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Voted for McCain in 2008, and I also don't think that a Giuliani/Lieberman ticket would have a chance in 2012.
I've been looking to support Haley Barbour for 2012, and hope he gets a decent shot on the national stage. I don't know if he has sufficient charisma, but he is a smart guy, a great manager, and has a good track record as governor.
We like him too, but he may come across a little to country for some. if he takes it seriously he might be the bark horse. In 2008 we were 110% behind Fred THompson, what happened? I think 2 things there, again, maybe a little to country and not enough interest himself in running.
Ronnie Raygun did not meet either the moral or intellectual qualification. He was a professional actor, and very self centered man (not to mention Queen Nancy), playing the part of a president concerned for the "Real Americans" while instituting policies that actively harmed the middle class and aided his very wealthy "REAL" American friends.
Give an example of not meeting moral or intellectual qualifications, by who's stardards, the socialist??? As for self centered, tell me a President or any politician that is not. If you don't have a huge ego, you certainly are not going to make it in politics. Our current Pres is probably the most self absorbed man in America. Do you think he isn't making it?
and you have to realize, this poll is so phoney it is almost laughable. There is no way either G or L will be on the Republican ticket. So, our votes might be all over the place or many of us are responding but not voting because the poll is like too many others, very flawed.
Right now nothing is bad news for the GOP, 2 plus years down the road, who knows?
Those who vote yes to a GOP candidate no matter who it will be are party sheep who vote based on a letter rather than on real issues. This is why the interests of the voters are not accounted for.
(same with other parties of course, but this thread is about GOP)
Those who vote yes to a GOP candidate no matter who it will be are party sheep who vote based on a letter rather than on real issues. This is why the interests of the voters are not accounted for.
(same with other parties of course, but this thread is about GOP)
exactly and this has been my response over and over. I hope I can always say I vote issues and for the person, not the party. Yes, of course I normally vote Republican, but I have voted other ways many times. In fact I told my husband if a certain Republican wins the primary here and Lincoln wins I will vote for Lincoln.
I didn't vote for McCain in the last election because I didn't vote at all. Being from Arizona (which McCain easily won), if him winning here were to have been in question, I would have made sure I voted.
That being said, it would really depend on who else had campaigned and whom they would be eventually be running against. As an independent I'm OK with both of them although, when Guiliani was campaigning for president, I wondered if what didn't bother New Yorkers when they voted for him for mayor, would end up being a problem for him with the rest of the country getting votes for president.
I remember reading that while running for mayor, his campaign staff had prepared a defense (a couple of hundred pages long), in the event his opposition started to bring up issues from his past to attack him. The two that were mentioned was that he at one time was married to his first cousin and him being photographed on more than one occasion in drag. Personally, that doesn't bother me but, I can see it bothering a lot of other people, especially the part about being in drag. The explanation was that it was for Halloween or a parade (or something like that) but, as I mentioned there's more than one picture floating around (they're on the net) and the clothing differs in some of them.
What I actually wondered about was not so much him being able to get elected but, if he did, how pictures of him in drag would go over with countries like Iran for example, when having to deal with them.
I do not see ANY Republicans, either morally or intellectually, qualified to be President of the United States. Then, except for Eisenhower for whom I was too young to vote, I never have.
You "intellectual" guys slay me. Do you think a college professor, for example, is capable of running a country? A state? A city? Half your base probably didn't graduate from high school and that includes some of the big talkers in Hollywood that have it all figured out.
And they are both total weirdos. It could end up with Rudy in drag or Lieberman giving too many whiny nasal speeches. Clowns- the both of them. Surely the Reps can do better than them?
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