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Republicans Uncertain Over Who Should Challenge Obama in 2012
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Posted on 02/03/2010 7:59:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Republicans Uncertain Over Who Should Challenge Obama in 2012

A new poll shows Republican voters are deeply divided over who they want to carry the party mantle in the 2012 presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads the pack, a couple other names are close behind and a whopping 42 percent of Republicans are listed as undecided.

Republicans may be seeing the start of a political surge, but GOP voters still don't know who they want to lead it.

A new poll shows Republican voters are deeply divided over who they want to carry the party mantle in the 2012 presidential race. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin leads the pack, a couple other names are close behind and a whopping 42 percent of Republicans are listed as undecided.

The numbers suggest the 2012 presidential primary is any Republicans' game. Republicans are expecting to pick up a lot of seats in the congressional midterm elections, buoyed by success in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections last year, and the Massachusetts Senate election last month. But while President Obama's approval ratings have dropped significantly since he took office, it's unclear who would be up to the task of challenging him.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary
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To: Sub-Driver

Someone in the Reagan mold gets my vote. Someone who fixes social security and medicare without taxing us into oblivion!


41 posted on 02/03/2010 8:18:00 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Sub-Driver

I got it....let’s let the msm choose.


42 posted on 02/03/2010 8:18:23 AM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: Little Ray
Let the market decide (as long as it isn’t McCain, Guiliani or Romney). That why we have primaries.

Agreed, with the addition of Gingrich and the option to add more names to the list later.

43 posted on 02/03/2010 8:18:57 AM PST by pt17
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To: Sub-Driver

Don’t be surprised to see the name Jeb Bush beigin to rise as a potential candidate beginning after the Mid Term elections (Especially if Rubio wins in FL).


44 posted on 02/03/2010 8:19:42 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: troy McClure

I have a whole list of folks I’d love to see as Presidential candidates: Palin, Hunter (either one...), Bachman, McClintock, heck, “Joe the Plumber.”
For me it isn’t about who I want to be the candidate as much as it about who I DON’T want as candidate (the miserable trio mentioned before...).


45 posted on 02/03/2010 8:20:34 AM PST by Little Ray (Madame President sounds really good to me...)
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To: silverleaf

Its Demint, but he does look like him.


46 posted on 02/03/2010 8:21:00 AM PST by icwhatudo ("laws requiring compulsory abortion could be sustained under the existing Constitution"Obama Adviser)
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To: Sub-Driver

DeMint and Bachmann


47 posted on 02/03/2010 8:23:52 AM PST by Jazz1968
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Thune is no RINO. He did oppose Bolten IIRC, but it wasn't a deciding vote.

He is handsome, articulate, and would win if he entered the race. I pray he does! I don't think Sarah will run, neither will Demint.

48 posted on 02/03/2010 8:23:56 AM PST by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: Sub-Driver
" . . . uncertain over who . . . ."

Better consideration:

- Republicans should be certain about who should not challenge . . . in 2012.

Perhaps a cautionary word from Samuel Adams might be helpful here.

"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man. We must not conclude merely upon a man's haranguing upon liberty, and using the charming sound, that he is fit to be trusted with the liberties of his country. It is not unfrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty, - to oppress without control or the restraint of laws all who are poorer or weaker than themselves." - Samuel Adams, 1748, Essay in "The Advertiser" (Underlining added for emphasis)

The candidate who exhibits by his/her previous actions a deep and thorough understanding of and commitment to the ideas of America's Founders is a candidate most likely to guide America out of the troubled times and threats to liberty it faces in 2010.

Words are not sufficient. Popularity is not sufficient. Mature wisdom and leadership, based on an understanding of the enduring ideas underpinning our Constitution are what Americans are yearning for.

Republicans must return to principled foundations if they are to be perceived as able to preserve liberty for future generations.

49 posted on 02/03/2010 8:23:58 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: pt17

Huckabee needs to be on that list too!


50 posted on 02/03/2010 8:26:52 AM PST by JRochelle (My predictions on 2/3/2010: It will be Thune/Rubio in '12.)
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To: Doc Savage

(s) don’t you know? only a pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, moderate who agrees with Obama and would vote for amnesty and healcare socialism can represent the GOP leadership!(/s)


51 posted on 02/03/2010 8:27:13 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: heshtesh

I like Palin /DeMint. DeMint seems to have that bull doggedness that Cheney had.


52 posted on 02/03/2010 8:27:19 AM PST by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: proxy_user

Good point. I think the Democrats may face a tougher choice in picking their candidate for 2012.


53 posted on 02/03/2010 8:28:37 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade ("I don't have a whole lot of mercy for the bad guys, I'm on the good guys' side." -Sarah Palin)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

My list in no particular order:

Paul Ryan
Mike Pence
John Thune
Jim Demint
Scott Brown (maybe)
Tim Pawlenty
Haley Barbour
Bobby Jindal
Mitch Daniels
Sarah Palin
Mitt Romney

My favorites are Paul Ryan (he probably won’t run in 2012, he’s only 39) and Mitch Daniels


54 posted on 02/03/2010 8:29:35 AM PST by moose2004 (Stand up, speak out and stop Obamacare and GE)
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To: jersey117

Paul Ryan at the top of the ticket. Scott Brown as VP.


55 posted on 02/03/2010 8:29:57 AM PST by GunRunner
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To: loveliberty2

Totally agree, just curious who best represents this goal at this time in your opinion?


56 posted on 02/03/2010 8:30:48 AM PST by heshtesh
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To: Joe Boucher
PROGRESSIVE?

OHHHH, you mean LIBERAL.

Where did all this "progressive" stuff come from?

I hear Beck and O'Reilly using that term all the time.

I believe that liberals changed their name to progressives to hide the fact that they are liberals and to distance themselves from a label they know is toxic.

So why do Beck and O'Reilly and some posters to these threads go along with this?

57 posted on 02/03/2010 8:32:30 AM PST by JohnG45
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To: CommerceComet

Another “white cracker” who knows how to get things done without the federal gubmint running the show.

How old is Haley Barbour? Does he have the fire in his belly to be Pres or VP? I have not thought so.

No more old men, please. Or old women like Kay Bailey, either.

and please desensitize and make fun of the democrats’ certainty to use the term “white men” “crackers” etc, They will be used against the GOP.


58 posted on 02/03/2010 8:33:50 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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To: heshtesh

Palin/McConnell


59 posted on 02/03/2010 8:34:10 AM PST by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: wiggen

I could not agree with you more.


60 posted on 02/03/2010 8:34:23 AM PST by heshtesh
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