What Republican could possibly run for President next?

I am an Independent and I vote for who I think is best for the job not along party lines...so I was wondering....given the current horrible disarray and fragmentation of the Republican Party as it has split into Religious Extremists, Lack's for the Banks and Insurance Companies....and thus Moderate Republicans are in short supply....who does anyone here think could run for President as a Republican and have any chance of winning?

AboveAlpha

 

Chris Christie? He seems to be the only reasonable Republican at this time. . .but I'm not sure I fully trust him!

 

That's a great idea, a moderate Republican governor who can win in a Liberal northeastern state, why haven't they tried that before, it seems like a natural.

 

I agree. I think it's a good idea, however, wait until the Tea Party folks hear his name mentioned and they're going to flip. The Tea Party are going to spoil any chance the Republicans have of winning because they are all fruit loops. Moderation isn't in their vocabulary. They're zealots.

 

The ONLY way the Republicans will have a chance to even do well never mind win the next Presidential election is for a Moderate Republican who can distance themselves far away from Right Wing Extremists to run.

AboveAlpha

 

Maybe team him up with a young conservative with big ideas, that sounds unbeatable.....

 

Come on guys stop making sense!

You know true conservatives don't change. They blame the last two elections on RINO candidates. Their solution is to be MORE conservative. Obviously you have to out-conservative the democrats to win! Obama was a fluke. If we put a real conservative up there like ol' Ted Cruz, he will win easily.. heh heh

 

Oh, maybe we should run someone you like and we don't? So you can still vote for your gal? No thanks. We will run a right winger against Hillary. Let the socialists and the capitalists have it out. You havent dumbed people down enough with the union schools yet.

 

McCain wasn't moderate? Romney wasn't moderate? Seems to me that your strategy has already been attempted.

 

Exactly. That's precisely why the left are getting behind Christie. They want him and Hillary in a race. That way our choice is Obama or Obama lite.

 

I would say Huntsman......but there is absolutely no way this current Republican Party would even consider him.

 

My hope is that the Tea Party faction will split from the Republican establishment and run their own candidate to split the republican party and ensure that there will never be another Republican in the White House. Better still, the Tea Party itself will further fracture between the fiscal conservatives and the evangelicals. yea.......bring it on!

 

I am a left leaning social moderate that leans fiscally conservative. I'd vote Christie over Hilary, actually. Most independent voters would.

 

??? And the OCCUPY darlings of the left are not?

 

You are a far left communist obsessed with creating equality of outcome by force. There is nothing fiscally moderate about your positions. I am that guy you have been arguing the last few days.

 

LOL, it appears you are too far gone. I am sorry you feel that way. I'm glad you know more about my political stance than I do.

 

Sometimes an unbiased third party like myself is in the best position to judge these things. Looking forward to continuing our argument in the other thread. You were on the side of cultural Marxism and me on the side of common sense and logic.

 

Gary Sinise

He could actually win........And he can speak a sentence.

Something we are lacking in a republican candidate.

 

It appears to be shaping up to be another wacky wild ride for the crazies in teh GOP clown car again!

Lust like 2011 and 2012.

I wonder if Herman Cain and Donald Trump are going to put in cameo appearances this time!

 

I hope so.!! Bachman and Santorum too!! I wonder what Palin is thinking about. Oh, she doesn't think...forgot.

 

Party doesn't matter - what matters is that no one who speaks the truth about the perils facing our country can be elected to a national office.

Any country that can elect the likes of Barack Obama not once, but twice - is all-but doomed as a free and fiscally sound nation.

If the majority of people are so ignorant so as to vote for such an obviously disasterous slate as that offered by the democrats, then no one who offers a rational message will be able to gain any traction. If a Republican is to win the WH, he would have to be offering the same message of give aways, fiscal irresponsibility, expansion of government, and curtailment of liberty that the democrats are offering.

It's sad, but America is finished as a free country.

 

The question is not which Republican should be chosen, but what Republican would even be willing to run. Any potential Republican candidate knows full well that if he runs he will be nothing but a mere token candidate and would suffer an overwhelming, landslide loss to any Democrat.

Of course the badly-beaten Republican would gain some face time and be able to book some pricy speaking engagements and show up on Fox to sell a book. But that's about all he could hope for.

Maybe they oughta give Mitt Romney another go at it. He'd probably get a lot of popular votes. He got enough popular votes the last time to demonstrate that not every American loves Obama.

Mitt would have won last time if more Republicans had voted, and if 80% of white Republican women had voted for him instead of Obama.

 

I actually live in Boehner's district (8th district of ohio) and as much as people try to criticize him, our district is doing pretty good. I also like Rand Paul as I spend alot of time in Kentucky and I get to see/hear him alot. And Paul is a tea party member so I dont know. I would consider voting for Rand Paul if he ran.

 

You are being very kind. . .I think they are also hypocrites and bigots!

 

Chris Christe is the beatable Republican candidate of choice by the Democrats. Sorry guys but the Republicans get to pick their candidates not you.