Who would you endorse for each presidential primary?

[EagerBeaver]

Let's take a good poll here. I can't do this in poll form because it is a two-part question in the fact that I am asking everyone to name the candidate they would endorse for EACH political party. If you're Republican, or Democrat, it doesn't matter ... you have to endorse SOMEONE from each party.

I'll start.

Republican = McCain. Even though I don't like his stance on immigration, I like his stance on just about everything else and to me he is proving himself to be more capable for the job than 9/11 Guy or Mormonite.

Democrat = Obama. Purely based on the fact that Hillary is a sociopath. Obama's got something to prove, but the Presidential stage isn't the stage to do it. Lesser of two evils here.

Find out who I'm really endorsing for president on my website.

[paul]

I would have to pretty much agree with you and make the same choices.... The clinton's are the most devious politicians in modern history, IMHO

[forestwalker]

GOP: Huckabee
He's not ready for the presidency and I'm very disappointed in his kowtowing to numskullery on a couple of issues but it doesn't matter since he wouldn't win the general election. But he's the only side I can support in the current libertarian-traditionalist civil war the GOP is going through. McCain would be second choice.

Dem: Obama
I disagree with several of his positions but he's the best-positioned to allow us to move past the pettiness and shallowness that's defined our politics since Reagan. He has potential.

[MacUser]

I'm sorry McCain is a nut. I greatly, greatly respect his service in the military.. but not in the Senate.

Also America doesn't need Billary. But, is chosen.. she will trounce McCain ( Remember Dole Vs Clinton? repeat.), if by some feat 71+ McCain wins the Rep nomination.

[EagerBeaver]

MU why ain't you a McCain fan?

[dolfan]

GOP: Romney. I'm disappointed that my fellow Alabamians are shunning him for McCain and Huckabee, and I suspect it is more about him being Mormon than anything else. Issue for issue, he is more consistent with Alabama views than any other candidate by light years. More than any others, McCain and Huckabee have records that are against our interests on immigration, and either of them will continue to govern that way if given the office they seek. McCain never met a regulation he didn't like, and his cavalier running over the First Amendment is far scarier to me than even Bush's executive power grabs; McCain's censorship is the most dangerous of all in regulating political speech. Huckabee will spend us into oblivion, much like President Bush has, and he is pro big-government, which is anti-conservative.

Only Romney has experience and success in the private sector AND executive leadership experience. There is no question about his integrity, yet Huckabee is a proven shady dealer at best, and possibly a crook if the news articles about his, ahem, wedding gifts and furnishings as governor of Arkansas are trustworthy (and, they are and have never been refuted).

The votes in the south for McCain are last resort votes for people on the edge of just giving up, IMO. The votes here for Huckabee, IMO, have just as much to do with latent anti-Mormon sentiment and anti-Northern sentiment than they do with his actual qualifications for the office. Let me put it this way -- if Romney and Geo. W. Bush (having never been elected) were running against one another, Romney would have every qualification and then some that Bush had, and Bush won the Republican nomination walking away.

Democrats: Obama. Primarily, because he'd be the least effective of them. He'd be lead around by the nose by Senate Democrats, and would provide the best opportunity for GOP mid-term gains in 2010. I'd vote for Vladimir Putin before I'd vote for Hillary Clinton.

[MacUser]

MU why ain't you a McCain fan?

Quickly and simply....The guy doesn't like Evangelicals and has attacked them in the past. I remember this vividly and will post links as soon as I find them. He also voted against Bush tax cuts because the Govt. couldn't "afford" it. That's my money coming back and the Govt doesn't afford anything.. but just budget differently and give it back to the people whom pay it in. I don't like that type of thinking.



He is also a recently converted Global Warming nut + the fact that he lives on a border state and is oblivious to illegal immigration until he started running for President. Tons of other reasons also exist that result from his Senate service after Vietnam.

This 71+ guy has been in Washington forever.. what is HE going to do any differently that what he has also proven thus far? Hillary or Obama will trounce him. Repeat.. trounce him.

If the race is between McCain and Romney.. I'll take Romney.

[RamboPreacher]

Nixon
Carter

[DaJudge]

Nixon
Carter

I'd take Hillary over Jimmy Carter.

[one love]

Mitt Romney

Obama



If it is between mccain and Mitt I will choose Mitt. I would rather see guliani over mccain. Mac is right either obama or hilary will destroy mccain. We are either running against the first woman backed by the clinton power machine or the first balck president in which everything will be about race. Can you imagine if the republican wins florida by very small numbers. It will then be republicans cheated because they are racist.
I still wish Fred would have stayed in the race or got in earlier, I feel he could beat either of them. I do feel obama is the lesser of the evil.

[Paully_44]

I do feel obama is the lesser of the evil.

Seems like many elections boil down to this, "the lesser of the worst remaining candidates" for either party.

As for who I am voting for? not leaning toward any party yet. Guess I'll have to make up my mind soon though...... if only I could find my Magic 8 ball

[DeWayneTN]

I am voting in the Florida primary today for Huckabee. Probably my only chance to vote for him.

As far as the national election, there's a lot of mudslinging yet to go before I make my mind up.

[rough_rider]

M. Romney
F. Thompson, would have been my preference, but it was not to be.
Romney/Thompson ticket is one that I could live with...

H. Clinton

I would take Clinton over Obama, but they both are a scary thought...

[RamboPreacher]

Nixon
Carter

I'd take Hillary over Jimmy Carter.

yea, but I like peanuts. what's shrillery gonna give me? hehehehe

[Mike Vande]

A different candidate for each state's caucus. That would make the conventions a lot more interesting...