So who's your dream (ie most beatable) Republican nominee?

Sort of an embarrassment of riches, really. The only one I fear at all is Romney, and he just lost in the state next to the one he just finished being governor of. Whattayathink?

Corporate sponsors will open their checkbooks for whomever is nominated by the GOP. Any/all will be tough when it comes to what counts, which is wresting the swing states.

I don't say that to discourage; all these GOP candidates are beatable.

I don't think that they are favorites of big corporations. In fact, I think that the MSM would turn against them soon enough if either were the nominee (though Paul doesn't have a prayer of that).

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He seems loony enough to scare Corporate America, who'd probably rather have someone more stable like, well, any Democrat!

Huckabee, I think, is as corruptible as anyone, and he'll fall into line and do as he's told if he's the candidate. He'll find a way to rationalize it and bring it into compliance with his belief system.

I think the others are all flawed enough in the one or more of the major blocks of Republican voters that there'd be a lot of apathy. McCain gets some of that too, but not as much.

The MSNBC was rolling on the floor laughing at McCain's speech last night. That's not a good sign you're a strong candidate.

He's a tortured war veteran. Hard to attack him without the Republican Attack Machine spinning it so that it looks like you're picking on a former POW. Fox would get so much milage out of that it would be silly. I can hear their talking heads now. "How dare (insert democratic nominee here) say that McCain is crazy for wanting to expand Gitmo? He's a veteran and ex-POW!!" Now, you know and I know it's a complete straw man, but to Dumbkin Mcdipshit on the street, they might think it's a hell of an argument. I'm must afriad that the Republicans would play the Veteran/POW card at every turn with McCain and the independents we need might buy it.

The stingy rank and file are not going to like Hucksterbible's mixture of piety and populism. The fundies are going to loathe Rudy Garland, Mittens, and even Half Dead Fred. Keyes is only in there for comic relief and to prove they're not a bunch of pudgy, racist white guys. McCain is not beloved by fundies because of the moderate false image he cultivated for too long. A lot of military can't forgive him for playing kissy face with Stupid after Stupid trashed his military record in 2000. Paul is a libertarian and seen as an extremist in too many of his views. The PNAC will do anything to get him out of the race.

I've seen cracks in the Reagan coalition between the super rich and the super religious for about 5 years now. This is the election that will turn them into chasms, no matter who gets the nod.

president.

i dont like them, but they are not completely nuts.

The rest would be put away by a Democratic candidate without much difficulty (unless there's some major scandal).

Even so, I think the Democratic candidate would beat McCain over the long campaign.

Put Hillary Clinton up against Huckabee and they'll install her the way they installed GW Bush. It won't actually be a victory of course, but it might look like one for awhile.

Like solo arm-wrestling.

McCain looks like an Abramoff clone, if you look at the Indian gaming money flowing his way.

McCain was in charge of the Republican-controlled investigation into Abramoff just before the 2004 vote.
He saved Bush by keeping the lid on until after the 2004 vote. In my book, he is a made member of the Corrupt Bastards Club.

in the making -- a yet-to-evolve southern, fundamentalist preacher telling America and the world the are wrong to believe in science.
:rofl: It might begin the complete unraveling of religious belief system credibility once and for all. :rofl:

even if he is talking at the time. :rofl:

On edit, forgot the rofl.

Never mind

At some point, all the good Christians are going to want to burn some crooks at the stake in the public square.
It's just the fundamentalist thing to do, after taking a real raping from the Corrupt Bastards Club.
Intolerance and criminality are such a bad mix, it just has to explode in someone's face.

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:rofl: You never know when up is down and down is up :rofl:

because it will make the right wing come out from under their rocks!