Which Republican Would You Like To See Win Iowa (for whatever reason)

[THUNDER HANDS]

Poll question: Which Republican Would You Like To See Win Iowa (for whatever reason)

Either because you think they'd be the easiest to beat. Or you think they'd run a good, honest (for a Republican) campaign. Or you'd just think they'd make for an entertaining candidate.

[BlueManDude]

1. Romney - I'd like to see him gaining some momentum for NH. Huckabee is not viable.

[LordJFT]

32. QFT

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Romney

If Romney can eke out a win in IA he might be able to stop McCain... McCain is the hardest Republican to beat... Romney is the easiest Republican with a shot at the nomination to beat...If Romney wins IA and NH he might have the momentum to seize the nomination...

[panader0]

4. Agreed

[lvx35]

5. I have heard that opinion before. Why is McCain so hard to beat?

I heard he had a moderate appeal, but since the "surge" I also heard that had decreased somewhat.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Because Iraq Is Quiet Now

Unless it blows up I don't think it will be an issue no matter how much we want it to be...

The media likes McCain because he's accessible and unpretentious...

[TwilightGardener]

17. The war will be an issue--maybe not the biggest, but, the expiration date

has passed on Iraq. Might not seem so now, but it will be, I would put money on it. And it will hurt him. People want the war to end.

[lvx35]

20. We've maneuvered ourselves into a bad position.

Where our political fortunes are tied in some ways to failure in Iraq. I wish they had taken a strong moral stance from the start, that this war was wrong, whether we win or lose. I don't support him, but I think a certain Libertarian-Republican candidate has the right idea in questioning our larger foreign policy assumptions that lie behind this war...They give him validity even when we are winning, and prevent the appearance of a massive conflict of interest type situation. I hope some of our guys are taking notes.

[TwilightGardener]

25. I think our Dem leadership focused on the "surge" more than the entire

justification for the war--I agree with you there. I will never buy into the framing that there's "winning" and "losing" in Iraq, however. We're just sitting there. Until we decide not to sit there.

[lvx35]

29. Good point.

I think that's a really good way to put it. The question is whether or not we should be continuing to sit in Iraq....

[vi5]

3. Huckabee......

Because the establishment media and the establishment republicans hate him. And because they know he'll get trounced.

I'd be o.k. with Huckabee losing if I thought it would mean the media would call republicans on their bullshit about values and christianity and all the other horseshit they've been peddling by pointing out that they didn't elect a guy who embodied all of that, after spending how many years telling us all how important those things are.

Of course the media will never do that so....

[lvx35]

7. That's a good point. The freepers hate Ron Paul and Huckabee.

Because they represent the republican base (Christian right and libertarians) rather than the Republican establishment.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. You Need To Play This Out

If The Huckster beats Romney in IA Romney's done...Then McCain kicks The Huckster's ass in New Hampshire, Michigan, and Florida and sets himself up nicely for Super Tuesday... McCain doesn't need to win South Carolina and that's why I'm mentioning it now...

[vi5]

26. I guess you're right.....

The problem is that regardless of what I want and what I predict or whatever, I'm pretty confident that McCain is going to be the nominee. He's the most electable, while at the same time still being o.k. to "the base" in that even though he's said bad things about the evangelicals the fact is that his voting record is right there with them on all their key issues and always has been.

[Honeycombe8]

28. Ditto. Would be fun watching all the hate going amongst the Repubs, if Huckabee were to win nom. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

35. Who Did The Viet Nam War Help In 1972?

Nixon suggested we could "have peace with honor" and portrayed MsGovern as wanting to cut and run...Americans will not lose a war easily...

[Frustratedlady]

6. Romney - He will be the easiest to beat, as he doesn't have the facts.

He fakes his way through a lot of the questions and Biden would destroy him during a debate. (Biden will be the one able to handle whatever the Repugs have to throw at him. :bounce:

Go, Joe!

[emilyg]

9. Lazy Fred.

[Flabbergasted]

10. Ron Paul would ensure the win for Dems.

[gateley]

11. Thompson. I think he'd be the easiest for our nom to slaughter. It would

almost be unfair. :evilgrin:

[patrice]

12. McCain, because then we get to talk about liabilities of sheer cussedness,

which is what got us into Iraq in the first place.

[TwilightGardener]

16. I agree that McCain is not as strong a general contender that some people

on DU believe--he didn't just support the war, he's embraced it like a long-lost love, and people just aren't buying his justifications for it--fighting them over there, gotta have victory, central front of the war on terra. The majority of people in this country simply don't believe any of this BS any more, and I'm not sure some Repubs do either. That, and he's really, really old and feeble. He will not be elected.

[patrice]

19. The thing that got him through being a prisoner of war also has its dark side.

Scratch his surface and we might find a lack of emotional and intellectual flexibility that would be easy enough to illustrate in debate if the format was more open ended than what we usually get.

All personality traits have their positive and negative sides. The man who is John McCain is a good man to be with you in a POW camp, and the pResidency may be somewhat of a POW camp, but what we need is the kind of person who can escape those confines.

[TwilightGardener]

24. When people here were saying last spring that McCain would eventually

drop out of the race well before Iowa, I said no. 5 years as a POW means that you are one stubborn, determined mo-fo (also his dark side, as you put it). McCain's ambition for power scares me, frankly. I liked him in 2000, before we all knew the extreme, soul-selling lengths he would go to for political advantage and power--but now, he's just irrational and crazy to me. I don't know why people think he's more reasonable or more honest than the other R candidates--he has no convictions or integrity either. I don't want him near the big red launch button.

[Mojambo]

14. Romney. Definitely. n/t

[ingac70]

15. Huckabee!!

He's got the corporate whore wing of the Republican party shitting their pants...

http://rightwingnuthouse.com/

Quote from the slimy rethug this blog belongs too...

"Jesus effing Christ! What a pompous, gut churning lump of hypocritical milquetoast. A pox on the party if they nominate this slug. And a pox on those of you who think this guy is qualified to be anything other than an itinerant preacher who doubles as a snake oil salesman."

[gmudem]

18. Romney

Hopefully it will give him some momentum from NH and prevent McCain from winning as McCain is clearly the Republican with the best chance in the general. Huckabee has no chance in NH.

If Romney is the GOP nom and Clinton is our nom at least we'll both have milquetoast nominees with no principles or conviction.

[sallyseven]

30. I think your rude. How dare you equate

Hillary with Romney, who is foppy bs artist.

[gmudem]

34. Maybe it is rude.

But it's true. Hillary appears to have no true convictions and says one thing while doing another. That's the main reason I can't vote for her in the primary, because she is the epitome of a calculated politician who will do or say anything that she thinks will increase her popularity. She does not do it as blatantly as Romney but they are both in the same vain. If Clinton is our candidate then we should all hope Romney is the GOP nom for that reason.

[patrice]

21. NOT Huckabee! The Republicans are going to take a whipping. They NEED

someone to solidify their base, and MORE importantly, to preserve it for the Future = HUCKABEE.

Do Not Underestimate Huckabee. Even If He Looses, Republicans BENEFIT greatly, especially if it's against HC.

[sampsonblk]

22. Huckabee

Because I like to be right.

I think he's the perfect candidate for the GOP electorate, and the other candidates are far far from what GOPers go for. Gov. No Name is, in my opinion, the one to beat.

[hayu_lol]

23. He isn't in your poll list...

Keyes would be my choice...then he and shuckabee could together destroy the repug party in NH.

[laconicsax]

27. Thompson!1!!!!!111

Who wouldn't want to see him as the guy to beat? The man who has to beg for applause from a crowd that invited him to speak. The man who isn't that interested in running for president. The man whose laziness is second only to his jowliness (Is that a word?) and his manly stench.

[Rowdyboy]

31. Romney would be ideal....the Huckster 2nd easiest to bear...

[Sparkly]

33. Alan Keyes!

He's so zany.

(Edit: I voted for Fred.)