Who will the GOP run as a presidential nominee in 2008?

[Erika]

Romney who will use the Mormon Church and it's infrastructure as a launching pad? Or Newt or Rudy with their "colorful" marital backgrounds? Frist, the cat killer, or Macaca Allen? My bets are on the religious right running Romney and utilizing the Mormon system.

[countmyvote4real]

1. Don't rule out John "kneepads" McCain. n/t

[Phredicles]

4. If he doesn't get the nomination then he and Colin Powell should

start a "sold our souls for NOTHING" club.

They could invite Hillary to apply if she doesn't nominated either...

[DFW]

12. I wouldn't count Chuck Hagel out

Not unless we lose both houses of Congress on Nov. 7. Then their
radicals would have green lights all the way to the nomination.

[DesertRat]

2. McCain

But he won't win.

[windbreeze]

3. My take....

we have already been warned...that * thinks his brother should be the next president...that pretty well tells me it's gonna be Jeb...unless, of course, something serious happens to *'s remaining years...or...unless he takes matters into his own hands regarding the dictatorship he wants...
wb

[jannyk]

5. McCain n/t

[FrenchieCat]

6. I'm with you....

It will be Romney. They'll try to sell the idea that he's even purer than fundamentalists.

Don't know if it will work, but he's got the "look" that many airheads will vote for based on that! :shrug:

[Chipper Chat]

7. It's gonna be:

[Joe Bacon]

8. It's Jeb, that is, if an election is held.

I really fear Bush doing the State of Emergency thing if Diebold doesn't come thru for him!

[doubleplusgood]

9. whoever is NOT indicted/convicted/imprisoned

in the GOP it will be a narrow field

[BruceMcF]

10. Actually, that makes sense ...

... it has very rarely been the case that the Greed Over People does not know who the candidate is going to be, or at the very worst have it narrowed down to two, a front runner and a challenger. And that is since WWII.

That is most likely to play out if the Democrats win control of the House, gain subpoena power, and start digging skeletons out of closets. Then Republican aspirants will start toppling like bowling pins, and the last one or two left standing will run the kind of nomination race that the Republicans are comfortable with.

I'm not sure what they do if the hypothetical House Democratic majority throws a strike, though. Maybe run George Bush 41 again.

[Tarc]

11. None of the Above

We're still a long ways away from 2008, there's more than enough time for a new far-right conservative to step forward, probably a governor or ex-governor. Haley Barbour, John Engler, etc...

[Dinger]

13. How About KKKarl?

He's such a "genius" after all, right?

[Catchawave]

14. Huckabee?

...but he made that "concentration camp" joke about his weight loss on Imus, sooooo he's definitely qualified :silly:

[Le Taz Hot]

15. McCain

they promised it to him after dimson.

[bigdarryl]

16. Doesn't matter who they run there TOASTED for 08 they ...

could resurrect Ronald Reagan and that will not help them.

[rep the dems]

17. I'll go with Romney, because he's probably the biggest douchebag

of them all. All he does is wait for the usual right wing idiots to think of some stupid idea, and then latches onto it as if it were his own. What a scumbag.

[saltpoint]

18. Chuck Hagel.

He's the Republican who is most unlike a Bush Republican.

Way too conservative for me, and some of the individual votes he's cast are stand-out offensive, but he's a close neighbor to the Iowa caucus, a pro-military Midwesterner, and solid support among his constituents.

He could upset the field in Iowa, as Romney, McCain, and Giuliani split the vote, and then go on to win in New Hampshire. New Hampshire is almost tailor-made for Hagel.