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Progressives: which GOP is your worst-case scenario President? Perry, Palin, other?

Worst GOP POTUS possible?

  • Sarah Palin

  • Rick Perry

  • Mitt Romney

  • Michelle Bachman

  • Newt Gingrich

  • Jeb Bush

  • other

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glenn1

glenn1

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Pretty straightforward. Which candidate (or potential candidate) would you consider your worst case scenario to imagine as Commander-in-Chief? That can mean in the sense that they scare you to imagine with the nuclear football, because of potential to be successful in pushing an agenda you oppose, or some other reason. Will have a poll including the realistic choices (e.g. no one that's dropped out of the running or said they won't run).
 
Bachmann. The depths of her lunacy absolutely amazes me. I fear for your country every time I see her mentioned as a front runner. I pray the GOP base is more discerning than the lunatic fringe.
 
Jeb Bush isn't in the race. Ron Paul would have been a better choice to be named in the poll.

It's a tough call for me between Bachmann and Palin. One is a little crazier than the other, while one is a little stupider than the other. Do I want someone who's moderately crazy and extremely stupid, or moderately stupid and extremely crazy? Hmm.
 
Poll missing 'all of the above', and seems pretty pointless - what does it matter?

I'm not comparing them, but what would it matter to ask which of the world's worst leaders you want - Hitler? Stalin? Mao? Pol Pot? George Bush? OK, had to throw that in.

If there were any less than horrible candidates for the Republican nomination it might make sense to discuss the differences. There aren't any.

To give an idea how bad they are: George Bush might be less bad than any of them.
 
Oh, I'm not a progressive. Well, I am, kind of, I'm a progressive-conservative.

I wish Hilary would run for pres, so we could have a winner in the bunch.
 
Bachmann

as much as some liberals like to gloat that Palin and Bachmann and the like are so unelectable that it would give Obama a 50-state victory, I think that America has been mostly a 45:45 country post-Reagan and once a candidate reaches the final round, no matter how bad they may be, they're basically one badly-timed gaffe away from winning.
 
Basically I fear the most stubborn partisan, who would be unwilling to compromise. Seems like the biggest teapartier is Bachmann, hence I voted for her.
 
Palin/Bachmann/Perry....either one and game over for America. At least Newt, blowhard that he may be, has a decent head on his shoulders. Romney is too pro-corporate for my tastes, but he is more moderate overall. Jeb Bush.....meh, standard Republican. I could live with either him, Romney, possibly Huntsman.
 
US Marxists (formerly known as libs) can't answer a question honestly for the most part. Hate and fear go hand in hand - what people fear they will hate and vice versa. Palin and Bachman are the most hated because they are the most feared. They aren't feared because they can win the election but because they show a commitment to morals that Marxocrats abandoned a long time ago. This is why the Soros/MoveOn crowd hate the tea party types more than Al Qaeda or Muslim Brotherhood etc. Romney is least persoanlly threatening of GOP candidates because he is milquetoast and has shown ability to sell out on principle to be popular. Libs can rock with that since they have the same nature. Palin and Bachman and Cain are scary to them though. They penetrate lib denial mechanisms. Perry is more like Palin and Bachman than Romney but he is also a bit plastic so they wont hate him as much even though he has a better chance of winning than the ladies.
 
finglobes said:
US Marxists (formerly known as libs) can't answer a question honestly for the most part. Hate and fear go hand in hand - what people fear they will hate and vice versa. Palin and Bachman are the most hated because they are the most feared. They aren't feared because they can win the election but because they show a commitment to morals that Marxocrats abandoned a long time ago. This is why the Soros/MoveOn crowd hate the tea party types more than Al Qaeda or Muslim Brotherhood etc. Romney is least persoanlly threatening of GOP candidates because he is milquetoast and has shown ability to sell out on principle to be popular. Libs can rock with that since they have the same nature. Palin and Bachman and Cain are scary to them though. They penetrate lib denial mechanisms. Perry is more like Palin and Bachman than Romney but he is also a bit plastic so they wont hate him as much even though he has a better chance of winning than the ladies.
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Wow, you are full of it. Your post is nothing but hate and fear. You know so little about liberal and progressive thought it is pathetic. You know even less about Marxism. If you knew anything at all about Marxist ideology, you wouldn't be equating liberals and progressives with them.
 
Drako said:
The progressives hate/fear women, so take your pick between Bachmann or Palin.
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Yeh- that's why Hillary is the only woman to ever come close to being a major party's candidate for president...

My worst nightmare is any of them that might actually win.
 
woolfe9999 said:
Jeb Bush isn't in the race. Ron Paul would have been a better choice to be named in the poll.

It's a tough call for me between Bachmann and Palin. One is a little crazier than the other, while one is a little stupider than the other. Do I want someone who's moderately crazy and extremely stupid, or moderately stupid and extremely crazy? Hmm.
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I'd vote for crazy over stupid any day of the week.
At least the crazies know what newspaper they read.

"Everyone that is stupid is crazy, however not everyone crazy is stupid."

I should add that I'm not a progressive, but I consider Palin to be the worst candidate on the list.
 
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MovingTarget said:
Wow, you are full of it. Your post is nothing but hate and fear. You know so little about liberal and progressive thought it is pathetic. You know even less about Marxism. If you knew anything at all about Marxist ideology, you wouldn't be equating liberals and progressives with them.
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Actually - I was trained by Marxist profs (in grad school) and have quite a few as friends. It's you who lack understanding - a reason you avoid any substance in your reactionary post. Obama's whole OBVIOUS class warfare fixation is demonstrably Marxist oriented (as is his resentment of America - like many of his buddies and appointees). However his fixation against white America makes him more of a neo-Marxist (which is why he pushes homosexuality at the same time as Islam - they only SEEM incompatible until you realize they share the same enemy as Obama the sociopath)
 
Palin is just a rather simple-minded politician taking advantage of her fame. I don't think she's going to run, but the speculation that she might has helped her keep herself in the spotlight. Bachmann, on the other hand, could be legitimately crazy. Perry isn't all that much better.

The rest of them have their own issues, but I think at least they have their sanity.
 
Bachmann. She's a true believer. Palin would probably just let one of her handlers make her decisions for her.
 
finglobes said:
Actually - I was trained by Marxist profs (in grad school) and have quite a few as friends. It's you who lack understanding - a reason you avoid any substance in your reactionary post. Obama's whole OBVIOUS class warfare fixation is demonstrably Marxist oriented (as is his resentment of America - like many of his buddies and appointees). However his fixation against white America makes him more of a neo-Marxist (which is why he pushes homosexuality at the same time as Islam - they only SEEM incompatible until you realize they share the same enemy as Obama the sociopath)
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I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this post. Your first two sentences I could easily say against you. Then, you go off on the same kind of FUD as your original post. Obama is a centrist primarily, maybe even center-right as his actions indicate. His actions have been in line with GWB, so he must have been a marxist too, right? Your class warfare argument is way overblown, as nothing Obama has proposed in terms of taxes, redistribution, etc. has been out of line of what we have seen historically in the US. If anything, he seems intent on working with and preserving the Capitalist system in the US. He hasn't called for wholesale or even piecemeal nationalization of the means of production. Marxism not found.
 
Least to worst:


Mitt Romney
Jeb Bush
Newt Gingrich
Sarah Palin
Rick Perry
Michelle Bachman

\it's like picking which is best - a cat turd or a dog turd....
 
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