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Is there a single one of the current line-up that's worth a schit?

Gingrich sucks.
RP is batschit crazy.
Romney is Hussein-lite.
Johnson just screams RINO.
Huckster is out.
Trump is a sideshow...at best.
Daniels is nothing inspiring at all.

Cain might be "it", thus far....

Can we please draft West and Haley?

Left out Bachmann, Palin.

But yeah, I hear ya. Course, I've been in that place for 6 months already, glad you've arrived - it's been lonely.


End result.. anybody is better than Obama. But if we can win the Senate in a big way and not get rid of Obama, 2012 will still be a huge win.

Inspiring is overrated.

Daniels is an accountant at heart, and he knows how to turn a deficit around.

If we're all just willing to STFU up for four years over gay marriage, women in the military and abortion (hey, he just cut off state funds to Planned Parenthood of Indiana, so give him some credit!), we'll have a guy who can actually bring our slide into socialism to a screeching halt.

Or, we could just vote for a guy with great hair and teeth who's willing to tell us what we want to hear. In which case, same s**t, different party.

- Tom

I really like Herman Cane but I'm just not seeing it. West is too volatile and the MSM will take his issue over in Iraq and turn it into another Goldwater fiasco and he's only known to a few, but I suppose that can change. Daniels seems to be the guy to be the best from a "whole man" concept, but I don't know enough about him yet. Regardless ANY of the names here would be a qunatum leap over the marxist but I am not hopeful

Not a single one of those would make a dent...even with a True Conservative we will also have to take all congress with Super majorities to even have a chance at making a dent

I hate to say it, but Cain has a bit of a problem not coming across as kooky, like Ron Paul. Not saying he IS kooky, just what it will appear to way too many folks & that is a major problem nationally.

Hoping for a surge by a someone like a West, Bauchmann, Rubio, Ryan or similar. It is going to be a bitter fight, tooth and nail against the RINO parade, but it's one we have GOT to win, or just stick a fork in the whole fuggin' mess & wait for the switch to flip to a misery like we have never known..

Ryan would suck as much as the rest, easily.

Bachmann.... sorry, I ain't feeling the love for a former IRS prosecutor. No thanks...

Daniels is RINO, defined.

Haley is also an accountant, and an actual conservative (or damned close to one). Daniels, ain't.

If we are ever gonna turn this country around we need a BUNCH of new CONSERVATIVE blood in government. The same old also ran's ain't gonna cut it.

I've still got my fingers crossed for West and the hope that Beck yanks his chain hard enough that he just can't turn it down.

If he doesn't toss the sombrero in soon, I'm going to be doing a lot more reloading.

None of the beltway crowd will do us any good.
Gonna have to be someone new. Daniels-- maybe

If anyone is looking for the 'perfect' candidate, they'll be looking forever. No one is going to please everyone's criteria. You look for the person who satisfies the bulk of your beliefs, and support them.
Is Bachmann's IRS history any more damaging than Cain's tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City?

Of all the possibles so far, Bachmann is the strongest IMHO. She has raised more campaign funds than anyone in congressional history, is dedicated to the Tea Party and its philosophy, and is tenacious in a debate. She's raised 5 of her own, plus 23 foster children, and doesn't have the baggage Palin has. She's the only one that scares Pelosi enough that she rode her broom to Minnesota to campaign against her.

It's still too early to has any of this out, but I'm guessing she will be one of the front-runners come Aug-Sep. She was born in Iowa, and they love her there. If Palin doesn't run, I'll bet she stands with Bachmann, as the two have become quite good friends.

Wished I could youtube Dennis Miller's comments from last night's O' Rile me.

I think Daniels will be the dark horse and his running mate would be crucial.

What baggage does Palin have?

That isn�t just ginned up crap from the LSM.

What real baggage; as in what others have done to foul their own nest?

What divorces, infidelities, corruption, dishonesty, ect. have you found in the Palin record?

How many earmarks for the Minnesota home folks and how much farm subsidies collected for the Bachmann family farm in the Bachmann record?

As of 5-19-11
2012 Iowa Caucus Straw Poll � Ends 6-15-11
Who will win the 2012 Republican Iowa Caucuses?
Sarah Palin (46%, 771 Votes)
Ron Paul (39%, 647 Votes)
Hermain Cain (7%, 118 Votes)
Michele Bachmann (2%, 37 Votes)
Newt Gingrich (2%, 29 Votes)
Gary Johnson (1%, 23 Votes)
Mitt Romney (1%, 22 Votes)
Tim Pawlenty (1%, 20 Votes)
Rick Santorum (1%, 8 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,675

1. Quitter
2. Bridge to Nowhere

I suspect Daniels will be all lined up with one, or close to it, if he declares.

As for him being a RINO, I don't see it.

When you start with the proposition that anyone who actually WANTS the job of POTUS has to be mentally ill at some level as a starting point ...

You have to accept that he's going to be someone you prolly wouldn't want to invite home for supper.

I never said I didn't like Palin. I actually like her quite a bit. I don't think that any of the things the media says about her are fair or completely accurate.

The big problem with Sarah is the damage already done by the media. There is 10% of the voting populous that will decide 2012. I don't think there is any chance of winning them over to be Palin lovers now or in the coming 17 months.
She would be best doing exactly what she is doing right now.

As I stated before, finding a person with no baggage and viewpoints that are 100% aligned is an impossibility. IMHO, people are looking for too much, too soon. That straw poll doesn't mean jackshiit right now, or even in the next month. How many on that list have even announced, or ever will?
I hate polls. They are a totally inaccurate waste of time.

Preach on brother, preach on...

Yup.

Just because she doesn't have the baggage everyone else has doesn't mean she doesn't have her own. The other candidates suck, so why would you hold them up as the standards against which the candidate you support should be compared unless you think she sucks too, and I'm assuming you don't??

The Republican nominee will be Romney. Notice I didn't say "should be" I said "will be".

You can take it to the bank.