Has there ever been worse Republican candiate than Mitt Romney??

[Hawaii Hiker]

That guy makes my skin crawl...I absolutely cannot stand that guy, refuse to even watch him on TV...He's such a smug, arrogant, pompous, condasending, mean-spirited SOB....Please, please let this bastard not get the Republican nomination!...:banghead:

I honestly don't think I could live in the US anymore if Romney became president....

Syndey (AU) anyone?......

[gaiilonfong]

1. Yes Huckabee

As a gay man he is worse to me!

[TwilightGardener]

2. Yes--Steve Forbes, Gary Bauer, Pat Robertson, Alan Keyes, and Mike Huckabee.

See, don't you feel better?

[Hawaii Hiker]

10. Yes, but most of those people esp. Robertson, Keyes,

probably couldn't get 50 electoral votes....

I'll answer my original question...Sam Brownback was worse than Romney, but Brownback had ZERO chance of ever winning...

Romney stands at least a reasonable (cetainly better than those aforementioned candiates) shot of winning, thus making him so dangerous.....

[TwilightGardener]

14. He's got a shot, especially if he wins Iowa and gets a big enough

bounce going in to NH to overtake McCain. BUT--even if he wins the nom, I can't see him winning the general. I honestly can't imagine any of the R's winning. I have tried to envision it, and it just seems so far-fetched. Of course, I said that in 2000 and 2004, but I feel it in my bones this time.

[Zynx]

18. Believe it or not, I think Romney would be much more of a corporatist

fascist than Brownback.

[Zynx]

17. Romney is a lot worse than Forbes.

Forbes at least had some respect for personal liberty.

[Wickerman]

3. GWB kinda sucked

:shrug:

[Beaverhausen]

4. He's bad, but I think they all suck - I happen to think the worst is Ghouliani

I visited Sydney in November and would love to live there!

edit- I can't type!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. The GOP's had no shortage of "Romney"s over the years.

[Sparkly]

6. George W. Bush.

But they're all awful.

[Vickers]

7. Ronald Reagan. George W. Bush. Richard Nixon.

That's just off the top of my head.

[Vanje]

8. He's awful

But Mitt has a lot of competition for WORST candidate.
There'd be a three-way tie.

[THUNDER HANDS]

9. actually, I think he's the most sane of all the GOP nominees

which says something in and of itself.

[Zynx]

12. Sane? The guy is a pathological liar and a sociopath.

[TwilightGardener]

16. To me, that's Huck--Huckleberry has GWB's narcissism and incurious nature.

Romney is an ass, but a sane ass.

[Zynx]

22. Sociopaths are not sane.

Romney is much more than just an ass. Ever seen the shit he has said?

[TwilightGardener]

24. Romney talks smack to look like a rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth far right wing nut--

if HE believed anything that came out of his mouth, maybe we would too. But he doesn't, so we don't. It's all posturing to get the nomination. Posturing doesn't scare me--I expect it from Repubs. Huckabee, however, truly has a personality disorder. He will say or do anything to get media attention--in fact, I think he's more interested in being on TV and having people laugh at his jokes and take pictures of him playing guitar and hunting than in actually being President. Mittens makes me roll my eyes and sigh, but at least he takes things seriously, as a CEO-type tends to do. Huckabee makes my skin crawl--he's totally unserious and makes up his half-baked positions as he goes along, and I have no idea why he thinks he can or should be President--but he's loving the whole circus aspect a little too much, and that should set off alarms as to his motives and his personality.

[Zynx]

25. Romney takes pride in never pardoning anyone, trying to bring back the

death penalty, and has consistently supported Bush's authoritarian measures. He is consistent on the most disturbing issues.

[TwilightGardener]

28. OK, yes. Not a swell guy. But did he PERSONALLY interfere in the

parole process to set a future-murderer free because the guy raped Clinton's cousin? And if I had to choose between Romney's zero pardons and Huckleberry's 1000-plus, including 12 murderers...sorry, gonna have to choose Romney, just on the public-safety merits. They're both icky, but there are varying degrees of ickiness--your ick factor and mine are obviously not calibrated the same way.

[Zynx]

29. Romney's trait is far more disturbing.

He is completely unwilling to even entertain the idea that injustice exists in the criminal justice system. Is Huckabee a little pardon-happy? Yes, but it demonstrates at least some measure of compassion even if it is misguided by the idea "THEY FOUND GOD! THEY MUST BE GOOD NOW!".

[TwilightGardener]

32. Well, we could go round and round, but my opinion stands:

Romney: sane asshole. Huckabee: INSANE asshole.

[Zynx]

38. Romney: Corporatist Insane Asshole. Huckabee: Baptist insane asshole.

[TwilightGardener]

40. Sold!

[DesertFlower]

11. George W. Bush nt

[Zynx]

13. I can't fucking stand him. He's worse than Bush.

More dishonest, more phoney, and more fascist, but he gives the vague appearance of being rational.

[ecstatic]

15. Huckabee is more dangerous though because he has a charming

demeanor. I said this from the start back when his support was in the single digits. Look at what Huckabee stands for. We absolutely cannot afford to have this man win!

[Zynx]

19. Romney is just as bad on the religious crap and worse on personal

rights and corporate fascism. Most of Huckabee's stuff is annoying, but harmless by comparison.

[loveangelc]

20. Do you really think anyone will be rushing ethusiastically to support Romney in Nov?

nope. He won't win.

[LordJFT]

21. Tancredo and Huckabee

but Romney's definitely the phoniest

[Zynx]

23. I keep maintaining, this guy is more than just phoney.

He is a complete flaming fascist. If you think Bush has been corporatist, you ain't seen nothing yet.

[LordJFT]

42. i don't think he's anything but what wins him elections

[TeamJordan23]

26. Fred Thompson. nm

[The Ghost]

27. Yup

He was my governor, and couldn't agree with you more. He's even worse than you've said. In 2006, his last year as Gov, he was in the state, actually doing work as governor, for i think just over 1/3 of the year, cause he spent the rest of his time, in Iowa, bashing Mass. to try and make him look more attractive in the conservative circles. He's despicable fraud of a human being, not just candidate.

[Clintonista2]

30. Earlier today someone on DU said that if it's between mitt & Hillary in a GE, he would vote for mitt

[TwilightGardener]

33. That I don't believe.

[Clintonista2]

35. here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3917279&mesg_id=3920360

[TwilightGardener]

36. Oh. Oh dear.

[Zynx]

39. Wow. That is nothing short of stunning.

And that is also a bannable offense to say you would vote for a Republican before a Democrat.

[Hawaii Hiker]

37. I assume & hope that that was just an April fool's joke:

3 months early....

How, how, how, can anyone other than a far-righty vote for Knit-wit Mitt over HRC :banghead:

[City Lights]

31. Ummm, I'd have to go with the george wanker bush. eom

[Sulawesi]

34. Dole?

I actually don't mind Bob Dole (as a person), but he was not a good candidate.

[K Gardner]

41. Oh, yes there have been worse, but no way in hell would this guy

EVER get elected. However, if Diebold is a factor, I'll gladly join you in Sydney, or my door will be open to everyone in beautiful Italy.. where health care is free, food is home-grown and delicious and protesting in the streets is a way of life :-)

[ToeBot]

43. Well, he's the worst since G W Bush, and if anyone could be a worse president, it's him! nt

[smalll]

44. He looks like Superman; this will help him. It's the Mormonism that screws his chances the most. /

[Honeycombe8]

45. Huckleberry is the most ignorant, but the nicest. Romney, I agree, is most pompous...

but that makes him PERFECT as the GOP nominee! Yikes!

What's more...he's such a Ken doll cardboard caricature of a man, that I think it'd be tough to beat him!