Knowing what we know today, who do you think President Obama's GOP opponent will be?

[OmahaBlueDog]

Poll question: Knowing what we know today, who do you think President Obama's GOP opponent will be?

The selections were made based on the results of this poll:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/05/27/rel9a.pdf

CNN Research Poll

Interviews with 1,007 adult Americans conducted by telephone
by Opinion Research Corporation on May 24-26, 2011. The
margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

[MichiganVote]

1. Bozo the Clown

[nonperson]

3. He'd fit right in

[phasma ex machina]

23. Trump already bowed out of the race. nt

[nonperson]

2. You forgot Christie

The idiot has been denying he's running so adamantly and for so long it's almost guaranteed he'll run. Well, maybe not run, more like roll.

[JoePhilly]

4. They know they can't win.

so it will be one of the craziest of the crazies.

[Enrique]

5. Romney

the GOP's big money people are behind him.

[randr]

6. It will be whoever the MSM thinks will continue to perpetrate the division within the country

Divided we fall

[AlinPA]

7. Yes. This election will be determined by the media.

[leftstreet]

11. M$M can probably make the most $$ off Palin

without her the election will be pretty boring

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Ah, yes, elections. Verily a corporate media plot.

What or who is your alternative, then?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Mittens, unless the Mormon thing engenders a last minute mass evangelical freak-out

Not being someone who even pretends to understand those who take instructions on how to vote from their invisible sky-friends, I can't say for sure.

Be great if we could get Bachmann or Sticky Ricky Santorum in there, too, though.

[KamaAina]

9. A ficus plant

[oberliner]

10. I really don't think it's going to be Romney

He was the "shoe-in" last time around and it didn't happen.

I think, for some reason, they just will not nominate him in spite of whatever "positives" he may bring that make him some kind of front-runner.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. There is something to be said for the idea that the GOP nominates whoever is next in line.

Mitt has waited patiently.

[oberliner]

16. But how did he lose last time?

McCain was at the bottom of the pack when the debates started and he is basically another Romney type in terms of appealing to the "moderates" in the party.

I think this year they either go far right or maybe go Guiliani - he is as much "next in line" as anybody.

[OmahaBlueDog]

22. Romney is really no better off than he was four years ago

Perhaps the theory would be that he's appeal to conservative leaning independents, and that Republicans would hold their nose and follow along.

Romney brought us the model for health care that ended up becoming the HCR bill. Now, of course, he wants to repeal HCR. So, Romney was for HCR before he was against it, which makes him Flipper the dolphin.

We're four years further removed from the Olympics in Utah, so fewer people are going to see that as a crowning Romney achievement.

Despite his newfound love of "small varmit" hunting in 2008, Romney's not a gun guy -- not in the Sarah Palin/Ted Nugent sense.

Romney's a member of LDS, which really bothers a certain segment of the GOP base.

Romney has a pro-choice history.

Despite having been Governor in Mass, Romney would be unlikely to deliver the state in the GE.

They are conflicted. On one hand, there is a big segment of conservatives who just want somebody who will beat Obama. On the other hand, there is another segment who, in addition to being very angry about Barack Obama, is also very angry about how little they achieved under Baby Bush. They had the WH, Congress (both houses) and the SCOTUS for 6/8 years, and still ran deficits; still expanded Medicaire; didn't end abortion; didn't roll back a lot more business regulation than they did; and didn't enact a flat tax. Those folks don't want more of the same.

[Warren DeMontague]

29. Romney's got some big problems, but they're running out of options over there.

Barring Sarah Palin or someone else riding in at the last minute, realistically Pawlenty is probably the only other choice.

[Warren DeMontague]

28. No way is it going to be Rudy. He's pro-choice, and that's game over.

I mean, that sort of defeats the purpose of voting Republican for a huge chunk of the party. Look at the shit-fit they just had over at FR over the same point.

[Aerows]

13. Romney is getting thrown to the wolves

He couldn't win if he tried, and he isn't going to even try.

[DCBob]

15. Dont know much today except the GOP is in turmoil.

This can shake out so many different ways.. I cannot imagine anyone being confident of making a pick now.

[OmahaBlueDog]

17. My sense is that Giuliani's showing is really a sign they want another candidate

Nothing else really explains it, since he's shown no serious sign that he's running.

I'm surprised the CNN poll (from which I got the poll choices posted here) didn't include Jeb Bush or Rick Perry.

[DCBob]

18. Yeah, I think Perry is in and Jebb might jump depedning on the circumstances.

Its still a crap shoot at this point.

[Tx4obama]

19. I picked Cain ... only because ...

Many Republicans think people are 'interchangeable' based on their gender and skin color.
They tired to replace Hillary with Palin, and now I think they will try to replace Obama with Cain.

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[Scuba]

21. Alvin Green

[abelenkpe]

24. lol! :) nt

[izquierdista]

25. Some dumb dick

Dick Perry, Dick Santorum, Dick Snyder, Dick Scott.

At least with Nixon, you knew up front you were getting dicked.

[Webster Green]

26. I picked Palin due to the current state of insanity in the GOP.

At this point, they are totally out of control bat-shit fucking crazy. :crazy:

[hyphenate]

27. I think that there are few people out there that

can be taken seriously among GOP contenders. I know that Huntsman is considered a decent candidate, and Romney is as well. I would never, ever vote for Romney because of what he did to the pet dog, which I consider abominable. Yeah, it's a small incident, but anyone who is so cavalier about that sort od thing makes me very angry.

Who will go into the running as the GOP pick?

I think that there is a likelihood that there will be two candidates: one a GOP and another as the TP candidate.

Chris Christie, for example, is a viable TP candidate, but Ronmey might end up the GOP one. Rick Scott is another one who could score points as a TP candidate.

There are many, many people out there nuts enough to vote for the TP candidate, splitting the right-wing total votes. That would be unfortunate enough for them, but very good news for us.

[bemildred]

30. Barney the purple dinosaur.