A.) Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN)
B.) Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK)
C.) Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA)
D.) Fmr. Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY)
E.) Fmr. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
F.) Someone else?

And to Democrats who want to answer: If you really have nothing better to do than skew the results of this unscientific poll, I guess there’s no helping you, so go ahead.

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- Jon Huntsman: Works for Obama now. OUT.
- John McCain: OUT
- Sarah Palin: OUT
- Bobby Jindal: Made a pathetic speech about Obama’s stimulus plan. OUT
- Mike Huckabee: Won’t win outside the Southern states since he’s a moronic conservative. OUT.
- Mitt Romney: He’s Mormon, so he loses 25% of the vote. OUT.
- Michael Steele: Would be playing the race card. OUT.
- Rush Limbaugh: OUT.
- Newt Gingrich: How many times has this guy been married and divorced? OUT.

Lmao, who are the Repubes going to run in 2012? Barney the Dinosaur? He’s better than the rest of the party.

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Seems like political pundits keep mentioning people from the 2008 campaign – Romney, Huckabee, and Palin (heaven forbid) – as the most likely candidates.

Other names that keep coming up include Newt Gingrich (by 2012, 14 years would have passed since he held public office) and Rudy Giuliani (by 2012, 11 years would have passed since he held public office).

Two of the most highly respected Republicans in the US – Senators Richard Lugar and Chuck Grassley – will be way too old to run. Ditto for John McCain.

The GOP leaders in Congress – McConnell and Boehner – come across as being obstructionists who haven’t been able to generate any alternative plans to what Obama proposes.

As for the better known Republican governors… Arnold can’t run since he wasn’t born here, Rick Perry (TX) blew it after the seccesionist remarks earlier this year, Charlie Crist (FL) is too moderate for most Repubs, Bobby Jindhal (LA) is really young and didn’t make a good impression in the Repub’s response to the SotU address, Haley Barbour (MS) is a spitting image of the liberals’ stereotype of Republican politicians – an old white buffoon, and Mitch Daniels (IN) is an Arab-American (a non-starter for evangelicals) whose governing style is very heavy-handed.

Doesn’t look like the GOP has many options for 2012. Are there any rising stars that I am not aware of?

No Obama 2012

John McCain already lost to Obama and will be too old to run again.

Sarah Palin is the Republican frontrunner. How sad. No one even likes her anymore because she proved herself to be too unintelligent for the position in her interview with Katie Couric. She is also a complete loon, completely off her rockers!

Bobby Jindal is a minority which helps but he would be outwitted by Obama in the debates. To me, Jindal is the GOP’s best hope because of his minority status.

Mitt Romney is the second-best hope that the GOP has because of his style, looks and well-spokenness. He could get a lot of female voters to vote for him. What hurts him more than anything is his newfound pro-life position on abortion, which will scare off moderates and lots of women. The last thing we need is another Christian fundie dictating social policy!

Mike Huckabee has a good personality and has a good sense of humor (major plus there) but this is the 21st Century and no one wants an uber-religious Christian conservative calling the shots in the White House.

Rudy Giuliani hasn’t been active in politics since Bloomberg took over as NYC mayor. Also, 9/11 was a long time ago.

Ron Paul’s positions are way too extreme to win a Republican nomination and it would make no sense for him to run as a meaningless third party candidate, so he’s out of the running.

George P. Bush gets points because he is Mexican and can get that all-important Hispanic vote. He loses points because he shares the same last name as the worst president of all time, George W. Bush.

Jeb Bush lacks the Hispanic support that the younger, half-Hispanic George P. Bush has. He also did a lousy job as Florida’s governor. Incompetence must run in the Bush family.

Michael Steele counterbalances Obama’s blackness, but the black community recognizes that he is nothing more than an Uncle Tom a la Alan Keyes.

Newt Gingrich needs to get it through his head that the 90’s were a long time ago. He was a laughing stock then and he would be an even bigger laughing stock in 2012! Give it up already, your five minutes are up!

Tom Tancredo appeals to the xenophobe Lou Dobbs-watching anti-Mexican faction, not to mainstream Americans. The open-minded Obamanation would crush him.

Rush Limbaugh…I won’t even go there! Everybody hates him now!

The rest of the GOP…old, washed-up, bitter, white men who bankrupted this country with their crooked crony capitalism. Obama will turn this country around and then the Republican Party will be dead…good riddance!

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Charlie Crist – Running for Florida Senate now.
Bobby Jindal – Total joke after his horrible speech against Obama’s stimulus plan.
Mitt Romney – He’s Mormon, which means he loses 25% of voters automatically.
Mike Huckabee – Only a moron would vote for this guy who thinks the Constitution needs to be “up to God’s standards.”
Newt Gingrich – LMAO. This guy has been married and divorced how many times?
John McCain – Don’t even need to touch this one.
Jon Huntsman – Works for Obama now.
Sarah Palin – LMAO. She has NO chance at winning. Many believe her nomination is what brought McCain down anyways.

So uh.. who are you guys running in 2012 again? Looks like another landslide for Obama.
Tim Pawlenty – After letting the Minnesota senate race drag on this far (when it is clear Al Franken has won), he can kiss his presidential hopes goodbye. He does not care about Minnesota’s representation, only his party’s image.
LMAO, Jeb Bush? Okay, it’s clear: Republicans have no chance at winning in 2012 now.

Vote Palin

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Conservative activists on Saturday named former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of a poll for best 2012 GOP presidential candidate.

The poll marked the third consecutive year Romney came out on top.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal placed second in the annual poll, conducted at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The choices in the poll were: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist; former House speaker Newt Gingrich; former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Jindal; Texas Rep. Ron Paul; Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin; Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty; Romney; South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, and “Undecided.” There’s also space on the ballot for a write-in candidate.

The results, culled from the party’s most resolute activists, could go a long way in shoring up a presidential hopeful’s conservative resume, as was the case with Romney when he won the straw poll in 2007 for 2008.”

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/28/cpac/index.html

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