2008 Repuke Cattle Call: The knuckle-draggers can't be happy with this group of duds. (TJ at KOS)

[jefferson_dem]

Very well put, by Trapper John at KOS ---

Imagine, if you will, that the three front-runners for the Democratic nomination were: 1) Joe Lieberman; 2) a fundamentalist Christian governor of Utah, and; 3) an anti-choice former mayor of Colorado Springs who isn't just against gay marriage, but who actively and publicly dislikes gay people.

Ouch. That wouldn't be much fun. In fact, it might well sour the Dem base on the entire primary process. Fortunately, we have a much less offensive candidate pool. But Republicans looking at their real field of candidates must feel much the same as we would in the nightmare scenario above. Because each one of the top three candidates in the inaugural 2008 GOP Cattle Call has at least one trait that makes them anathema to large swaths of the Republican base.

MORE AT LINK ---> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/12/8/204147/318

[Mojambo]

1. I think it's going to be Huckabee too.

He's exactly what the Republican party wants. An empty, evangelical suit.

[Norrin Radd]

2. I'm thinking the repugs'll pull out some totally-off-the-radar freak.

Unless they get one of those guys on that list to do a 180 on whatever issue that individual supports that irks the reactionaries, the fundies, and or the trogolodytes.