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Woke up early. First vote. Mark Samford. Related story.
Also that couch video from the morning links is really damn . . . damning.
I voted don’t care, but really, it’s none of the above.
Michael Steele should be the guy.
How come Ron Paul is not on the list?
None on that list. Besides, it does not matter anymore than Howard Dean “leading” the democrats. I doubt that Howard Dean had anything to do with how this last election turned out.
Sanford/Flake 2012.
Newt Gingrich, we need a new NEW contract so we could convince the libertarians again that we are serious about limited government.
/s
Seriously though, their only hope is the message(s) of Ron Paul if not the man himself.
My vote goes to Gary Johnson.
None of the above.
Since Ron Paul is persona non grata, even among those pundits pointing out where the GOP went wrong, and calling for a return to Taft/Goldwater/Reagan principles, I second the nomination for SC governor Mark Sanford.
Good link Alex!
*aaaargh*… damn the lack of an edit button!
Totally missed Sanford in the poll at first glance.
Well if it’s Sarah Palin you can be sure the GOP is DOA next election too.
Sarah Palin’s sudden “prominence” shows me how things could have played out if Bush the First had failed. Dan Quayle would have been seen as a centerpiece of the GOP instead of the colossal joke that he became (and rightfully so).
Can the GOP stop aligning itself with the evangelicals long enough to realign itself with the rest of the country? They seem to breed ignorant politicians more so than any other type of Christian.
Fred Thompson seemed the best candidate in the primaries this year. I doubt he’ll be running again though.
The evangelicals don’t deserve represnetation anymore as far as I’m concerned. I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I figured there would be a big backlash against this element of the GOP by the moderates of the party. I haven’t really seen it, but maybe i’m just not paying enough attention. When you consider that it’s their agendas that really pissed off so many people in this country and helped to get big government politicians in power on both sides of the aisle, I thought that there would be a larger movement to abandone these assholes for liability reasons.
Why is Radley Balko not a choice?
Because, from what I’ve heard, Radley Balko is a socialist democrat who was secretly in the tank for Obama.
Ron Paul
Voted for Palin.
SNL needs something to work with.
Who is Jeff Flake?
I voted for Sanford. I read a few articles about him today and am becoming impressed quickly.
Jeff Flake is a Representative from Arizona, and a really good politician from what I’ve seen of him. A pretty consistent limited-government conservative, which is a rare sight these days. Too bad he’s basically an outlier in his own party now, at least compared to the party leadership.
I would go with flake or sanford, but neither is a true reflection of their party. (This is also partly why McCain lost). I voted for Palin because I think a Palin-Huckabee ticket would be just the thing to pound the last nail into the GOP coffin. They would win all the states McCain did except Montana, Georgia, Arizona and possibly Missouri. Relegated to their status as “the redneck party”, the GOP can go into quiet oblivion and a real party of Lincoln may emerge.
I believe Bobby Jindal will. From what I know about him, and from what I’ve heard him say, he will actually CUT PROGRAMS to go along with tax cuts. Which is what we’ve been missing for nearly 3 decades. JINDAL IN ‘12! I am assuming he would respect civil liberties more than the Bush crowd as well. Or maybe its all just wishful thinking on my part.
I’m with Rob D. (#6) in supporting New Mexco governor Gary Johnson. I lived in ABQ during his 8 years in office and he was great. He went so far as to veto spending for landscaping when they rebuilt the I-25/I-40 interchange in the middle of town. He didn’t think it should have been the state of New Mexico’s job to pay for it.
He left the state with a substantial budget surplus – which Bill Richardson probably used to purchase a legacy for himself as an executive. The man vetoed more spending bills than I can remember and streamlined state government considerably.
He could easily go in Radley’s “smoked but successful” list too. Successful businessman, 2-term governor, triathlete, etc. Not to take anything away from Dr Paul but we need someone younger to carry the libertarian brand in the Republican party.
You left out Gary Johnson, former Governor of NM, who is easily the most mainstream-viable Ron Paul supporter going into 2012. He’s already hinted at a possible run, and he’s also probably more libertarian than any one else up there. The only problem is that by the time the 2012 primaries start cooking, he’ll have been out of office for nearly a decade. So it really depends on him doing a really good job laying the groundwork for the next few years.
Mark Sanford is another good choice, but I honestly don’t think he’ll run. Despite his close ties to reason, I’m less enthusiastic about Jeff Flake. He’s a hard-line fiscal conservative, but he’s not at all on board with the idea that the GOP should abandon pushing social intolerance and moral authoritarianism. He’s more like Tom Coburn- really great on some issues, even willing to come around on Iraq, but still very much a social conservative.
Frankly, I’m not optimistic that the GOP is heading in a more libertarian direction. I think for right now it’s going to veer off more towards social conservatism and economic populism, a la Huckabee (who spent a good deal of his new book blaming the GOP’s problems on libertarians. Seriously), and that that will go down in flames in 2012. The best case scenario is probably not a more explicitly libertarian GOP but a return to the “businessman’s party” and George F. Will/William F. Buckley style intellectual conservatism that focuses on economic liberty and is ambivalent towards social issues. Think Phil Gramm snarling at the Moral Majority crowd about how he “wasn’t running for preacher.”
Where´s Tom Coburn? ;-)
@#20, “john”:
Bobby Jindal is not a reformer, he’s Huckabee with a tan.
While he at least seems to be honest and uncorrupted (a rarity in Louisiana politics), he’s sucking up for GM to be bailed out (they have a plant in Shreveport), and is touring the state touting his bigger, better plan to make sure every child in the state has health insurance.
Ron Paul