Which GOP candidate scares you the most, if elected? (health care, legal, Republican)

[undfan]

It would have been interesting if Obama was included in the poll. Another term without him having to worry about being re-elected is IMO, the scariest. The others would at least have to consider job security.

[Donna-501]

All of them.

[Evenstar51]

Originally Posted by wutitiz

I voted Gingrich because he is smart, and loaded with experience of how to get things done in DC. He would be able to get more done than the others; the problem is, they would not be good things, because Gingrich, like Mitt & Rick, is not a real conservative.

While I agree that Santorum has a screw loose, I'm with wutitiz: Gingrich knows every K Street regular and is savvy in the ways of lobbyists. He's too volatile and, frankly, not intellectually capable of the multi-tasking that being president requires. If even George Will is terrified at the thought of Gingrich "having his finger on the button," who am I to argue?
Either Newt or Santorum would be disastrous.

[banjomike]

None of them, but I'm sticking with the guy I hired in '08 so I have no horse in this race.
If this was not so, then Santorum would worry me... the guy has a real fascist thing going on underneath the surface, and he has a hot temper. Bad combo, bad mojo.

[Savoir Faire]

Sanitorium would fit in perfect in Saudia Arabia if their god was called Jesus.

[skoro]

Gingrich

He's a complete pyscho who has convinced millions of republicans that he's an "intellectual." He strikes me as a guy who honestly feels he's being cheated out of his rightful place in the history books by an ungrateful nation.

His finger on the trigger would be extremely itchy.

[LoveToRow]

Originally Posted by Donna-501

All of them.

Unsurprisingly, you've bought into the DNC's propaganda campaign of fear. It's all they have to run on since their policies are proven failures.

[Frank DeForrest]

Aside from Ron Paul, all of em and this would include the present dictator Obama.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by nep321

So, here we go...

Romney is the king of flip-flopping and will say ANYTHING to win primaries and get elected. He has said that he doesn't care about the very poor, and he hangs out with Donald Trump, and is a 1-percenter.

Santorum just scares me. He is a reconstructionist who wants to transform the U.S. into a theocracy where pornography is illegal, abortion and gay marriage is banned, and contraception is banned. Scary indeed.

Gingrich has a very erratic personality, carries a TON of baggage, and wants to take action to prevent the U.S. from becoming a more secular nation, which goes against what our founding fathers intended.

Paul has a frightening idea of foreign policy, and his proposals are just very extreme. He virtually wants no government intervention whatsoever. Sounds like total anarchy to me.

So, who do you think is the scariest of all?

Obama.

You have their descriptions wrong. You are giving them President powers that belong to Congress.

Mitt Romney is a flip flopper on just about everything. He has the right experience to manage the country. He's the ONLY candidate on the GOP side with that experience. I trust him with his cabinet picks that have to do with managing the economy. I think that his goal to save the country from spending itself into oblivion is fine and with him, I actually believe it's do-able. I trust him with his cabinet picks for foreign policy. Since he has no experience in that area, I trust he'll make the right choices. I trust him with removing onerous regulation. I DON'T trust him with his Supreme Court nominations. REALLY. This scares me because his picks will be on the bench longer than he'll be in office. I also think if he gets a Democrat House and Senate, he'll try to appease them just like he did in Liberal Massachusetts when he flip flopped to Liberal Mitt Romney (or did he flip flop to conservatism later? Who is this guy?). I don't like that the Republican Machine and its TV news media establishment minions are trying to force him on us like they forced John McCain on us. I think he might be beholden to Wall Street.



You have the wrong problem for Rick Santorum. His REAL PROBLEM is bigger. The President doesn't control any of that stuff. Congress would have to put the social bills on his desk to sign. That ain't gonna happen. He'll be a good role model for family values and that's where it will end. He has no executive experience. I'm a person who doesn't think a person's first shot at managing something big should be an entire country. Unlike Romney, I trust his Supreme Court picks. Santorum is scary because of his BIG GOVERNMENT voting record. It's all we have to judge him by and it's frightening. What if a Democrat House and Senate or a weak Republican version put BIG GOVERNMENT bills on his desk. He would sign them. Voted against food stamp reform. Voted twice for internet taxes. Voted twice for a Congressional payraise. Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections. Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion. Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans. Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak. Sponsored an amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million. Voted against a flat tax. Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens. Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt. Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants. Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts. Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military. Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge. Voted against National Right to Work Act. Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board. Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws. Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors. Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans. Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion. Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies. Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement. Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years. Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing. There are Blue Dog Democrats with better voting records than Rick Santorum. http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/0...-looks-like-2/


Ron Paul does have different foreign policy ideas than the others but I see his bigger problem is that he isn't qualified to do the job. There is absolutely nothing in his resume to show he can run a big country (or even a small state) plus he has zero accomplishments you can point to despite all of his years in Congress. If Barack Obama wasn't qualified to be President (and he wasn't) in 2008, then neither is Ron Paul. We don't need another executive with a learning curve. While I admire his monetary policy ideas, there is nothing in his record that makes me think he can accomplish anything related to them. He would be a good economic advisor in some other fiscal conservative's administration. Perhaps that's why he really hasn't gone after Romney.


Newt Gingrich is the most Inside The Beltway guy running. In fact, he might be the Most Inside the Beltway guy, period. UGH. This is the anti-change guy if you are talking about changing Washington DC and I really don't care what the idiots on Capitol Hill say about him, now. Where other folks leave DC after leaving office, he's still in the area milking it. I also don't care that he's cranky. What I do care about (besides his personal baggage and his unlikeable wife) is that he's not a do-er, he's an ideas guy. Every job he's ever had, and he's had a few, shows me he's in the job of generating ideas and passing them off to someone else who really has to get the job done. Look at his resume: professor (those who don't do, teach), consultant, congressman, author, documentarian, news analyst...none of those jobs go past the ideas stage. he's avoided do-er jobs his whole life. Frankly, I think he's all talk and no action because he likes it. He doesn't want to get his hands dirty. He'll tell you the history of flowers, different ways to arrange them, what flowers look best where and when they get sick, he'll tell you different ways to treat them. Just don't ask him to actually dig in the garden. Once he's done with his ideas he's on to the next big idea. He's another guy much more suited to a Presidential Advisor job and the funny part is, I bet he'd like it more, too.

I don't like any one of them. I want a fiscally conservative governor to be President, just not Romney and preferably not one from the northeast or California.

[Old Gringo]

Gingrich thinks he's Napoleon.


But he was never a little corporal

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