by Stars N Stripes (When a 20 footer sneaks up like a ton a lead, an the crest comes along and slaps um up side the head)
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To: Yardstick

If it was a choice between the three of them Guiliani would be my pick!


7 posted on 12/09/2004 1:39:43 PM PST by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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Just what we need: wedge issues on who should run next just as we're trying to unify before Bush's inauguration.

Just more of the ol' brown-spoon stirring.

8 posted on 12/09/2004 1:41:25 PM PST by Prime Choice (I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
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To: areafiftyone

More to the point, why would anyone want Condi? She's not a politican and but rather a bureaucratic administrator.


9 posted on 12/09/2004 1:41:32 PM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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Governor Tim Pawlenty if he wins in '06 or Senator John Thune.


10 posted on 12/09/2004 1:42:14 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Hermann the Cherusker

I like Condi in the role that she has now but she is NOT presidential material.


11 posted on 12/09/2004 1:42:38 PM PST by areafiftyone (Democrats = the hamster is dead but the wheel is still spinning)
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To: expatpat
Hmm....Not from a lib or rino source, either.

eh...Hewitt's kinda conservative, it depends on the issue.

He is against CCWs for the unwashed masses.
He is against the Proposition / Initiative process in California (the same one that allowed us to oust the commie Gov. Davis)
He is an open borders guy.

12 posted on 12/09/2004 1:45:35 PM PST by AreaMan
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To: Prime Choice
Sen. (and former Gov.) George Allen . . . unless Frist grows a personality and comes clean on some of the hospital funding/Medicare potential scandals in his past.
13 posted on 12/09/2004 1:45:42 PM PST by BroncosFan ("If I'm dead, why do I still have to go to the bathroom?" - Thomas Dewey, 1948)
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To: Stars N Stripes

Franks would be my first choice right now.

None of the early candidates mentioned really interest me like a Bush or a Reagan did in the past.


14 posted on 12/09/2004 1:46:08 PM PST by RWR8189 (Its Morning in America Again!)
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If we all do our jobs, the abortion issue will be resolved in this term with the appointment of as many as three Supreme Court justices and a bulletproof anti-PBA law. Given that environment I could very easily support Rudy, who would be an incredibly appealing candidate in blue states.
15 posted on 12/09/2004 1:46:31 PM PST by denydenydeny
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Our primary concern for 2008 is that at this time our top "candidates" are all liberals. I can see us in '08 making the same mistake that we made in '88, when we began to abandon the Reagan revolution and relegate conservatives to the fringe. The strength of the GOP is the conservative base. GOP leaders would do well to accept this fact.


16 posted on 12/09/2004 1:47:09 PM PST by bushisdamanin04
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To: West Coast Conservative

I like it!


17 posted on 12/09/2004 1:47:20 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

ick!

2 bushes are more than enough. and, i voted all 3 times for the bushes.

if hillary won in 2008, we could have 28 years of our lives run by the same 2 families.

in a country that rebelled against royals and aristocrats.


18 posted on 12/09/2004 1:49:31 PM PST by ken21 (against the democrat plantation)
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To: RWR8189
I stopped what I was doing, repelled the audience, and then conducted a focus group.

LOL! I hope Hugh meant that he repolled the audience, not repelled.

19 posted on 12/09/2004 1:51:25 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: expatpat
Hmm....Not from a lib or rino source, either.

It is true that Hugh Hewitt is not a Lib or a RINO, but he is a man who thinks it is better to put loyalty to the GOP ahead of loyalty to conservative principle. For example, during the California recall he was a big backer of Arnold and was unsparing toward those who backed the more qualified, more intelligent, and much more conservative candidate for governor, State Senator Tom McClintock.

As for 2008, I sure do hope that a better candidate than those three emerges. Rudy is a liberal on social issues and a hyper-liberal on immigration. McCain seems to think his base is the press. Frist is a nice guy and fairly conservative, but he's a dull cipher. I think nominating any of these guys would be a disaster.

20 posted on 12/09/2004 1:51:33 PM PST by feralcat
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