Odds on the 2008 GOP nominee

Rice doesn't have any political (as in being elected) experience.

Keyes. I don't know much about him, but the little I've heard of him in his Illinois run, the less I care for him.

21 posted on 09/26/2004 2:09:36 PM PDT by TomGuy (His VN crumbling, he says 'move on'. So now, John Kerry is running on Bob KerrEy's Senate record.)

On the other hand...

LAURA & BARBARA 2008!!

22 posted on 09/26/2004 2:09:52 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)

My wife already had a few 'Keyes/Rice 2008' bumper stickers made up.

Keyes is currently trailing Obama in the polls by 45 points. You don't suppose that might diminish his attractiveness as a presidential candidate, do you?

23 posted on 09/26/2004 2:11:11 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)

To: Mark in the Old South

I'm not endorsing Giuliani. I merely said that the way things are going, I think he'll be the nominee. I'm likely completely wrong.

So who do you think will run in 2008?

24 posted on 09/26/2004 2:11:25 PM PDT by Terpfen (Wanted: Laura Ingraham's leopard miniskirt picture. Links welcomed!)

Here's clintonh8r's Hail Mary prediction:

Cheney will resign during the second Bush term. W will appoint the following VP to set him up as the frontrunner for the nomination:

Christopher Cox.

25 posted on 09/26/2004 2:13:08 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against Jean-France Kerry.)

I'd throw up consistently

Ditto...I don't think it could happen, fortunately.

26 posted on 09/26/2004 2:13:46 PM PDT by ErnBatavia ("Dork"; a 60's term for a 60's kinda guy: JFK)

To: ArmyBratCutie

I love Rummy, too, but he wouldn't consider it.

27 posted on 09/26/2004 2:13:52 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)

But wouldn't it be a hoot watching the "racially sensitive" democrats eat themselves alive?

I think the Republicans would also eat themselves alive with that ticket.

28 posted on 09/26/2004 2:14:07 PM PDT by RobFromGa (A desperate man is a dangerous man, and Kerry is getting desperate.)

Whoever compiled this list can't be a Constitutional scholar, Arnold is not eligible to run.

29 posted on 09/26/2004 2:14:14 PM PDT by pubmom (Suffering from DITS (Democrat induced tourette's syndrome)since 1992.)

To: toomanygrasshoppers

30 posted on 09/26/2004 2:16:02 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)

"Sen. John McCain will never be the nominee of the GOP"

I agree but the Dems could (and have already tried to)nominate him. Watch for Hillary! to slip some glass in his chow soon after this election.

31 posted on 09/26/2004 2:18:36 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (W'04)

To: toomanygrasshoppers

Romney would make a great campaigner and would carry on the GOPlegacy of values and common sense.

32 posted on 09/26/2004 2:19:38 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)

I personally think Giuliani will be the nominee."""

Rudy's on his third marriage - and, reportedly, overtly carried on with other women during his first two. This is a candidate for the "family values" party?

33 posted on 09/26/2004 2:19:41 PM PDT by churchillbuff

Guiliani/Tommy Franks

34 posted on 09/26/2004 2:19:59 PM PDT by tkathy (There will be no world peace until all thuggocracies are gone from the earth.)

I do not know. I am not sure Rudy will even try. If he wants a sure thing I think he might run against Rodham for Senate in 2006. If she runs again the loss would be a huge wound that may prevent her from getting the DNC nod in 2008. She is crafty and may not even try to run against Rudy for the Senate. Even if she won she would have one bloody nose for the effort.

A lot can happen in 4 years, esp. these days. Look for the Governors. A Senator often gets top of the ticket but rarely wins.

35 posted on 09/26/2004 2:20:11 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South

Only clintoon moles would want Guiliani.

36 posted on 09/26/2004 2:23:21 PM PDT by Mark in the Old South

Lindsey Graham = No First Lady. Maybe the reason he is a whiney boy is that he isn't married.

37 posted on 09/26/2004 2:23:58 PM PDT by Amanda King

Bill First 5/2

My Senator. I like him a lot... as my Senator. Not a chance in hell.

John McCain 7/2

Captain Queeg? You've got to be joking!

Rudolph Guiliani 7/2

My favorite, particularly if we are still fully engaged in the war, which is likely.

George Pataki 9/2

YASACCR - yet another stiff assed country club Republican

Chuck Hagel 6

Puleeeze! If I wanted Hagel I'd be voting for Kerry this time and '08 wouldn't be an issue

Mitt Romney 6

Successful businessman, Governor now, but of Massachusetts? And the whole Olympics thing is just one step removed from the UN. I don't think so.

Bill Owens 8

Bill who?

Tom Ridge 8

I hate to say this, but he doesn't look Presidential. He just looks..... odd. That shouldn't be an issue, and it probably wouldn't be for me once the campaign got started, but I think it would hurt him in the long run and make him less likely to win.

George Allen 12

Another Senator. A former governor, though, and that's to the good. But he's also a lawyer. I don't know enough about him, but Senators don't become President very often.

Norm Coleman 12

Yet another Senator. And another lawyer, to boot.

Lindsey Graham 14

Yet another Senator. Yet another Lawyer. And the failed impeachment of Bill Clinton will be a death knell

Sam Brownback 14

YAS. YAL. But he's also a farmer. Hmmmmmmmmmmm? Do Kansans become President? It's fly over country, but Eisenhower was an adopted Kansan, but does that count?

Arnold Schwarzenegger 66

Um..... Constitution? It might be possible, but I sincerely doubt it. Now, he has maintained his dual citizenship in Austria, so President of the EU is more intriguing.

Dick Cheney 66

I'd vote for him in a heart beat. He'd have to overcome 4 years of outrageous lies about him and Halliburton, which I don't think the media would allow him to do.

Jeb Bush 66

Good choice. I'd vote for him. Not a chance that a third Bush would be elected President so soon.

Laura Bush 100

I don't believe for an instant that she'd run.

38 posted on 09/26/2004 2:26:51 PM PDT by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)

To: churchillbuff

Limbaugh's separated from his third wife and currently dating. I haven't heard of his ratings plummeting in light of that.

39 posted on 09/26/2004 2:28:09 PM PDT by Terpfen (Wanted: Laura Ingraham's leopard miniskirt picture. Links welcomed!)

Bill Owens is the best possible candidate out of the entire list and would make a good President.

Bill First and George Allen are big question marks right now.

John McCain is conservative enough, but to much of a mavarick.

Rudolph Guiliani, George Pataki, Tom Ridge and Mitt Romney are way too liberal to be a GOP nominee for Prez.

Chuck Hagel is a losse cannon and not a team player.

Norm Coleman, Lindsey Graham and Sam Brownback are longshots at this point.

I don't think the nation is ready for Jeb Bush to be POTUS.

Dick Cheney and Laura Bush aren't gonna run.

And RINO Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't eligible to be POTUS.

How about a GOP ticket of Bill Owens and Rick Santorum?

40 posted on 09/26/2004 2:28:39 PM PDT by Reagan Man (.....................................................The Choice is Clear....... Re-elect BUSH-CHENEY)

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