Rankings: Top 25 For GOP 2012

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• Whatever said:

  David you're obviously out of touch to put Sarah Palin so low. You must not have seen the Republican Party polls where she's at the top of the list and your picks above her aren't even near her... they're in the single digits. And there's a bunch of Sarah Palin grassroots organizations online and offline. David get a clue... you have no clue what you're talking about.

  December 31, 2008 1:51 PM

• Dan said:

  Mitt Romney and Marc Sanford are rightly near the top because they are the best two candidates for sure.  Perry, Pence, and Pawlenty all have no chance.  Pawlenty's only chance is if Palin AND Huckabee don't run.

  December 31, 2008 7:17 PM

• lisa said:

  Who cares. None of them will win. The Republicans should just run John McCain again so they don't have to deal with a young party hopeful being smushed.

  December 31, 2008 7:34 PM

• MK in Arizona said:

  Mitt Romney should be number 1! He is obviously the smartest of the bunch and if not for Huckabee Mitt would have been the Republican nominee in 2008. He may not have been able to beat Obama this last time but once the country has had four years of his liberal policies they will be crying out for Romney and his economic sense.

  Romney/Jindal in 2012

  December 31, 2008 9:09 PM

• DOUG said:

  EVERYONE OF THESE GOP CANDIATES ARE LIKE BUSH. AMERICANS VOTED FOR CHANGE THEY WILL NEVER LOOK BACK.

  January 1, 2009 12:42 AM

• Jed said:

  Romney/Jindal for 2012!!!

  Intelligence and diversity!

  We want social AND economic conservatism!

  January 1, 2009 4:30 AM

• DC said:

  I'm glad to see that Palin and Huckabee are so far down on the list.  I think Obama would clean their clocks in a general election. If Obama is successful, I think any of these candidates will have a difficult time taking him on in 2012.  Romney probably has the best chance given his business expertise, strong leadership expereince, and support in swing states like Colorado, Nevada, and Michigan.  

  January 1, 2009 12:41 PM

• James said:

  All I have to say is, it's early but.....

  Romney/Jindal for 2012!!!!

  January 2, 2009 12:27 AM

• Dan Kennedy said:

  What was it that proved Mark Sanford's sanity for you, David? Was it when he finally agreed with the S.C. legislature — even the Republicans — that he should ask the federal government to replenish the state's depleted unemployment fund? Or was it when one of the two piglets he brought on a visit to the House chamber promptly took a dump on the carpet?

  http://tinyurl.com/8jqgjo

  I will confess that I didn't know a thing about him until yesterday, but I'm not impressed.

  January 2, 2009 1:02 PM

• Brett said:

  The clear winner didn't even make your list.  Ron Paul will run for president, and we will not let the media ignore him this time.

  January 3, 2009 1:06 PM

• Janice Maston said:

  Are you kidding me.  The man who is willing to turn down federal funds for the unemployed is about to become our next President. Sorry, that would never happen.

  January 3, 2009 4:13 PM

• max said:

  i think john chambers or meg whitman would fill that final spot.

  if whitman becomes gov. of california, watch how fast she flies up these lists.

  January 9, 2009 11:51 PM

• Evan from Maine said:

  Mitt Romney in 2012!

  January 18, 2009 10:23 PM

• Mark in Ohio said:

  John Boehner.  He can stick it to the Dems like no other!

  February 17, 2009 10:20 PM

• Isaac Grove said:

  Someone who's a true fiscal conservative, and someone who is for heaven's sakes a social liberal. I can't tolerate the Neocons and fundamentalists like the ones who believe in the "sanctity" of marriage, and the "privelege" of life. We aren't a Theocracy. We're a Republic. Which means that one's rights are defended by the law and the law rules over the people and the government. Get the "majortiy rules" and democracy idea out of your heads. Less government means less government. It means that government can't tell you who you can and cannot marry, and it can't tell you whether you can or can't have an abortion. Pro-capitalism, pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-Amtrak, pro-gun, pro-separation of church-state, anti-corporatocracy... those are a few characteristics I would like to see in a candidate.

  February 20, 2009 9:13 PM

• reaganw said:

  Huckabee/Palin 2012!

  July 4, 2009 9:15 PM

• charles said:

  Well I'm taking your changing your number one no doubt. Well although I think Mitt Romney was a great governor and I like his healthcare plan. I don't want him simple, because he raised taxes as governor and he flip flops on certain issues. Palin I think she's down for 2012 maybe 2020, but yet I don't think she'll run for anything ever again. Why? Because do you realize how much money she could make as a private citizen. She has large family if she writes a couple of books her family is set for life. I'm positive Huckabee will run so maybe Palin will take his show on Fox. I like Jindal,Hutchinson, and Gingrich, but I won't vote for them in the primaries unless they support a Fair Tax. Ron Paul I like almost every idea he has, but he'll be way to old to run and he's a little nuts. So I'm actually leaning more towards Gary Johnson former Governor of New Mexico. He's run his own business before, great governor, and he's got kind of a style that Ron Paul didn't have. So overall I think we need a women on the 2012 ticket. I'm definatly going republican in 2012 and I'll be willing to vote for Huckabee,Paul,Perry,Johnson, and maybe Rudy in 2012.

  July 7, 2009 12:31 PM

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