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SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:00 PM Feb 2012

Who would be the best Republican, no joke.

I often hear Republicans when talking about the four running for their nominee, if their favorite doesn’t win any of them would be better than President Obama. I also hear Democrats state while they may not be pleased with everything President Obama has or has not done, he is still better than any of the Republicans. Some of the Democrats who live in states which have opened primaries say they would vote Republican voting for the candidate which they feel is most easily beat by President Obama. But, too often current events 6-8 weeks before the general election decide or at least help decide who the president will be. Because of this if I were to vote in the Republican primary I must vote for the person I feel would be the best choice if a Republican must become our president.
The problem is two of the candidate I don’t trust and the other two scare the living daylights out of me. I might as well roll a die. I don’t see a good future under any of the potential Republicans
Rick Santorum means what he says and says what he means. Homosexuals will need to move to Canada and non-Christians and to some extent non-Catholics should consider the move also. Non-”Americans” shouldn’t rest too easily either. He will lead by his interpretation of the bible and those who don’t agree with his ultra christian right beliefs might as well give up. The U.S. Constitution will be enforced only for those in agreement with him.
Ron Paul while talking a lot about liberty and freedom would bring our economy to a screeching halt. Yes, his massive cuts may balance the budget, but do so by firing hundreds of thousands of government employees. Those who rely on the departments which he would cut will need to fend for themselves.
Newt Gingrich while intelligent and talks a good talk, I can’t get over his demanding President Clinton leave office for sexual misconduct, that he wasn’t moral enough to be president, while he was having an affair, marries his mistress then joins a church so all is forgiven. I don’t trust one word that comes out of his mouth.
Mitt Romney is a politician's politician. He will need to install a weather vain on the white house to each morning check which way the political wind is blowing to decide what he is for that day. Also, his business experience although may work for a company, if you don’t care who you hurt, but it won’t work for a country. You can’t sell or liquidate non producing states nor fire unproductive citizens. If we though the middle class and poor suffered and the rich prospered under other Republican presidents we haven’t seen anything like we would see under a Romney administration.
So if it must happen who would be the best Republican President?

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Who would be the best Republican, no joke. (Original Post) SoutherDem Feb 2012 OP
none of them. Terra Alta Feb 2012 #1
Paragraphs are your friends Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #2
no shit... looks like copy/pastry. DCBob Feb 2012 #4
Slheb Demonaut Feb 2012 #3
Romney without a doubt of the four The Second Stone Feb 2012 #5
Ron Paul or the Mitt Man mdmc Feb 2012 #6
Teddy Roosevelt? James Garfield? Abe Lincoln? FSogol Feb 2012 #7
Dwight D Eisenhower. Kurmudgeon Feb 2012 #11
Mittens athenasatanjesus Feb 2012 #8
Based on what you said ... Boojatta Feb 2012 #9
I would like to see Mittens get the nod Warpy Feb 2012 #10
Buddy Roemer or John Huntsman Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #12

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
1. none of them.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:04 PM
Feb 2012

If, God forbid, it does happen and one of those four morons win the election -- we are screwed.

 

The Second Stone

(2,900 posts)
5. Romney without a doubt of the four
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:13 PM
Feb 2012

He has at least run a state. The other three are narcissists who wouldn't have the first clue how to get other politicians to cooperate. But I am not voting for Romney. He is just awful. His only convictions seem to be that Mitt Romney is a wonderful guy, and his vulture capitalism refutes that.

 

Kurmudgeon

(1,751 posts)
11. Dwight D Eisenhower.
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 06:14 AM
Feb 2012

Though I do kind of hold the 58 Recession and especially choosing Nixon for VP against him.

athenasatanjesus

(859 posts)
8. Mittens
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:56 PM
Feb 2012

They hate him because he will actually make political compromises,he's a politician and not a right wing ideolog,in other words he may be a phony but he isn't a psychopath.

 

Boojatta

(12,231 posts)
9. Based on what you said ...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:12 PM
Feb 2012

the answer is clearly: Newt Gingrich.

You don't actually trust the other three, do you?

I think that it is wise to minimize the degree of damage that might occur. The alternative is like cutting costs by eliminating seat belts and persuading yourself that everybody is going to be frightened into driving much more carefully. For some reason that makes me think of Ron Paul.

Warpy

(111,358 posts)
10. I would like to see Mittens get the nod
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:17 PM
Feb 2012

simply because the man is not an ideologue. He has no rigid core values except one for self preservation. He will not continue charging forth the way Stupid did because he filters the facts to fit the ideology, not the other way around.

Failing that, I hope they resurrect poor, dull Pawlenty at the convention.

I don't want to see anyone else get the nod. After all, they've cheated total clowns into office before and the mechanisms are all there to do so again.

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