Vote for your favorite Republican

[blutzski]

I know this will be difficult for the 95% liberal population on the Buzz, but if you've watched the debates, who are your favorite (or more accurately, least objectionable) candidates? Here's my scorecard from best to worst:

People who should be president
1) Ron Paul (best ideas, worst delivery for explaining complex ideas to Americans who can only comprehend bumper sticker slogan)
2) Newt Gingrich (don't agree with him on everything but he's the statesman we need to get Washington working again)

People I would actually vote for if it came down to them vs Obama
3) Gary Johnson (don't know much about him after one debate but he's a libertarian, what more do I need to know?)
4) Herman Cain (would have been a better choice for those racists who voted for Obama just so they could be proud to put a black man in the whitehouse).
5) Jon Huntsman (Not sure about this guy but better than the ones below)

Why the F#*& are these the frontrunners?
6) Michele Bachman (why are republican women such hawks on global military intervention)
7) Mitt Romney (can't believe a thing that comes out of his pearlbright smile)
8.) Rick Perry (bush with a better hairdo, proof that the tea-party has abandoned Ron Paul's ideals)

I'm leaving the country if this douche is president
9) Rick Santorum

[CoBoater]

They're all a bunch of "morans." being dumb has become a virtue for the banana republicans and this is what we get. romneys the closest thing to a "statesman" on the repub campaign shortbus but he has to hide that he got his daddy got him educated past 8th grade so tea party folks dont tar and feather him too bad. bachmans just batshit crazy and has to be a hawk cause she dont have a penis.

i love how perrys gonna to use a crystal ball to figure out what countrys we need to prop up and arm so they can rescue us when their neighbors go rogue and get the bomb.

where can i go float for 4 years if one of these idiots gets elected? obama looks better every time this clownshow gets on tv.

[gh]

Gary Johnson I guess if I had to choose but I like some of Ron Pauls ideas but the whole package is a bit on the fringe. There isnt one yet that I would for instead of Obama because it appears to me that Rick Perry will win the nomination and I think we have had enough bloated, self-important Texans in the WH for a while.

[rwhyman]

Not that I would vote for him, but judging from what I saw of Mitch Daniels on the Dailey Show the other night, he seemed like a Repub that was at least reasonable and seems to want to play down the middle. Hard to judge a person from one interview and I don't know anything else about the guy. Enlighten me.
The other problem is, he won't run for the job.

[dgosn]

I'd have to go Ron Paul. He's a genuine kook, but if he can dismantle the revolving door of Wall Street and the White House, AND pull our troops out of Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Iraq, then he's got my vote. To me social issues won't matter much in a few years when we are all living in squalor because Wall Street has destroyed our country to benefit the top 1/2%. Until we get rid of the lobbyists and special interests in our government we'll never have a representative democracy.

Of course the media (predominantly puppets) will never give Paul or Kucinich any credit because their ideal seem to go against the raping of our treasury at the hands of both parties.

[Riparian]

Originally Posted by dgosn

I'd have to go Ron Paul. He's a genuine kook, but if he can dismantle the revolving door of Wall Street and the White House, AND pull our troops out of Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and Iraq, then he's got my vote. To me social issues won't matter much in a few years when we are all living in squalor because Wall Street has destroyed our country to benefit the top 1/2%. Until we get rid of the lobbyists and special interests in our government we'll never have a representative democracy.

Of course the media (predominantly puppets) will never give Paul or Kucinich any credit because their ideal seem to go against the raping of our treasury at the hands of both parties.

Seriously, dude, you need to STOP typing shit that makes me agree with you... even if just partially. So, you know, STOP. OK?

Blutzki: The Newster? Really? That sheepfuk isn't worth the oxygen he consumes.

[El Flaco]

I'd go with Bruno's order, other than:

• Newt Gingrich gets moved to slightly above Bachmann because he's the most hypocritical & morally bankrupt of any candidate of either party; although he's had some moderate positions in the past. His intellect is overhyped.
• Hermann Cain to the bottom tier because he's black (KIDDING > it's because anyone who lectures America about not understanding the Constitution while referencing the Declaration of Independence should be immediately disqualified from the presidency, period.)
• I'd actually move Romney to somewhere just below Ron Paul; because he's a closet moderate (hence why Bruno & nobody else trusts him), and because he actually pulled together a masterful job of managing the SLC Olympics. I worked there during the Games, and running that operation wasn't easy after the early scandals, and the the fact that it was just a few months after 9/11. He deserves credit for that. Plus having a mormon president would drive evangelicals crazy. BTW Romney is to conservatives as Obama is to progressives - talks a big game to the base but governs far over towards the other side.
• Bachmann belongs in the ex-pat category. While Santorum is truly a douche, she's the candidate that deserves the nut house, not the White House. Seriously - after her vaccination-caused-retardation-in-a-twelve-year-old claim, she's officially in orbit. Anyone who would pick her, even over Obama, hates America. FACT.

Chris Christie would be near the top of the list, if he were running. Daniels would be acceptable too; but the political climate does not suit the moderates in the race. That's why I think Perry beats Romney in the primaries. Fear of the economy / blame towards Obama is going to drive those primary voters to go to the whoever speaks to the most extreme positions, IMO.

It's the douchebags voters that boo the gay soldier or scream "let him die" at the uninsured that are driving the conversation. None of the candidates called those people out in those debates, which is sad.

[Outlaw]

John Huntsman: Remarkably he seems to have a good head on his shoulders for a Republican. I don't agree with many of his views on taxes, but he seems to have some good ideas to improve our economic standing, i.e. he endorses the T. Boone Pickens Plan to transition our fleet vehicles such as semi trucks and garbage trucks to domestically produced, natural gas. Although Obama has endorsed this as well, so I will be voting for Obama, unless he really screws up.

[gh]

I saw a rumor that gov chris christie might run. He has ran NJ like a business for several years with very little BS. Now there is a republican that I would give serious consideration to.

[scooby450]

Uhm, Reagan?