The GOP Still Needs a Candidate (Can any of the present candidates beat Barack Obama?)

National Review ^ | 09/26/2011 | Michael Barone

[Fawn]

Cain or Romney can beat him...

[gunnyg]

“The GOP Still Needs a Candidate (Can any of the present candidates beat Barack Obama?) “
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Y’mean BESIDES RP?????

[PaleoBob]

People should STOP asking can the candidate beat Obama and START asking would it make much difference if they did.

[dps.inspect]

Who? oh, Herman Cain? never mind him or the fact that he cleaned the clocks of Perry and Romney (Republican’s top picks before they imploded), we need someone who can win...

[Doofer]

I have the greatest respect for Michael Barone but he must be losing it...

[cableguymn]

Who couldn’t beat him?

Ok, probably Romney. How do you beat Zero on his obamacare record when you supported it.

But even an empty orange juice can could beat him.

[OldNavyVet]

I'm hoping for none other than Sarah Palin as the next President of the United States ...

A reading of her two books is highly recommended, and watching the Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated" is too. That film's trailer is at

http://victoryfilmgroup.com/theundefeatedmovie/

[Doofer]

People should STOP asking can the candidate beat Obama and START asking would it make much difference if they did.

It won't, the real power in this country is with the Federal Reserve and the Banksters.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Ruprecht, the monkey boy,a Steve Martin Character from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, could beat Obama and the MSM know it but the media will NEVER say it.

Obama is “dead Man Walking’..

[E. Pluribus Unum]

She’s ineluctable.

[hsalaw]

Any of them can beat Obama just by asking “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Barone is an establishment Republican, trying to pick our candidate. There’s a lot of time left for the candidates to stop picking on each other, and start making a coherent case for ridding ourselves of Obama.

[Jim Scott]

Michael Barone pretty much says that the door is open for a genuine conservative to enter the GOP primary race and win the nomination. I hope Sarah Palin reads this. The leftmedia has made turned the meme that 'Palin can't win' into a shibboleth that holds no real substance, as some recent polls showed. Obama is falling fast in polls and I believe America is ready to dump him as president the same way American dumped Jimmy Carter in 1980. Sarah Palin has all the attributes needed to defeat Obama in 2012 and the left knows it, which is why she has been their target for the past 3 years. It hasn't worked the way the left thought it would. Palin is still standing tall, retains a lot of popularity with the Republican base and if she is the GOP nominee, she'll win. I expect Sarah Palin to declare her candidacy very soon...and I can hardly wait.

[Aria]

It won't, the real power in this country is with the Federal Reserve and the Banksters.

So that would mean Ron Paul for real change. BTW, I can't handle his foreign polity - but he makes some sense to me when he discusses "The Fed"

Cain knows a thing or two about The Fed.

[so_real]

HA! More likely there is not a single candidate on that stage that would lose to Obama. Not necessarily because they are all awesome candidates, but because Obama and his administration have done such a thorough job of destroying his own elect-ability. Obama's shrill cry of "pass the bill" is a last ditch effort by his handlers to fleece the taxpayers one last time before he is ousted. Michele Bachmann said it best when she relayed on stage that for once we don't have to settle. We get to put a real conservative in the Executive Office. Unless, of course, the spineless Republicans let the fear mongering get to them. If we only set the bar at "better than Romney", we still lose -- we throw away what for many of us will be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

[IceAge]

We need a candidate who could beat Hillary plus a third party candidate.
We can’t set back and think we got it won since BO is so scuzzy. The dems are really wanting rid of him.
Someone will come up with the prize that will make him decide not to run. I am sure they have some evidence that could put him in prison if they wanted to make it public.
They just need Hillary to say yes.

[cripplecreek]

The media desperately wants us to call for more RINOs in the race.

[Sacajaweau]

Perry/Rubio can beat Obama.

[television is just wrong]

this is ridiculous with obama’s ratings in the toilet.

[kevkrom]

Oh, sure... almost every one (if not every one) of the current and potential candidates can, and likely would, beat Obama.

Is that really the point, though? We’re running headlong into a collapse, accelerated but not entirely caused by Obama’s recklessness. We need someone who is capable of putting on the brakes and stopping it.

To that end, most, if not all of the current GOP candidates are lacking. Those who have the desire don’t have the experience to show that they can follow through. Those who have the experience haven’t demonstrated the desire or will to take on the system.