Who would you rather run against in 2008?

[smoogatz]

Poll question: Who would you rather run against in 2008?

Which of the following Republican hacks (and likely presidential candidates) will be the biggest, slowest target for the newly-energized Democratic party in 2008? Who will be easiest and/or most pleasurable to beat?

[jsw_81]

1. Frist!

Kerry would whip his ass good. The only ones I fear are Rice, Powell and McCain. Luckily for us they'll never get the GOP nomination in a million years.

[Wickerman]

2. Where's Newt, "I spit on your grave" Gingrich?

nice poll, btw. :thumbsup:

[smoogatz]

4. Good God--you're right!

How could I forget old love-em-and-leave-em-on-their-deathbeds Newt?

[antigone382]

3. I don't think he'll run, but Dick Cheney has zero likability.

During the heat of the election campaign, he had about a 27% approval rate...about equal to the number of slobberingly loyal repukes. He just looks evil and conspiring, and he has WAY too much baggage to deal with. If I could run against anyone, it would be either him or Delay.

[iconoclastNYC]

5. Condi in a debate would be so fun to watch

I bet you could get her to explode. She always looks on the verge in her confirmation hearings.

[Eliot Spitzer 2006]

6. Easiest to Beat from first to last

Tom Delay, Newt Gingrich, Dick Cheney (although he won't run), Bill Frist, Jeb (he won't run this time either - too many Bushes too close together), Condi Rice, Colin Powell, John McCain and the toughest to beat, Rudy Guiliani.

[smoogatz]

11. Three words: Rudy in Drag

Remember the SNL sketch from a few years back? He'll never live it down out in Jesusland.

[Eliot Spitzer 2006]

15. Rudy will have a tough time with the repub nomination

but he'd be tough to beat nationally.

[smoogatz]

17. You make a good point.

He's a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, divorced Catholic. No way in hell he's the nominee, now that the Republicans are the Baptist Jesus party. If a freak accident occurred and he was the nominee, he loses nationally because he's a bald New Yorker. Really. Presidents have to have hair and not be from New York.

[Eliot Spitzer 2006]

23. Besides the bald head

I think he would be a formidable candidate for the repubs. I am doubtful that he could win the primary but if he does, he would be tough to beat for the very centrist positions on social issues which you mention. That plus the fact that he's a tough "law and order" guy, tough on terrorism and his record in New York would all be pluses. All of this is moot until we know who each candidate is - but if it's Rudy vs. Hillary, then Rudy wins.

You're comment about being bald and from New York concerns me though because I am huge Eliot Spitzer fan. Oh well.

[smoogatz]

24. Spitzer will make an excellent US Atty General

For the next Democratic President, assuming there is such a thing. I'm a fan, too.

[Save The World]

7. Brownback

An old-style conservative Republican would have about as much chance as Bob Dole did. Rice would be very, very dangerous but, luckily, she's probably not running.

[noonwitch]

8. Condi would be easy to beat

Racists, who usually vote GOP, will stay home rather than vote for a black person. My 92 year old grandpa wouldn't vote for her, he'd stay home. He did in the MI governor's race in 1986, when a black republican (William Lucas, who switched parties to run for Gov on the repub ticket) ran against a white democrat (James Blanchard). People like my grandpa didn't vote at all.

Now, grandpa votes twice, as he casts grandma's absentee ballot for her. Grandma was a swing voter before her stroke-she voted for Reagan, but also voted for Clinton. She despises the entire Bush family, and hated Richard Nixon with a passion.

[Dinger]

9. We Could Have Some Real Fun With Jeb (nt)

[Crunchy Frog]

10. Now this is a poll I can feel comfortable voting in.

My vote was for Condi. I think she's someone even Hillary could beat. I worry that the other ones may be more electable than people give them credit for, between appealing to people's baser instincts and the use of election fraud.

I think Condi is so unattractive that she would overcome even these advantages, and I think she would be weaker than many other Repubs in the racist South. It's not nice to point out, but I think it's true.

Unfortunately, I think we're probably going to end up with Frist.

[sellitman]

12. Are you friggin nuts? Oh my what STUPID people we have on DU!

Anyone on that list will wipe our asses




UNLESS THE|MACHINES GET FIXED!!!!!!!!

[Stand and Fight]

13. Newt, Newt, Newt!!!

He'd be the best player on our team.

[ZootSuitGringo]

14. How could you not want Fritz to run?

He's super see through and a real dick.

I'd say he doesn't quite come off the way the nuts see the Bush.

[AP]

16. McCain activates a lot of the conservative frames in way that might

resonate with voters. He would distract democrats from caring about the issues on which Democrats are strong. That could be tough. However, I think there are plenty of good democrats who could shift the focus back on to the Democrats' best issues.

Frist might also be tough because he's a doctor. However, I think Frist is also a symbol of what's wrong with the health care profession (big corporations are making all the money, which makes it harder for doctors and patients to give and get good health care. I think Frist could be easy to present to the public for what he is, but you'd have to cut through some of the bullshit they'll throw up for him. (Remember when he and a nurse were driving around FL and came upon a car accident, at which Frist administered first aid? Ugh.)

[apnu]

18. Other: Chimpy McDumbass will run for a third term!

But everybody won't have the guts to tell him that he can't. The press will give him a pass, and blame the Democrats for being 'partisan' by bringing up old, out date rules that don't apply to the moral 'center' of the nation.

[AntiCoup2K4]

21. And the DLC will support him.

"Clearly the 22nd ammendment was written for the benefit of McGovernite Neo leftists who wish to alienate the centrist base of this country" - said Will Marshall of the Democratic Leadership Council "We see nothing wrong with the President being able to run again, and with electronic voting machines now present in all 50 states, a fair and honest vote count is guaranteed, without the controversy of the last two elections"

[apnu]

22. wow is that ever a creepy quote...

got a source for that?

[ThorsHammer]

19. Jeb, most Americans don'w want dynasties

[JPZenger]

20. Possible that GOP Congress Will Screw Up So Bad...

It is possible that the GOP Congress will screw up so bad, that the GOP will be forced to find a governor as a Presidential candidate - who cannot be blamed for the mess.

[Hippo_Tron]

25. Bill Owens

Colorado is becoming bluer by the minute and he will keep it in their column. Granted if the guy were up for re-election he might be beatable.

[Deaniac20]

26. 2 words: DAN QUAYLE

oh god please i will suck my own dick for this to happen