"Only 38% of Republicans are satisfied with their GOP Presidential primary choices"...LINK

[Blackhatjack]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/014313.php

A new poll finds that only 38% of Republicans are satisfied with their GOP Presidential primary choices.

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This backs up my belief that the eventual Repub Nominee has yet to enter the race.

[Greeby]

1. Maybe they just won't bother this time around

And the Democratic nominee can debate the other party's candidates.


Hey, I can dream, can't I? ;)

[Catch22Dem]

2. I believe you might be correct...

Someone like Thompson could REALLY shake up the race.

[TwilightGardener]

5. My sense is the nominee won't be Thompson. He's really not going

to be that strong of a candidate, once the hoopla surrounding his entrance into the race dies down.

[TwilightGardener]

3. The ridiculous thing is, they all want someone more conservative

than the moderates they have in the top tier--the most electable, in other words. But folks are worried about more important things than gays getting married, or smaller government, or taxes this time around--I don't think we're trending conservative. We've had eight years of a fairly weak version of conservatism, and it's gotten us nowhere--I doubt an even stronger version of it will sell in '08.

[sellitman]

4. I have a very conservative friend who HATES his parties choices.

Makes me all warm inside.
:)

[Mz Pip]

6. They want the fake

law and order guy. Nice voice, an actor, can bullshit better than most... Never mind that he is a politcal lightweight with no foreign policy experience. He'll act his way through it.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Rosemary2205]

7. Almost everyone I know is a moderate/indy

Where I live is a little less red than most of Georgia but they really tend to go moderate conservative in "my" part of Atlanta. Anytime there are political discussions the R's aren't even part of the discussion. All the talk is about the choices on the D side.

[Blackhatjack]

8. The splits in the Repub Party will show in the Repub Nominee...

IMHO the conservative fundamentalists are not going to support Giuliani and McCain, and certainly not Romney.

The conservative members of the Repub Party are looking for Newt Gingrich to enter the race, and he is making noises like that is going to happen.

The moderate and disaffected members of the Repub Party are looking at who can win in the General Election, which will require someone who can reach the independents/Undecideds and Unaffiliated voters. That could be an opening for Hagel or Bloomberg.

In any event, the Repubs have to hold the coalition together to get to 50% plus 1 in the General Election, and none of the current announced Repub Candidates can fill the bill.

[entanglement]

9. Sorry pukes, Adolf isn't running in 08

n/t