Wapo: 10 Republicans To Watch

[Contrary1]

This is the best they have to offer. Sarah's still



Party leaders and 2012 contenders will help give voice to the GOP as it looks to define itself.

10. Rush Limbaugh: The conservative talk radio host has seen his profile descend a bit from the heights of last month when he was in a daily back and forth with the Obama administration. But, that doesn't mean Limbaugh is any less influential. Notice in all of the stories about Bobby Jindal's Republican response on Tuesday night, Limbaugh is quoted speaking out in favor of the Louisiana governor. People within the party -- at the professional and grassroots level -- listen to and care about what Limbaugh thinks about any given issue or event. That's why he stays on the Line this month.

9. Newt Gingrich

8. Eric Cantor: My personal prediction for the next Repub party savior to be offered up.)

7. Bobby Jindal: Was Jindal's response to the Obama congressional address earlier this week a stem winder of the sort that will catapult him into a mega-star in the national political firmament a la Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic National Convention? Definitely not. Was it an unmitigated disaster that either badly diminishes or disqualifies him in 2012? Definitely not. (Can you remember one minority party response to a State of the Union? Neither can we.) To our mind, Jindal's biggest problem isn't that he sounds like Kenneth from "30 Rock" but that if he runs for reelection as governor of Louisiana in 2011 (as he has pledged to do), he will struggle to lavish the kind of attention on Iowa and New Hampshire that voters in those states have come to expect and covet. (Previous ranking: 4)

6. Tim Pawlenty

5. Mark Sanford

4. Haley Barbour

3. Michael Steele

2. Mitt Romney

1. Sarah Palin: Even in absence, the governor of Alaska is big news. Her absence from the National Governors Association meeting and CPAC over the last week created quite a stir. Why isn't she coming? Should she be? To our mind, Palin is doing the exact right thing. She doesn't need any more publicity for a while. The best thing she can do is spend most of her time in Alaska -- governing well there while also working to broaden her knowledge on national and international issues. The conservative base of the party isn't going to forget her. (Previous ranking: 1)

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2009/02/friday_line_ten_republicans_to.html?hpid=news-col-blog

[SoCalDem]

1. Do they still post the Ten Most Wanted at Post Offices?

:rofl:

[immoderate]

8. The picture of Jindal in the middle reminds me of Stephen Irkle.

--imm

[SoCalDem]

9. that's who it's supposed to remind you of

it;s a photoshop someone did of Urkel

original

[immoderate]

13. Oh. Are you sure the Urkel one isn't the PhotoShop?

Now I'm not sure how I should feel about picking that up. :silly:

Is there a Gomer Pyle one? That should work.

--imm

[Avalux]

2. Watch for WHAT? Self-implosions?

:spray:

[TwilightGardener]

3. When the brain-dead piece of Alaskan Independence trash still tops the list, you know

their ship of fools is sinking.

[WCGreen]

4. Boy that's some weak bench...

[gratuitous]

5. Isn't that nice?

The Post, assiduously licking its own taint, argues that Limbaugh is still relevant mostly because he's quoted in practically every story about Republicans. And who seeks out those quotes? Why, the lazy-ass "journalists" at the Washington Post! Singularity, baby. Limbaugh is relevant because the Post thinks he's relevant. And if you think Limbaugh is nothing more than a drug-addicted pedophile, well, you just don't understand the unique culture of Washington and the self-referential village of movers and shakers led by . . . the Washington Post.

[Kip Humphrey]

6. I think the freepers should start a draft Rush campaign... to return drugs to the White House!

[Skidmore]

7. The Night of the Living Dead.

[McCamy Taylor]

10. Why? Do the have their hands somewhere near by pocket?

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Pathetic lot..nt

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

12. Dopes and douchebags, to a person

Christ, why not add Michele Bachmann to the list and finish the job.

The GOP has a lily on its chest. Time to bury it before the smell gets any worse.

[damntexdem]

14. Yeah, keep your hand on your wallet.

And call the police if you sight one of these perps.