Posted on 02/03/2010 7:59:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Someone in the Reagan mold gets my vote. Someone who fixes social security and medicare without taxing us into oblivion!
I got it....let’s let the msm choose.
Agreed, with the addition of Gingrich and the option to add more names to the list later.
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).
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...).
Its Demint, but he does look like him.
DeMint and Bachmann
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.
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.
Huckabee needs to be on that list too!
(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)
I like Palin /DeMint. DeMint seems to have that bull doggedness that Cheney had.
Good point. I think the Democrats may face a tougher choice in picking their candidate for 2012.
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
Paul Ryan at the top of the ticket. Scott Brown as VP.
Totally agree, just curious who best represents this goal at this time in your opinion?
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?
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.
Palin/McConnell
I could not agree with you more.
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