Straw poll

So does this poll prove Obama can win the Republican primary? lol

It's not a poll about the primary, but about the election. If I'd been aware of anyone planning to primary Obama I'd have included them also.

I bet Kucinich runs against Obama. He likes the limelight.

Nobody here likes Newt so far. Interesting.

Science Chic wrote: motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/jon-huntsmans-climate-problem
Jon Huntsman's Climate Problem
— By Kate Sheppard
| Thu May. 19, 2011

Jon Huntsman is gaining traction as the notably less-unelectable potential GOP presidential candidate. So far, he hasn't said or done anything (ahem, Gingrich) that hurts his prospects. Unless, that is, you count his remarkably sane comments on climate change.

Time's recent profile http://www.time.com/time/nation/article ... 03,00.html of Huntsman, until recently the Obama adminstration's ambassador to China, is most notable for all the policy areas that Huntsman declined to weigh in on (including Afghanistan, Libya, or any specific issue on which he differs from either Obama or his fellow Republicans). But in excerpts of the interview http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/16/qa ... eir-ranks/ released this week the potential candidate does offer his thoughts on both climate change and the policies with which to address it. And while he now rejects cap and trade, he doesn't dispute the underlying science:

It's a refreshing position coming from mainstream (if moderate) Republican, but does it go too far for his partymates? So it seems. The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner unleashed a storm of barely readable crazy http://spectator.org/blog/2011/05/17/mo ... oughts-fro at the American Spectator lambasting Huntsman's statement. Writing at Commentary, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/ ... -huntsman/ Jonathan S. Tobin demand a Tim Pawlenty-style apology from Huntsman renouncing his climate views. (Lisa Hymas has more on the right-wing response over at http://www.grist.org/election-2012/2011 ... candidates Grist.)

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article ... 03,00.html
Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear
By Melinda Henneberger / Columbia, S.C.
Thursday, May 12, 2011

He's done. Must be a socialist!

everyone's a socialist except nmysys and maybe outdoor

towermonkey wrote: He's done. Must be a socialist!

You're joking but you raise an interesting point.

A candidate has to be a complete hardcore, extreme right-wing type to win the support of the Tea Partiers and hence the Republican nomination but anyone they like is not going to be electable in a general election.

I think they've painted themselves into a corner.

AspenValley wrote: Nobody here likes Newt so far. Interesting.

He's so yesterday.

AspenValley wrote:

towermonkey wrote: He's done. Must be a socialist!

You're joking but you raise an interesting point.

A candidate has to be a complete hardcore, extreme right-wing type to win the support of the Tea Partiers and hence the Republican nomination but anyone they like is not going to be electable in a general election.

I think they've painted themselves into a corner.

Right on AV, it all started to crack after this last election when the tea party members realized that some of the republicans, even ones they helped elect, were not following the tea party dictates and are now being targeted for removal. They may have been elected because they could appeal to some independents, but if you take away that appeal with far right, hard core tea party candidates, the Republicans could well lose some of their gains.

I think the tea party is at a point where they either have to mellow into the existing Republican party and accept some moderates, or break away and create their own party.