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February 13, 2006
Looking Forward to 2008
This year's CPAC conference yielded no real front runner for the GOP in 2008, but a straw poll of the attendees resulted in the following:
George Allen: 22%
John McCain: 20%
Rudy Giuliani: 12%
Condoleezza Rice: 10%
Bill Frist: 6%
Tom Tancredo: 5%
Mitt Romney: 5%
Newt Gingrich: 5%
Rick Santorum: 3%
George Pataki: 3%
Undecided: 4%
*All others tested received 1% or less
George Allen is a senator from Virginia. And no surprise on Pataki being at the bottom of the heap; he's a RINO if I ever saw one.
As for the Dems, it seems Hillary may have a viable opponent:
HILLARY CLINTON would make an excellent president, according to Meg Hirschberg, whose husband runs a hugely successful organic yoghurt company in New Hampshire: “She’s amazing and brilliant and smart and lovely.”
So that’s a vote for Clinton in 2008, then? Not at all. Hirschberg is thinking of backing Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia, a likable, low-key, moderate Democrat who won a traditionally Republican state and, by all accounts, ran it competently. At this stage, it is enough of a recommendation.
“I don’t know a thing about him and I don’t care,” Hirschberg said last week as Warner listened to her husband explaining the finer points of organic farming. “I just want somebody with decent values who can win. It’s nothing to do with Hillary personally. It’s irrational and unfair, but she is polarising.”
That's an understatement.
Hillary’s campaign has not even officially started, yet some Democrats are already writing off her chances. Husband Bill, the comeback kid, went on to survive a number of near-death experiences and it may be just a blip on her road to the White House. But for the first time she faces a serious rival.
The lanky, toothy Warner, 51, was the keynote speaker on Friday at the annual 100 Club dinner of Democrat officials, party bigwigs and fundraisers in New Hampshire, the biggest event in their political calendar.
I know, I know, 2008 is ages away. Not really, though, in politics. Get out yer knives and shotguns, you Hatfields and McCoys...the election is closer than you think!
Posted by Pam at February 13, 2006 01:39 PM
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Posted by: scott huminski at February 13, 2006 05:25 PM
Haven't heard enough about Allen to make me interested yet. Pataki seems to suffer from being in a poll against McCain and Giuliani. On a logical basis he's not a bad candidate. He's a governor of a state that he can arguably put into play that wouldn't ordinarily be up for grabs for his party--and you can say the same qualification applied for Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. In a reasonably 50/50 nation winning an unexpected state can be huge, especially one like New York.
He does need McCain and Giuliani to drop out. I could see him beating Mitt Romney for the moderate spot, but not the other two.
Posted by: Pat Curley at February 14, 2006 12:55 AM
I've tried your blueprint. It is ugly.
moon-bats.blogspot.com
Posted by: paul at February 14, 2006 04:44 PM