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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich Republican candidate can you visualize as the Commander in Chief ??
Michele Bachman? "Get Barack Obama on the line and ask him what I should do?"
Ron Paul? "Get the hell out, right now!"
Rick Santorum? "Let us pray."
Newt Gingrich? "Call the Joint Chiefs and get the bombs ready."
Mitt Romney? "We need to find out how this is going to affect our business before we make a decision."
Rick Perry? "Let me call Dubya and see what he thinks?"
It's just difficult to imagine any of these Bozos as President of the United States. Whatever criticism we may have of Barack Obama, it is hard to argue that he has not been a strong Commander in Chief.
WingDinger
(3,690 posts)SixthSense
(829 posts)He was every bit as unprofessional as the worst of this year's sorry lot, about on par with Herman Cain.
kentuck
(111,079 posts)And none of the present bunch is even as strong as GWB. That should give pause to every voter.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Yes, Obama has been strong in the so called "war on terror" but he has been incredibly weak on just about everything else that matters to me. Environment, civil liberties, foreign policy. I don't want a "protector" president, I don't feel scared of terrorists lurking under the bed or in every corner. That was Bush's shtick.
AS far as the republicans go, they have nothing to offer, so they aren't even part of the equation.
kentuck
(111,079 posts)...using the military wisely. Not that we have to agree with it.
Not about the other issues you mention. I cannot disagree with you on many of those issues. Not that the Republicans would be any better on those issues either. I was only talking about the issue of Commander in Chief.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)and hence has no chance of winning the nomination.
think
(11,641 posts)SpiralHawk
(32,944 posts)The RepubliBaggers always choose Chickenhawks for their "Commanders" -- so they have lots of options. As always. Teh Newtie plays 'tough guy" the way they like, so I figure they will pick him as their Chickenhawk in Cheat. Newtie's pockets bulging with the socialist payola he took for "consulting" with socialist government agencies, his neck festooned with bling from Tiffany's, no one is more representative of what the RepubliBaggers are all about.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And I won't have to worry about it anymore. It would be horrible if any of them won.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)and every single one of them would make the Bush years look like the good old days and have us crying about not voting for Obama.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)I think he'd be a much better choice than MacArthur or Taft, and he'll probably get us out of Korea.
Oh--I suppose you meant THIS year. For some reason, my mind wouldn't even go there.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)I can't imagine any one of them successfully organizing a two-car funeral on a one-way street.
PatSeg
(47,410 posts)I even like him, though I don't agree with his politics. There was a time when he'd have been the perfect republican candidate, but now all the base wants is crazy and crazier.
Huntsman has all the bona fides to be a formidable candidate. Unfortuately for him the lunatics have been running the Repig asylum for some time now.
PatSeg
(47,410 posts)I remember when Santorum was the weird guy and now he's starting to sound almost normal. This is what happens when republicans cater to the fringe in order to win elections. They end up being stuck with them.
auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)Autumn
(45,057 posts)boxman15
(1,033 posts)But he's too center-right for the GOP so it'll never happen.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)Chuck Hagel
Richard Lugar
Olympia Snowe
Lamar Alexander
Elizabeth Dole
and (I'll probby get flamed for this), but: Jeb Bush
kentuck
(111,079 posts)would be Hagel and perhaps, Lugar, but he is old as the hills. Certainly not Snowe, Alexander, Dole, or Jeb.
Chipper Chat
(9,678 posts)But you have to admit they would be better than any of the nutty-pubs currently running in Iowa.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)Hell Hath No Fury
(16,327 posts)is the only GOP candidate I could take seriously in that regard.