Who would like to see run for President of the USA in 2012, and why?
I know this is a little early for some peoples liking, but as demonstrated in 2008, I don’t have any one or two people that are sticking out in my mind for a good candidate. I’ve been researching and looking around for a while now and have a couple good people in mind, but whether or not they would run, or be able to mount a successful campaign is another thing.
I personally liked Huckabee, but he doesn’t have the organizational skills, or seemingly the party behind him. He has tried to up his exposure through his TV show, and various state trips though. I don’t think he’s given up yet.
Another one that I’ve looked at actually just had a story on FOX (which did prompt this thread, since I must not be the only one wondering about 2012 at this point. Link ), is Haley Barbour. He did a good job with Mississippi while Governor there (no new taxes, helped balance budget), but I think his past as a lobbyist might come back to bite him in a Presidential election.
Two Hoosiers jump to mind. Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence would make solid candidates. Newly elected Governor John Kasich would be great too but he can’t start campaigning for President within months of being elected Governor. He’ll have to wait until 2016 but by then the field is going to be really crowded with a whole host of rising stars from within the Party.
2016 could be a star studded class for the GOP with candidates like Gov. Chris Christie, Rep. Paul Ryan, Gov. Robert McDonnell, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, Sen. Marco Rubio, Sen. Rob Portman, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Sen. Mike Lee, Sen. Ron Johnson, Gov. Susana Martinez and Gov. Nikki Haley. Odds are a bunch of them will fail to live up to the hype or become the victim of some self inflected wounds but that would still leave a couple really good candidates.
I like Chris Christie, especially for how he’s given the unions in NJ a big fuck you, but I need to see how he is on the 2nd Amendment, he is from New Jersey after all. Jindal is pretty solid on the 2nd already.
Christie is a lot like GWB when it comes to the second amendment. He isn’t going to push any major pro second amendment legislation, but he he’ll appoint judges like Roberts and Alito and the anti gunners won’t find him remotely interested in supporting any new legislation.
I want someone who’s going to cut funding to BATFE, and who we could possibly expect being open to rolling back some anti-gun legislation, like the portion of McClure-Volkmer banning new production of machine guns, maybe the parts of the Brady Bill that didn’t expire, or Bush Sr.'s import ban. I know the 1968 GCA would be a stretch.
I’m going to go out on a limb. Considering our current financial crisis and the devaluing of the US dollar along with the continued failure of both parties, I’d like to see Ron Paul make a run. If not maybe Bobby Jindal or Mitch Daniels. No more Rhinos. No more commies.
Mitch is one of the only politicians I’ve ever voted for who has done exactly what he promised - balanced a budget without cutting school funding (he reduced the increases though, which made the teachers unions cry about “cuts”) created a pro-business environment, added new jobs due to business investment, got Indiana time in line with the rest of the country (enacted DST), passed property tax reform and caps.
He did fail to reform local government due to blockage by Democrats in the state legislature, but that’s all changed since Tuesday and I expect things will move ahead.
He got the budget in order during the good years instead of going on a spending and hiring spree, so Indiana has been able to weather the recession much better than Illinois next door.
He’s will be the best President we could elect based on demonstrated experience. I like Pence a lot, but he’s not an executive, he’s a legislator. Still, I’d take Pence over Romney in an instant.
Write me in and everything will be good. There will be no mercy to our enemies and I will seek out the smartest minds to solve our economic issues.
I will also declare martial law (for a short time) and crush all opposition parties. Then everything will be back on track. I will also seek a repeal of the NFA of 1934 and revamp of the 1968.
So much comes out about their positions and records during the primary process.
Whoever runs will need to be able to pull all the conservatives and independents, while having little to no Black or Hispanic support if they want to have a prayer of winning