The Easiest GOP Candidates To Beat Are.....

[THUNDER HANDS]

In the following order:


1. Guliani
2. Romney
3. Thompson
4. Huckabee
5. McCain

In that order.

Guiliani would be a cakewalk. His campaign would implode without hardly any prompting by us. He's so scandal-ridden it's laughable.

Romney would pose an easy victory on both religious and core values grounds.

Thompson is just plain lazy.

Huckabee is going to turn away as many moderate Republicans as he brings in evangelicals.

McCain is their best all-around candidate. The only question is whether he has the stamina to run a year-long race. By November, 2008 he could look as ancient and depressing as Obama looks young and refreshing.

So, that's the order I would root for, if I was going to root for the GOP field. Guliani as the easiest to beat, McCain as the hardest.

Thoughts?

[Renew Deal]

1. I think you got it right.

I might put Thompson ahead of Romney. Romney is a say anything campaigner.

[styersc]

11. If the GOP thought they could sink Bill Clinton with a 20 year old

real estate blunder, they will fall over when they see the much more recent Romney corporate behaviour.

[yourout]

2. "By November, 2008 [McCain] could look as ancient and depressing ......." to late.

He looks ready for a lawn chair on a florida beach.....not a chair in the oval office.

[MadBadger]

3. 1. Romney, 2. Thompson, 3. Huckabee, 4. Ghouliani, 5. McCain

Romney is a Mormon and flagrant flip flopper so hed be the easiest. Ghouliani still scares me in Jersey, PA, Ohio, etc. And McCain is still the toughest.

[AX10]

4. Romney would be the easiest to defeat.

He's the most transparent and fake one out there.

[NanceGreggs]

5. I'd have to go with the generic ...

... All of the Above

[annie1]

6. I think Giuliani would be quite hard to beat, i'd put him at number 4 then mcCaine.

He can raise tons of money and people have this belief that he's prochoice. Versus hil, i think he could win. Even though he has an annoying lisp, he speaks fluently unlike hil. he's was a great lawyer and he could out debate her. he is shady as all hell and would stop at nothing, his a viscious freak and would stomp on hil.

i think mccaine could outdo hil or obama, but not edwards.

[yourout]

7. I think Diebold is the hardest to beat.

[UrbScotty]

8. Thompson

Then Romney, Giuliani, McCain, Huckabee.

[NAO]

9. McCain has no chance. Huckabee is THE threat, and he's a SERIOUS threat.

McCain has no chance. He is too unstable - he's had too many meltdowns - on camera. Plus he believes in junk science (aka global warming), and he doesn't think homosexuals should be killed. And he doesn't want torture. That's just WAY too many strikes against him to give him even a dim shot. He would be defeated on a scale not seen since that other AZ senator, Barry Goldwater, ran in 1964.

Huckabee REALLY scares the crap out of me. For MONTHS friends of mine who are Christians (I have been a rabid atheist for over 20 years) and ALSO firm Democrats, have been telling me that they REALLY LIKE Huckabee. For Months. Before he was a blip on anyone's radar.

Now he is doing well in the polls, and the Religious Reich, which I had hoped was destroyed by the Bush debacle, has someone they can rally behind and feel good about. A few months back Der Furher of the RR, "Dr" James Dobson had said he would not vote or encourage his VV Electoral Shock Troops (aka the Values Voters) to participate if Guliani or Romney was nominated. Dobson said it may be time to sit out an election. But now, with Huckabee, they have someone they can feel good about.

And DON'T underestimate the impact of the weight loss issue. Losing and keeping off 100 lbs qualifies anybody for Superhero status in today's United States. Don't think that won't come up as proof of his determination and sheer will-power to "get tough things done". And he'll use it to say that people with weight related health issues should lose weight and become healthy, just like him. Oh, wait, that is ALREADY part of his "Health Care" platform.

[NAO]

10. Governors with ADMINISTRATIVE Experience beat Senators with Legislative experience

so just lay out the type of experience of the respective candidates from both parties and see how that lines up.

[niceypoo]

12. A collection of Keystone Kops

They all remind me of the serial Killer Ed Gein with their attempting to crawl into Ronald Reagan's skin. Their "debates" consist of questions like, "whats your favorite color". None have to balls to separate themself from Bushes failures. Hell, they remind me of the democratic leadership.

[Tejanocrat]

13. Depends on our candidate. Edwards beats 'em all, Hillary beats Giuliani but loses to McCain, Obama

ties McCain but beats the others handily.

Generally, I think the easiest to beat include Huckabee and Thompson and Giuliani, Romney is slightly tougher to beat, McCain -- God forbid he gets the nomination -- beats Hillary but loses to Obama and Edwards (I hope, but Obama would have a squeaker).

Here's a chart I saw from another thread: