Any ideas on next republican for president?

[IRoNiK]

I am wondering, has anyone heard about who the next big republicans will be that run for presidential office? i go to school so i dont get to see the news a lot. another 6 months or so and we should be seeing some pretty heavy campaigning! I honestly dont have a clue who will be the next republican to run for president.

[Deacon]

Honestly I don't know either, probably a Republican governor, keep you eyes open

[bigboy]

Well hopefully another movie star doesn't jump on the bandwagon and try this time for the big office. I really have no idea either I think it will be a suprise to many.

[IRoNiK]

haha, it might be funny to have Arnold as a president! but i dont think it would work so well. i am not familiar with the guidelines to become president, but i would doubt if he meets the criteria. I think the main thing is being a natural born american citizen. correct me if i am wrong

[Deacon]

Arnold cannot run for president anyway... I've heard that John McCain might run for president in the republican parties favor so far.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

McCain would be savaged in the primaries.Â*Â*The conservative base absolutely loathes him.Â*Â*Any politically savvy conservative, note I'm saying conservative not Republican the two are not synonymous, knows McCain-Feingold is the biggest piece of legislative schmeer passed in the last decade.Â*Â*Limiting money for commercials is suppression of free speech, free political speech, the most undebatable form of pure first ammendment intent.

Yes, the USSC upheld it.Â*Â*However this is the same Supreme Court that said it's legal for government to take private property from one citizen and give it to another if it means more tax revenue for a governing entity with power of eminent domain.

Senators don't win Presidential elections.Â*Â*Hasn't happened for 46 years.Â*Â*Presidents in the post-WW II political scene are coming from the governor's ranks.

That being said the Republican I'd like to support is George Allen.Â*Â*Yes, he's a senator but he's also a former governor of Virginia, member of the U.S. HoR andÂ*Â*the Virginia House of Delegates.Â*Â*He talks the talk of a conservative and holds many views of Ronald Reagan.

Can he walk the walk?Â*Â*Who knows.

I know that when we sent GWB up the ladder that he was no conservative.Â*Â*I just didn't think he'd be the spending whore he's turned out to be.Â*Â*The next nominee certainly can't run as a "Compassionate Conservative".Â*Â*The phrase means nothing more than "we'll do what the Democrats want but just spend less doing it".Â*Â*Look at where it's gotten us.

[E-Z-B]

PAD's right. No senator will ever become president. Why? Because they have an extensive voting record. How does that hurt a presidential candidate? Because the media plays along with the opposing party's talking points that the senator is a flip-flopper. For example, a senator may have voted to go to war, but then voted against it. Why would he do this? Because his ammendment to pay for the war by rolling back some of GWB's tax cuts was defeated. Sound familar? I hope so. McCain may get the GOP nomination, but he won't win the presidency.

Rudy Guilliani would likely have been a logical choice, but he faced a scandal with his personal life, so that may no longer be realistic.

[tim]

I think you got a good point, about the voting record missing them up. It's to easy, to make them look bad no matter what way they voted.

[RedKnight]

I hope that Congressman Ron Paul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul is nominated, but it isn't likely to happen.

[CheesyMuslim]

Sorry bout that,

1. But I have already made the call out, and I know who will be next President of the United States of America.
2. When you are me, you can do that.
3. And yes it will be a Governor.
4. From a Southern State.

Regards,
SirJamesofTexas

[AnAmericanXX]

History has shown us, at least in recent decades, that primarily Governors and not Senators or Congressman are the nations choice. Out of the field of potentials, and while he isn't my favorite choice, Mitt Romney is probably the most electable Republican out there. McCain tries to be centrist but he really upset the right too much, particularly when he votes against core issues like the tax cuts.

[wonder cow]

I have been trying to tell Reps for some time that Hillary Clinton would be an ideal candidate for the GOP. She's centrist on most social issues, with the possible exception of universal health care, and is right on matters of business, industry, and trade.

check out some of these traditional "conservative" creds from her youth.

Hillary Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was raised in a Methodist family in Park Ridge, Illinois. Her father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, a conservative, was an executive in the textile industry, and her mother, Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, was a homemaker. She has two brothers, Hugh and Tony.

As a child, Hillary was involved in activities at church and at a public school in Park Ridge. Rodham was fond of sports, including tennis, ice skating, ballet, swimming, volleyball, and softball. She earned many awards as a Brownie and Girl Scout [5]. Prior to graduating from Maine South High School, she attended Maine East High School, where she served as class president, a member of the student council, a member of the debating team, and as a member of the National Honor Society. During her final year of high school (Maine South High School), she received the school's first social science award. Hillary Rodham in 1964 (at the age of 16) campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.[6] [7] Her parents encouraged her to pursue the career of her choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton

[Churchel]

Next republican president?

not born yet :D

[wonder cow]

not born yet

we can only hope.;)