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10. Mike Hucakbee 9. Bobby Jindal 8. Nikki Haley 7. Newt Gingrich 6. Scott Brown 5. Tim Pawlenty 4. Chris Christie 3. Sarah Palin 2. Mitt Romney 1. Haley Barbour
1 posted on 07/03/2010 10:22:50 AM PDT by yongin
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To: yongin

How does Haley find her way onto that list?


2 posted on 07/03/2010 10:27:11 AM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: yongin

Barbour knows how to herd the cats.


3 posted on 07/03/2010 10:27:56 AM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: yongin

Oh, sure—Romney’s much more influential than Palin.


5 posted on 07/03/2010 10:30:39 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: yongin
May as well be ranking noodles for their structural strength:

10. Rigatoni

9. Tortellini

8. Lasagna

7. Spiroccheti

6. Spaghetti

5. Macaroni

4. Linguini

3. Vermicelli

2. Bucatini

1. Fettuchini

The whole lot is a waste of skin, electrolytes, carbohydrates, water, protein, lipids.

They are toast as much as are the Rats in 2010 unless they start singing a different tune.

6 posted on 07/03/2010 10:32:10 AM PDT by caddie
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To: yongin

I can’t figure out why they keep shoving Romney in our faces after his health insurance debacle in Mass.

And what about Maurice Clemmons for Huckabee?

Some of these people are just a waste of time.


10 posted on 07/03/2010 10:35:50 AM PDT by dajeeps
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To: yongin
Yes. Let's have Romney push RomneyCARE and ObamaCARE.
That should be just the ticket ... Obama.


"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism
or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."

President Ronald Reagan

The Origin of American Death Panels (ObamaCARE=RomneyCARE Death Panels).



11 posted on 07/03/2010 10:36:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: yongin

Why isnt Brewer on the list?


12 posted on 07/03/2010 10:38:46 AM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: yongin

I hope and pray that romney, the huckster, newt and pawlenty are jokes. Why would brown even be considered????


16 posted on 07/03/2010 10:45:10 AM PDT by mathluv ( Conservative first and foremost, republican second - GO SARAHCUDA!!!!)
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To: yongin

What a hit piece on Palin. Pfft.


17 posted on 07/03/2010 10:45:34 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: yongin

If Haley Barbour is #1, why does everyone covet Sarah’s endorsement? Things that make you go, “Hmmm”....


19 posted on 07/03/2010 10:49:46 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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To: yongin

Michelle Bachmann - Haley Barbour ticket, that’s a winner.


21 posted on 07/03/2010 10:54:22 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: yongin
"Gov. Haley Barbour"

Lobbyist, inside-the-beltway operator.

The GOP needs fresh faces to make it in 2012.
23 posted on 07/03/2010 11:00:56 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: yongin

I like Newt, I now place my head down with hands over head and await the slings and arrows. Seriously, I do like him and I think he has many terrific ideas for a new admininstration. He is not perfect but he knows what the problems are and has answers that make sense.


24 posted on 07/03/2010 11:14:31 AM PDT by Rockiette (Democrats are not intelligent)
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To: yongin
This list is bogus.

Sarah Palin is basically pushed aside and while I like Haley Barbour, he looks and sounds like the old pol he is, which is going to be anathema to the majority of voters looking for real change and not a re-arranging of the deck chairs on the good ship Titanic. I see Barbour as a VP, especially if Palin runs. Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty and Gingrich are off my list for a variety of reasons and although I like Bobby Jindal, he tends to be boring in his public appearances and would do better in a Republican president's cabinet than as the front-runner against Obama. Scott Brown is another RINO, Nikki Haley is relatively unknown and inexperienced and Chris Christie has indicated that he isn't really interested, although, again, Christie could be a good VP or cabinet member in a Republican administration. I agree that Governor Jan Brewer should have been included in the list, especially when they added Nikki Haley, who is far less known or experienced.

What this list shows, besides it's inherent bias, is that we have a very small GOP bench for the 2012 presidential election and I don't see that drastically changing, although the emergence of Arizona Governor Brewer as a force to be reckoned with during the immigration battle proves that things can change quickly in politics.

I still prefer Sarah Palin as the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, for a variety of reasons, including her record of achievement in office and the fact that she has already been attacked, investigated and reviled by the Democrats and the media for the last two years without seriously affecting her solid conservative positions or her popularity. I do not believe Palin would pass up the opportunity to serve her embattled nation to make more money as a commentator/writer. She's already made millions from her autobiography and I suspect that Fox News had to give her a seven figure deal to sign her up as a commentator.

Unlike Romney, Brown, et al. Palin is a true conservative and despite non-stop media sniping, manages to convey her conservationism with a pleasant smile and a sincerity that most politicians lack. Obama's pitiful resume and failed presidency will put to rest the 'no foreign policy experience' complaint often lodged against Palin, even by some Republicans. Because foreign policy was, well, foreign to Obama, the fact that Palin was never in some senate meeting discussing aid to Turkestan or some such hardly disqualifies her to run for president, just as it didn't disqualify Ronald Reagan in 1980. No, Sarah Palin is not the incarnation of Ronald Reagan but there are a few similarities, including the left's hatred for Palin which is easily equal to their hatred for Reagan in his time.

Did I mention that I think the list is bogus?

27 posted on 07/03/2010 11:34:27 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: yongin
My choices-

My dream picks for 2012 primary slate: Bachman, Bolton, Brewer, Liz Cheney, Coburn, DeMint, Inhofe, Jindal, Palin and Pence.

My nightmare picks for the 2012 primary are: Giuliani, Hucklbee, McCain, Ron Paul, Perry, Romney, any Bush.

28 posted on 07/03/2010 11:39:25 AM PDT by matthew fuller (2012: Bachman, Bolton, Brewer, Liz Cheney, Coburn, DeMint, Inhofe, Jindal, Palin and Pence.)
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To: All

National Review wants Palin to be RNC Chair


An Idea for the RNC: Dump Steele, Hire Palin [Kevin D. Williamson]

Re: Steele and the RNC: Allow me to chime in with my usual observation on this subject: This is a job for Sarah Palin. Palin would be a much better RNC chairman than presidential candidate or freelance kingmaker. She’d raise tons of money and help recruit good candidates, i.e., she’d excel at doing the things Steele should have been doing instead of appointing himself Republican pundit-at-large.

A Chairman Palin would help set the right tone for the Republican party without having to get herself entangled in the minutiae of policy-development, which has not been her forte. Sure, she’d be polarizing, but so is Barack Obama, and these are polarized times. And it’s one thing to have a polarizing party chairman, another to have a polarizing candidate.

Anybody disagree?


32 posted on 07/03/2010 12:07:29 PM PDT by yongin
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To: yongin

Not even a mention of Giuliani? Thank goodness republican infatuation with that unreliable, liberal toad has finally subsided.

Still, some disturbing news here. Last election cycle I was pretty much a Tancredo fan in the beginning (one of the few politicians out there, at the time, who’d taken a really firm stance on illegal immigration and what needed to be done about it) but Romney charmed me in the early debates. However, It didn’t take much investigating at all to reveal him as a charlatan.

So I’m not understanding how he’s still at the top of the polls. The only donations he even got last time came from himself; how much debt did he end the cycle with?

He is NOT a strong candidate. However, perhaps he is just liberal enough to strip independents and moderate democrats away from Obama? And is that possibility in itself enough for conservatives to justify selling out their principles - AGAIN - supporting a RINO just to keep a lib out of office?

I still consider supporting Sarah, but I’m going to admit I’m worried she might be a little thin-skinned for the job. We have a president right now who throws a fit every time someone criticizes him (all his critics are racists, dontcha know - something even a lot of Freepers pushed during the primaries to make the Clintons look bad, without thinking of unintended consequences). But Sarah can’t afford to let late night comedians get to her - and to go after Letterman personally, over a really stupid joke, really did take away some of that presidential stature. And I’m not sure she can recover from the whole governor issue, either. We know why she stepped down, but I think we also know most people out there don’t pay as much attention as we do.

And, of course, there’s that special branch of conservative that bashes Palin no matter what she does... For example, did you know that Sarah is a sell-out for saying McCain deserves to be in the senate, even though she was considered a hero just two years ago when she was saying he deserved to be president? When you’re able to figure out any sort of logic in that thinking, I’d like to know how it works! I understand most of us only supported McCain because of Palin, but the idea that she herself felt that way, or should, is a bit bizarre.

Jindal does not impress me, with his current “the government does too much”/”the government doesn’t do enough” multiple personality syndrome. Christie and Pawlenty I don’t know well enough - I’m looking forward to finding out more about them.


39 posted on 07/03/2010 6:52:25 PM PDT by COgamer
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