Who do Republicans want for President?

[pappy]

In a nutshell here are the support levels for the GOP Presidential candidates as "Real Clear Politics" has averaged the polls taken between 12/14 and 1/5:

Romney 26.8% or 73.2% anti Romney
Gingrich 22.6% or 77.4% anti Gingrich
Paul 12.6% or 87.4% anti Paul
Santorum 9.4% or 90.6% anti Santorum
Perry 5.8% or 94.2% anti Perry
Huntsman 2.02% or 97.8% anti Huntsman

Logical conclusion (IMO) is that Republicans don't want a Republican President given their choices.

[jaxx]

Well according to this the Newtonians don't want Romney:




Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Saturday, January 7th at 12:58AM EST
110 Comments

In an RedState exclusive, we’ve obtained a copy of the latest salvo in the GOP 2012 Presidential primary — “Not Romney”.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/07/not-romney/

The places I have to go to to find the news!!

[kahuna]

(01-07-2012 10:28 AM)jaxx Wrote:  Well according to this the Newtonians don't want Romney:

Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Saturday, January 7th at 12:58AM EST
110 Comments

In an RedState exclusive, we’ve obtained a copy of the latest salvo in the GOP 2012 Presidential primary — “Not Romney”.
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/07/not-romney/

The places I have to go to to find the news!!

Joe Scarborough is always quoting Erickson like he's "the" conservative authority.

[azmouse]

When November rolls around, Republicans will vote for their nominee but they will most likely have to hold their nose to do so.
I suspect most will be voting against Obama rather than for their candidate.

[OptimistesMaddie]

(01-07-2012 10:37 AM)azmouse Wrote:  When November rolls around, Republicans will vote for their nominee but they will most likely have to hold their nose to do so.
I suspect most will be voting against Obama rather than for their candidate.

If it's Romney I predict the Evangelical right will stay home.

[Still a Democrat]

(01-07-2012 07:26 PM)OptimistesMaddie Wrote:  

(01-07-2012 10:37 AM)azmouse Wrote:  When November rolls around, Republicans will vote for their nominee but they will most likely have to hold their nose to do so.
I suspect most will be voting against Obama rather than for their candidate.

If it's Romney I predict the Evangelical right will stay home.

The candidate that will bring out all the repugs is Obama.

[OptimistesMaddie]

(01-07-2012 07:46 PM)Still a Democrat Wrote:  

(01-07-2012 07:26 PM)OptimistesMaddie Wrote:  If it's Romney I predict the Evangelical right will stay home.

The candidate that will bring out all the repugs is Obama.

are jumping ship, I have been seeing more and more comments after each debate that the cannot support any of these candidates. So I say let the debates continue, let them spend their money......

[KonaKane]

(01-09-2012 09:47 PM)OptimistesMaddie Wrote:  are jumping ship, I have been seeing more and more comments after each debate that the cannot support any of these candidates. So I say let the debates continue, let them spend their money......

And let them bleed away support for any of these fools. It's all good to me.

[Andy823]

I assume that was a miss print since the only half way "sane" one, Huntsman, has always been in last place.

Isn't it amazing just how unhappy the overs seem to be with the whole bunch of them this year? This is the worst crop of candidates I have seen in my life. I thought 2008 was bad, but this bunch is way, way worse than 2008!

[pappy]

(01-07-2012 12:17 PM)Andy823 Wrote:  I assume that was a miss print since the only half way "sane" one, Huntsman, has always been in last place.

Isn't it amazing just how unhappy the overs seem to be with the whole bunch of them this year? This is the worst crop of candidates I have seen in my life. I thought 2008 was bad, but this bunch is way, way worse than 2008!

Thanks for the catch, it should be 2.2%. Unfortunately the clock ran out on my ability to edit my post....perhaps an administrator can correct my error for me (please :notworthy

The fact that Republicans are so unhappy with their crop this year is much to my point. The punditry keeps asking why 75 to 80 percent oppose Romney yet 75 to 98 percent oppose the whole list.

I wonder if this may be an indicator of the possibility for a strong 3rd party candidate from the right?

[Andy823]

(01-07-2012 12:24 PM)pappy Wrote:  The fact that Republicans are so unhappy with their crop this year is much to my point. The punditry keeps asking why 75 to 80 percent oppose Romney yet 75 to 98 percent oppose the whole list.

I wonder if this may be an indicator of the possibility for a strong 3rd party candidate from the right?

I also wonder if someone will decide to run on as an independent. Ron Paul has said he won't, but his followers may convince him otherwise. This is his last shot at this, so who knows what he might do.

Then there is Newt and his "ego". They may decide "what the hell" and go for it in order to stay in the publics eye, and to help increase his speaking fees of course!

And last but not least, I don't want to forget the Alaskan dimwit who might let her "followers" convince her to go for it since it looks like Mitt will be the republican nominee, and she really might have to run since he does not see things her way, and we all know what she is like!

[azmouse]

I added the decimal point for you, pappy.

And changed the 6 to a 9 to make Perry's numbers add up to 100%. I hope that is alright.

[pappy]

(01-07-2012 01:47 PM)azmouse Wrote:  I added the decimal point for you, pappy.

And changed the 6 to a 9 to make Perry's numbers add up to 100%. I hope that is alright.

Absolutely OK.

Thank you

[Drunken Irishman]

Ultimately, with this batch, the answer will be 'not Obama'. In the end, as it was for the Democrats in '04, it's not going to be a winning strategy.

[DFW]

I was talking about this with Richard Viguerie, with whom I usually agree on exactly nothing. The one thing we both agreed on was that the Republicans were so far pretty well decided on None-Of-The-Above.

Though somewhere to the right of Attila The Hun, Richard was the only one I know who correctly predicted that Santorum would tie Romney in Iowa.

[jaxx]

To hear Newt tell it, the repubs want a Ronald Reagan clone. I notice that since Bachmann is gone the others do not dig up St. Ronnie in the debates. Just Newt who thinks he is himself the second coming.