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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:25 AM
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Who would you like to see enter the Republican Presidential race?
Will an anti-Bush/Cheney candidate emerge?

Who would that be and could a Republican anti-Bush/Cheney movement win in 2008?

Are there any Republicans you would trust as President?
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:26 AM
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1. Joe Lieberman.
it would be the first honest thing he's done in about a decade.

TC
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Bullet1987 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:27 AM
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2. Satan
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Totally Committed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:55 AM
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10. Not a safe choice. Cheney's already made him look good....
We could end up with a Jeb/Satan ticket, and then we'd be sorry! :sarcasm:

TC
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:17 PM
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16. Satan can't run for a third term, silly.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:28 AM
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3. George Allen
Tom DeLay, Rick Santorum, Mark Foley. I think they have plenty of free time these days.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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RoBear Donating Member (781 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:32 AM
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4. Jeff Gannon...
n/t
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:36 AM
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5. Dan Quayle!
His hair is greying around the temples. Still dumb as a pile of squirrel shit.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 05:25 PM
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38. Squirrel shit is deeply offended by your comparison
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:45 AM
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6. Assuming the OP is looking for serious responses, I'd say I'm
Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 11:45 AM by wienerdoggie
more than happy with the current Loser Lineup. I think we dodged a bullet with Hagel staying out--why wish now for a good candidate on THEIR side? We're going to win--I believe this more and more as the weeks go by.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 01:42 PM
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18. Is the current line-up just a bunch of Cheney stand-ins?
Are they trotting out a bunch of lame horses to make the old plug look better?
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 02:47 PM
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21. Well, I think the lineup is being groomed to take the neocon puppet position,
at any rate. Rudy is being coached by Norman Podhoretz on the Middle East (God help us), Romney's backed by Bushies, and Thompson is being helped by the Cheney family and Mary Matalin. There's not a good apple in the bunch, unless you count Ron Paul, and he won't be a factor.
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:49 AM
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7. the Arnold
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featherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:53 AM
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8. Dick Cheney
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:08 PM
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13. I've always assumed he would be the candidate, and is waiting for the last minute
to deflect as much criticism as possible, as long as possible. However, I think Cheney might get beaten by an internal popular rebellion if a good, squeaky-clean choice enters the race. The current crowd of dummies may be there to pave the way for their "Savior." Maybe a religious leader would outrun the current stable.
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Tom Rinaldo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 11:53 AM
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9. Once I might have said Pete McCloskey
But he abandoned the Republican Party this year and became one of us!

"Welcome Pete McCloskey, Newly Registered Democrat in California
Former Member of Congress and Life Time Republican Leaves the GOP"
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/04/welcome_pete_mc.html
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JohnnyLib2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:01 PM
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11. So, I thought and thought about this and--

there is no one in sight. It's stunning to think that the current Repub leadership has eclipsed any others who might once have been considered.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:06 PM
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12. Cthulu
why vote for the lesser evil?
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Milo_Bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:08 PM
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14. Lincoln Chafee
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flaminbats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 04:12 PM
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28. Lincoln Chaffee would make a great President..
but too bad Republicans would never vote for him, even if nominated!

Gordon Smith, Chris Shays, and Olympia Snowe are a few others who have some sanity.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:13 PM
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15. mark foley - someone no one will vote for. eom
Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 12:13 PM by ellenfl
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jmp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 12:22 PM
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17. I'd like to see Jeb step up and get his butt kicked in.
And end the Bush dynasty for good.
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 01:44 PM
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19. I can tell you who I DON'T want to see....Chuck Hagel.
He probably still owns ES&S, the electronic voting machine company second only to DIEBOLD in corruption.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 02:44 PM
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20. I think he still has about $5 million in ownership of the PARENT company.
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 04:10 PM
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27. Which owns the machines which elected him Senator in the first place.
I fear for our democracy if he runs.
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Pyrzqxgl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 03:35 PM
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22. I might trust Abraham Lincoln but its gonna be hard to get him to run.
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Perry Logan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 03:38 PM
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23. If Lincoln were alive today, there'd be a special unit of the RNC assigned to smearing him.
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 10:49 AM
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30. Character assasination? Would that be the "Kennedy unit?"
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draft_mario_cuomo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 03:49 PM
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24. Gingrich. He would have a shot at winning the nomination and be unelectable in the GE
A Gingrich nomination would sew up the White House for us.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 03:59 PM
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25. Yes--THAT is someone new I'd like to see enter the race--he and Thompson
could beat the shit out of each other for the religious-redneck vote, Rudy and Mitt would lock up the Northern Repubs who get boners over the thought of torture and terra, and we could sit back and LAUGH till we pee our pants.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 04:02 PM
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26. Tancredo!
The Dems could run an e.coli culture as the opposing ticket and still nab forty-nine states.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-20-07 04:12 PM
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29. LOL! Good one!
Edited on Fri Jul-20-07 04:12 PM by wienerdoggie
edit to add: the e coli would still be smarter and better-qualified.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 10:53 AM
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31. Bill O'Reilly
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rasputin1952 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 02:35 PM
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32. Hitler would have made a good neo-con....
the present field lacks a good representation of Hitler, they're all Hitler wannabes , but they don't have that certain "oomph".

On the serious side, the GOP has been so battered by the current jughead, it may take them a generation to get any credibility back. There is not one GOP individual I can see that would make a good president....the days of Lincoln/Eisenhower are dead and gone for the GOP...it has become the party of fools.
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 02:40 PM
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33. Osama bin Laden is a good republican n/t
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lutefisk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 03:32 PM
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34. William Cohen ....n/t
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ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 03:40 PM
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35. Sonny Bono
Posthumously...
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SOS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 04:30 PM
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36. Eisenhower
but today's Republican's would call him a liberal and smear his military record.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-21-07 05:17 PM
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37. No one. Down with the GOPers forever!
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