Create the Republican ticket.....

• BoatShoes

  This would never happen but I would support a ticket of:
  
  Mitt Romney: President
  Richard Luger: Vice President
  
  Sen. Luger would be 80 though by then
• Bigdogg

  BoatShoes;592571 wrote:This would never happen but I would support a ticket of:
  
  Mitt Romney: President
  Richard Luger: Vice President
  
  Sen. Luger would be 80 though by then

  
  Sounds like a winner to me, but will never happen.
• fan_from_texas

  I'm pulling for Romney at the top of the ticket. The veep isn't as big of a deal, so I'd vote for a midwestern conservative to balance things out.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  I would hope someone like Daniels or Jindal would head the ticket.
• BGFalcons82

  

  Ty Webb;592525 wrote:You're kidding right?

  
  Have you seen Christie debate? Do you see how he conducts pressers vs. the way Obama reads speeches at his pressers? Come on, Ty, it's no contest. One of them can answer questions without any "uh..um...uh...y'know..um....ummms" and the other one is the teleprompter king. The only difference is it took Foreman a few rounds to drop Joe....it won't take Christie quite nearly as long.
• BGFalcons82

  

  ptown_trojans_1;592566 wrote:Right now, I'm not sure anyone has the ideas or policies that would defeat the President.
  If I had to chose it would probably be Portman, Christie or Thune. All are silent on all issues except spending and taxes.
  
  I'll add three I wish would run.
  1. Lugar, but too old as Boatshoes said.
  2. Chuck Hagel-foreign policy guy and gets things done. But, not in spotlight.
  3. Colin Powell-But ,would never do it and has lost a of R support with his support of Obama.

  I know you like Lugar for his foreign policy work, but he's not presidential and he's got about 80 annular rings.
  Hagel...same as Lugar only not as old. I agree with your analysis above.
  Powell is NOT a Republican, no matter what he claims to be. He's further left than Lyndsey Graham, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe COMBINED.
• Ty Webb

  

  BGFalcons82;592789 wrote:Have you seen Christie debate? Do you see how he conducts pressers vs. the way Obama reads speeches at his pressers? Come on, Ty, it's no contest. One of them can answer questions without any "uh..um...uh...y'know..um....ummms" and the other one is the teleprompter king. The only difference is it took Foreman a few rounds to drop Joe....it won't take Christie quite nearly as long.

  
  Obama would destroy Christie..and yes I have seen him debate
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Ty Webb;592835 wrote:Obama would destroy Christie..and yes I have seen him debate

  
  Iunno. I think Christie would get him on taxes, spending, unions, but Obama would get him everywhere else.
• BGFalcons82

  

  ptown_trojans_1;592842 wrote:Iunno. I think Christie would get him on taxes, spending, unions, but Obama would get him everywhere else.

  
  I agree on any economic item it would be an azz-whoopin by Christie. Foreign policy...who knows. In terms of being able to handle himself, answer questions directly, and not say, "uh um ummm, well, uh, umm..huh...well...", then the governor would win simply on the ability to answer questions succinctly. Folks like Ty won't like the actual answers he would give, but the command of the issue and the ability to define it, would certainly not be in doubt.
  
  For a refresher on the POTUS' ability to answer questions cleanly and directly:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEAO0lt4Dw&NR=1
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKahLz3EZEw
• jhay78

  

  Prez- Ronald W. Reagan
  VP- Thomas Jefferson
  
  Romney needs to stay as far away from the R ticket as possible. The other R primary candidates should hammer home how bad health care is in Massachusetts thanks to Mitt.
  
  I get excited about Jindal, Christie, Brewer, etc., you know, people with actual executive experience. I still have no idea what the final ticket would look like.
• Apple

  

  Christie would destroy BHO in a debate and every common American who watched it would know it.
  
  Christie would talk in common terms and come off as a friend of the common person who thinks big government is the problem.
  
  BHO would lecture and come across as a pompous elite professor know-it-all type who thinks government has all the answers.
• Ty Webb

  

  Apple;592875 wrote:Christie would destroy BHO in a debate and every common American who watched it would know it.
  
  Christie would talk in common terms and come off as a friend of the common person who thinks big government is the problem.
  
  BHO would lecture and come across as a pompous elite professor know-it-all type who thinks government has all the answers.

  
  That how Republicans thought he came off againist McCain and look what happened
• bigdaddy2003

  

  That was different. The country was never going to vote in another R in 08 and they were all excited about "hope and change."
• BoatShoes

  jhay78;592872 wrote:Prez- Ronald W. Reagan
  VP- Thomas Jefferson
  .

  
  Let's not be silly here. Neither of these men would be on a modern day republican ticket so I'm not sure if it's even fair to list them as "republicans".
  
  Ronald Reagan is far too "fiscally libera"l to satisfy the modern day conservative. No peace time president has raised taxes so much on so many people.
  
  Thomas Jefferson's views on foreign policy could not be more incompatible with the modern Heritage foundation style view and would be lambasted for his religious views by the conservative base and he's the only president ever to not veto a single bill sent to him by Congress. He likely would also be repudiated for his fascination with the French which is just downright an Uhmerricaaan.
• Apple

  

  Ty Webb;592878 wrote:That how Republicans thought he came off againist McCain and look what happened

  
  McCain is no Christie! He is a long-time US senator who is used to going out of his way not to offend his opponent. Christie, on the other hand, isn't afraid to call a spade a spade and if what he says offends his opponent, so be it... sometimes the truth hurts.
  
  America needs someone who is not afraid to dish out some tough love so we can get out of the mess both parties have put us in.
• believer

  

  Ty Webb;592835 wrote:Obama would destroy Christie..and yes I have seen him debate

  A few months ago you were sharing polls that convinced you that the Dems would destroy the Repubs in the midterm elections.
  
  If Obama does the Clinton tango with the Repubs the next 2 years like he just did with the tax cut extension deal, he'll be tough to beat. But if the left-wing of the Dem Party pressures BHO to toe the party line and behave like he has the past 2 years, just about any of the Repub possibilities above will have a field day.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  fish82;592260 wrote:Mitch Daniels probably deserves some mention too.

  
  This. "My Man Mitch!"
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Ty Webb;592878 wrote:That how Republicans thought he came off againist McCain and look what happened

  
  Do you honestly think it was his debating skills vs. McCain that got him elected. People saw McCain as another Bush, and that was enough to vote for BHO out of spite. I know a handful of people who voted for BHO because they didn't want to vote for McCain, not because they liked BHO.
• I Wear Pants

  Apple;592875 wrote:Christie would destroy BHO in a debate and every common American who watched it would know it.
  
  Christie would talk in common terms and come off as a friend of the common person who thinks big government is the problem.
  
  BHO would lecture and come across as a pompous elite professor know-it-all type who thinks government has all the answers.

  What is a "common American"?
  
  And why is calling someone a professor somehow an insult?
• CenterBHSFan

  

  He didn't just describe a professor. He described "a pompous elite professor know-it-all-type".
  And THAT'S where the insult lies.
  
  Big difference
• Apple

  

  CenterBHSFan;593180 wrote:He didn't just describe a professor. He described "a pompous elite professor know-it-all-type".
  And THAT'S where the insult lies.
  
  Big difference

  Thank you and well said.
  
  IWP- By "Common American" I mean your average Joe or Jane, non-political type who votes.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  ernest_t_bass;592979 wrote:Do you honestly think it was his debating skills vs. McCain that got him elected. People saw McCain as another Bush, and that was enough to vote for BHO out of spite. I know a handful of people who voted for BHO because they didn't want to vote for McCain, not because they liked BHO.

  
  This. Plus I know people who voted for Obama simply to "make history" as they put it. They admittedly knew nothing about his policies. Just simply that they would be helping make history.
• believer

  

  bigdaddy2003;593531 wrote:This. Plus I know people who voted for Obama simply to "make history" as they put it. They admittedly knew nothing about his policies. Just simply that they would be helping make history.

  True. I knew a lot of 18-25 year olds this past election who voted for Obama for this reason alone.
• justincredible

  

  believer;593627 wrote:True. I knew a lot of 18-25 year olds this past election who voted for Obama for this reason alone.

  
  Yeah, seemed like the cool thing to do. Luckily I'm not cool.
• CenterBHSFan

  

  justincredible;593632 wrote:Yeah, seemed like the cool thing to do. Luckily I'm not cool.

  Justuncredible