When Kerry wins

[PragMantisT]

Will GOP run g-dub in '08?
or Jeb?

[Dookus]

1. Neither

if Bush loses, there won't be any more Bush candidacies. Two one-term losers would be enough.

[Catholic Sensation]

2. I suspect they'll run someone like Bill Frist

or go as far right as possible and nominate Tom DeLay

[JohnKleeb]

3. thats what I heard too

[Thrill]

5. Who cares?

Kerry will win two terms and then his VP Edwards will win the next one

[mot78]

4. The BFEE is tainted if they blow it

The Repugs will realize they shouldn't have sold their souls to the BFEE...and nominate Bugman or Cat-killer.

[Cuban_Liberal]

6. I don't think they'll go to the Bush 'well' again.

Two one-term, disgraced Presidents, father and son... As they say in Indiana, "A burned child will fear fire".

[usscole]

7. The Republicans will run a governor in 2008

Frist would be subject to the same line of attack as is currently being used on Kerry. You could make a flip-flopper argument against just about anyone who has been in Congress any significant amount of time. I think Pataki is a likely choice.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Neither.

I'm looking for Hagle to run. Maybe Frist and Santorum. :puke:

[Lizz612]

9. Oh goodness!

If Santorum runs! ROFL! I can see the signs in my head now! Dan Savage readers would just laugh all the way to the voting booth.

[damnraddem]

10. Who cares?

They won't have a shot until 2012, anyway.

[leyton]

11. Certainly not Dubya. And why Jeb?

Many moderates in the party fear a Bush re-election because it would mean the further entrenchment of the ultra-right. I think in 2008 there will be a backlash against Bush's horrible policies (any smart Republican ought to disagree with them too) and they will nominate someone closer to the center who they think will stay there.

And I don't get why people here think Jeb would be nominated. Nominating a relative of a previous loser is uncommon enough, and would Republicans want three straight GOP Presidents to be of the same family? No related Presidents have ever been elected back-to-back (of course, the Bushes may be the first related Presidents to belong to the same party). Besides, what does Jeb Bush have that Pataki, Perry, or Romney doesn't? Or Frist?

I know someone will post that the Bushes control the GOP. I think Bush does now because he's the de facto leader of the party and will be until this coming January. But a defeated Presidential candidate does not lead his party, and I think Frist will emerge as the leader of the GOP just as Daschle was the leader during the middle years of the Bush administration.