Which Republican would you feel most comfortable with in Obama's cabinet?

[Bicoastal]

Note: some of these individuals have officially left the GOP--but they still count.

[Bicoastal]

1. BTW, sorry about the RickPoll.

[CoffeeCat]

2. I wouldn't mind Jesse Helms...

Although I disagree with his politics--there's no real damage that he
could inflict, at this point.

;)

[hlthe2b]

16. What's a little post-mortem stench, among "friends..."

:eyes:

[sandnsea]

3. Chafee or Snowe

It is always stunning to me that I'm the one attacked as some sort of right wing plant when I see polls like this on DU.

Hagel? Powell? Really???

No.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

4. Well. I voted for Hagel.

Really.

[patrice]

5. Both voted against HR114? Or was that Chafee only?

[sandnsea]

11. And? n/t

[patrice]

15. An important, though not the only, point to some of us.

And I WAS asking, but nevermind; I'll go look it up.

I like OS, I really do! HR114 is just an important orienting point for me.

[sandnsea]

18. So I have to look up HR 114?

And figure out which HR 114 you're specifically referring to?

[patrice]

19. Otherwise known as the IWR.

Pardon my obtuseness.

Perhaps I should have said HR114 '02

[sandnsea]

21. That was actually H.J. 114

The first HR 114 I found was a property tax resolution.

Anyway, I sincerely hope you let go of that as your primary criteria for judging politicians. It's how a lot of people ended up enamored with Ron Paul.

I think it would be great if the Green Party were the Party Obama had to worry about appealing to. But I can't seem to get anybody on this board to see the wisdom in that.

Wouldn't it be great if the Republicans were the radical right wing fringe that nobody paid any attention to?

[patrice]

24. I won't tell you what your value system should be if you won't tell me mine.

Condescend much?

[sandnsea]

25. Wow. You responded to my post

expressing your value system. But I can't?

What the hell is condescending about hoping that people don't use the IWR as their political meter for the rest of their lives?

[patrice]

27. You were telling me what shouldn't be important to me.

[sandnsea]

29. Did you miss the word "primary"?

Or do you just not understand what it means in the context of the sentence I wrote?

And yes, now I am being condescending. Which is a whole hell of a lot more polite then what I'd be if you were standing right in front of me.

[patrice]

30. wow

:rofl:

[sandnsea]

32. Either put down the booze or take your pill

You're nuts.

And now go alert on me. Run. Hurry.

Good fucking god what a nutbin this place is some days.

[patrice]

33. Neither, thanks. But perhaps you should take your own advice.

[patrice]

26. HJR114 = either monumental cupidity or selling People down the river.

In either case, it's an important point in the political history of this country.

[EconomicLiberal]

6. A dead one. n/t

[CTyankee]

7. I'm the Snowe vote and I did so because I am reconsidering my former position

of "no Republicans ever." Here's why:

We need broad consensus in this country on some basic issues and we won't get it until the Republican Party as it is now formulated is strangled out of existence. We cannot survive as a country with its toxic brew of being racist, sexist, anti-science, homophobic and anti public education. We can't. Therefore, it would make sense for us to "help along" those Republicans we can do business with on a serious level. When Ike was president, he was a proponent of family planning, for example. We knew when Stevenson was defeated that we wouldn't have a wild eyed, brimstone and hellfire preachers making federal policies. Darwin was taught in the public schools. Public education was valued because it lifted everybody up. We differed on lots of things but not the basics that made our society strong. It enabled us to make that breakthrough on racial equality and then onto women's equality (lawyers in Nixon's Justice Dept. wrote the Equal Pay Act!). Gerald Ford supported the Equal Rights Amendment and Betty Ford was actively pro-choice. You get my drift...

If more Republicans get more liberalism bred into them, we will be a better country.

[LWolf]

8. Jim Jeffords.

A republican turned independent.

[LiberalFighter]

9. To make sure that we don't regret their appointment...

a dead one.

Abraham Lincoln would be good.

[TexasObserver]

10. Olympia Snowe, because she's capable, and we can use that seat.

Susan Collins, I'm afraid, is not qualified for a Cabinet post. She's not very bright.

[last_texas_dem]

12. Lincoln Chafee*

* with an asterisk because he is now an Independent...

Otherwise... Snowe, I guess, b/c she does hold some socially moderate views. However, I was disappointed with how little she and Collins ever stood up to *, even when he was advocating for ideas that went against what I perceived to be their principes, when he was popular; neither of them are exactly profiles in courage...

I'm not really comfortable with Repugs in any defense-related positions. Even those who later "saw the light," like Powell and Hagel, were far too comfortable playing the neocon game when their standing up on principle could have really made a difference.

[sabrina 1]

13. I always liked Chafee

He was the only Repub who voted against Bush and said so publicly, in 2004 airc. He's a decent guy, unlike so many of the rest of the current Repub Party.

[Unsane]

14. Lincoln Chaffee isn't a republican.

[MadHound]

17. None, fuck that shit

Fuck that bipartisan, reach across the aisle and get screwed shit. We've tried that time and again and what do we have to show for it? An illegal, immoral war, a shredded Constitution, and an economy sliding into the abyss.

What I would much rather see is somebody like Kucinich in as Health and Human Serivces Secretary, but we know that's not going to happen, the Democrats would much rather play political footsie with their equally corporately corrupt opposites across the aisle that elevate one of the few in Congress who has been on the right side of the issues for years, and who isn't corporately corrupted.

[MgtPA]

20. Susan Eisenhower, dammit!

[Metta]

22. Aside from Abe Lincoln, none.

They're all ass kissing traitors, imho.

[Nipper1959]

23. Other

Abraham Lincoln is the ONLY republican worth considering.

[PBS Poll-435]

28. Other

Bob Rumson

[globalvillage]

31. It's time for serious people.

And his 15 min are up.