Poly's GOP Presidential Nominating Poll

[Bosh]

Who wins depends massively on who enters since the person with the least crowded niche will probably win. The two biggest questions:
1. Will the establishment coalesce around Romney or some mid-western governor?
2. Will the 27%ers rally around one person or will their vote get split?

[OzzyKP]

Am I the only one who would love to see Romney-Giuliani?

rah?

Surely not I.

Mitch McDaneils is the best option by far.

Ron Paul would be cool just to stir things up.

[Al B. Sure!]

Surely not I.

Mitch McDaneils is the best option by far.

Ron Paul would be cool just to stir things up.

Ron Paul is a creationist and a loony.

Mitch Daniels said this:

Daniels: I'm not sure it's all that new. People who reject the idea of a God -who think that we're just accidental protoplasm- have always been with us. What bothers me is the implications -which not all such folks have thought through- because really, if we are just accidental, if this life is all there is, if there is no eternal standard of right and wrong, then all that matters is power.

And atheism leads to brutality. All the horrific crimes of the last century were committed by atheists -Stalin and Hitler and Mao and so forth- because it flows very naturally from an idea that there is no judgment and there is nothing other than the brief time we spend on this Earth.

Everyone's certainly entitled in our country to equal treatment regardless of their opinion. But yes, I think that folks who believe they've come to that opinion ought to think very carefully, first of all, about how different it is from the American tradition; how it leads to a very different set of outcomes in the real world.

[Heraclitus]

Donald Trump
Ron Paul

[Docfeelgood]

does it REALLY matter?

[Whoha]

Trump

[Thoth]

I'm hoping for Palin as I think it's time Americans got truly serious about the political insanity rather than half-assing it.

That plus the fact that Palin has a really nice set of tits.

bewbs.

[Uncle Sparky]

How about 'someone-who-just-quit-Fox'? He promised to do 'something even more important'.

[Lonestar]

I would vote for Dr. Doom.

[SpencerH]

How about 'someone-who-just-quit-Fox'? He promised to do 'something even more important'.

Krauthammer has quit Fox? OMG the sky is falling! The sky is falling! Oh wait! You mean he's running for POTUS? Yeah! He's disabled and Jewish so all the liberals will have to vote for him. He's a shoe-in. Finally we'll be like the other countries with a doctor as president (even if it's only an MD instead of a PhD).

Krauhammer in 2012!

[OzzyKP]

Ron Paul is a creationist and a loony.

I'm a bit skeptical if he is a creationist. But even if so, what does it matter? It isn't going to affect policy or his decisions, so why not let him have his beliefs?

Mitch Daniels said this:

Daniels: I'm not sure it's all that new. People who reject the idea of a God -who think that we're just accidental protoplasm- have always been with us. What bothers me is the implications -which not all such folks have thought through- because really, if we are just accidental, if this life is all there is, if there is no eternal standard of right and wrong, then all that matters is power.

And atheism leads to brutality. All the horrific crimes of the last century were committed by atheists -Stalin and Hitler and Mao and so forth- because it flows very naturally from an idea that there is no judgment and there is nothing other than the brief time we spend on this Earth.

Everyone's certainly entitled in our country to equal treatment regardless of their opinion. But yes, I think that folks who believe they've come to that opinion ought to think very carefully, first of all, about how different it is from the American tradition; how it leads to a very different set of outcomes in the real world.

I like him even more now.

Also, for a less loony version of Ron Paul, there is Gov. Gary Johnson who just threw his hat into the ring yesterday.

[Arrian]

There are things I disagree w/Paul about, but the things I agree with him on are pretty big. I'll look up Johnson's positions. Look, if one of those guys actually won (hah) and did 1 thing: ended the drug war, that would be a huge win. The creationism would be irritating but likely no more than that.

Mitch Daniels can go **** himself. His argument about atheism is bunk.

-Arrian

[Al B. Sure!]

Ron Paul is a creationist:



"I think it's a theory... and I don't accept it"



So you really like that quote from Mitch Daniels, Ozzy? Really? What do you like about it? That "all that matters is power" to atheists? That atheism leads to brutality? Dude clearly never heard of the crusades, the inquisition, or modern-day terrorism.

I can't have a president that doesn't know about the post-Sept. 11th world.

[OzzyKP]

Ok. Well I stand by the fact that it doesn't really matter. With Paul's hand's off approach he isn't going to try to legislate that like some others would.


Though of course he isn't getting elected anyhow, so it matters even less.

[Al B. Sure!]

Funny how the Republicans on here who talk about wanting to take the party back from the Tea Partyists and religious nuts have no support for what looks to me to be the only two candidates who are not creationist looneys... Giuliani and Romney.

Making me wonder if John McCain had any support here a few years back...