Rudy Giuliani
John McCain
Hillary Clinton
Condoleezza Rice
John Kerry
Al Gore
Oprah Winfrey
Ted Kennedy
George Pataki
Donald Trump
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The great and all-powerful SlabQuest sez:


John McCain


or Oprah Winfrey

unlikely it will be Hillary or any other Socialist (er, I mean Democrat)


remember, you heard it here first

right now id vote for feingold or mccain and thats it....


the dems arent as likely to give the nomination to hilary as many think....she is a red herring to get the finances that pay for political attacks to waste their money on the wrong person but many of us dems will fight tooth and nail to make sure that she doesnt get the nomination. i and most dems that i know are committed to progress within the party and not allowing the party to regress to its wishy washy-ness that caused us two major failures.......

John McCain must look pretty good to any Republican with critical thinking skills by now. And many Dems might find him an OK choice. He has supported Bush, and I'm not sure I'd forgive anyone for that.

As for a Democratic candidate, well Dems have a penchant for shooting themselves right out of contention. For example, they think a candidate from the NE is electable, yet it ain't happened since Kennedy, and won't in the near future. If the Dems want the White House, they'll have to find a credentialed candidate from the midwest or south, hmmm, kinda' like where they found Carter and Clinton. I have no idea who that might be, but I'm pretty confident about where a successful candidate won't be from.

The choice is actually much simpler than you present Slab... 'specially since 2/3 of the folks on your list ain't even gonna run.

Look for dark horse ex Virginia Governor Mark Warner to make a strong showing for the dems.

Hillary? There are just too many folks that don't like her and will not vote for her no matter what the reason.

I like McCain... but he's gettin' pretty old.

Guliani ain't conservative enough for the fundamentalist Kool-Aid drinkers to get behind him, IMO.

Just think, if Karl Rove had been injured in a hunting accident by Dick Cheney in early 2000, McCain would have gotten the GOP nod, beat Al Gore in a close election, and spared us from all of the misery of the last 5 years.

Ahhh, what might have been...

McCain has a lot of support among Democrats and Independents. For some reason he is regarded as a moderate. Not true. He is a right wing conservative and a hawk on the middle east.

SlabQuest, did you pull that list of possible candidates out of your ass? Aside from McCain I'd have to go with "none of the above".

SS,

The main reason I rarely visit this board is because the "regulars" are so quick to get nasty. What is the point of throwing personal insults right off the bat?

Anyway, please feel free to add to the list. You can pull the names from wherever you like.

now that ive said i would vote for mccain......he is allready dipping himself in "dont elect me sauce" by supporting Bush on the ports deal.....

slabquest- if socialism offends you then watch mcains comments the next few day regarding a country running our ports that is beyond "socialist" .....they are a dictatorship with no voting rights for the people

Here's a question:

Would our constitution allow Bill Clinton to run again?

I believe the answer is "yes".

Slabbie,

You lobbed the first insult. You can't be surprised that someone lobbed one back.

slab- i think the answer is yes as well .......no third term in a row is the policy from what i rember.... i might have to research that one

Who say's King George won't "interpret" the constitution again and try to stay in office? After all it say's "elected" and he was appointed not elected in 2000.

"The Twenty-second Amendment of the United States Constitution sets a term limit for the President of the United States, providing that "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." Prior to the adoption of the amendment, the constitution set no limit on the number of presidential terms. The United States Congress proposed the amendment on March 21, 1947. It was ratified by the requisite number of states on February 27, 1951."

If McCain runs again he will most likely win otherwise I think the voters have had it with the Rep party for a while. I'm still not convinced the Dem's didn't win the presidency both times anyway.

McCain is too old and too much of a Bush whore so forget him! He compromised his ethics by kissing W's a$$ too much.
For the GOP look for Sen.George Allen to make a run or maybe Sen.Rick Santorum, both right wing tools and after 8 years of fascism I think Americans have had enough.
I like Feingold, Warner and Richardson for the dems.
I think Hillary is too polarizing but would pick her over anything the GOP had to offer

I still like John Edwards, but I think I could vote for McCain.

i worked on the tom harkin campaign a bit way back in 91' and i still think he would be a good candidate.... other than tom harkin(almost no way he would even run again), i wanna see dark horses from both sides and no more re-heated leftovers......

but at this point, we almost need jesus himself, or someone else that can walk on water and then turn it into wine, to come back and fix this mess......or some sort of very patient, non-violent,period of protest and reform.. where we basically get rid of the entire congress and executive branch , disband both parties and start over by re-filling congress with all new faces in order to pull the weeds out by the roots

How about a McCain/Rice ticket......it covers a lot of bases.

Sorry Dave, I was on the Edwards bandwagon briefly, but his message is getting a little redundant with a southern lawyer overtone.......a v.p. yes, a president, no thanks.

But seriously, isn't about time for a real leader? The list above so far doesn't make me feel all warm and secure.

Snake: Cheany has proven we need to be careful who we choose for a V.P. Hell we don't dare impeach Bush. That would only make things worse.

Actually, I would like to see someone as president that has experience running our country , can handle crisis , can deal with scandal ". I think I just described Cheney, oops.

How about Hillary vs. Jeb. Just for laughs!

I do'nt think that there is one of them that is
worth a half a cup of cold piss.

Dan S,

Unlike SS's personal remark, my insult was to the entire Democratic Party. Surely you can see the difference.

I sure don't take it personal when Republicans get slammed on the BB.