GOP Candidates: Who does the best against Obama?

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  1. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...-runner-in-the-battle-for-the-gop-nomination/

    What about the showdown in November 2012?

    According to the poll, taken before the announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, President Barack Obama has an edge over all the top GOP candidates in hypothetical match-ups.

    Who does best against Obama? Paul. The congressman from Texas, who also ran as a libertarian candidate for president in 1988 and who is well liked by many in the tea party movement, trails the president by only seven points (52 to 45 percent) in a hypothetical general election showdown. Huckabee trails by eight points, with Romney down 11 points to Obama.
     
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  2. Denny Crane

    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Moving up in the polls.
     
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    the illuminati would never allow it. :tsktsk:
     
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    I really think Ron Paul is the only one on that list who could give Obama a run for his money.
     
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    Ron Paul is legit.....
     
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    I wish Forbes would run for office, but he doesn't have the balls to do it. His economic ideas are way "Out of the box" thinking. I loved his idea on a Federal Sales Tax, instead of income tax. Basically no one pays income tax, no write offs, no IRS, no deductions. You pay tax as you go. Meaning: If you go to the store and their is a 10% federal sales tax, you pay taxes. All the tourists, drug dealers or people that buy things for cash, will all contribute to the good ole USA.

    The elimination of the IRS alone will save this country trillions of dollars each year.
     
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    sounds exactly like Huckabee's plan.
     
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    Wasn't Huckabee that proposed the "Flat income tax"?
     
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    lol I actually thought that was Forbes.
     
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    Hahahahahaha I got it backwards! LOL
     
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    You mean, outside of his completely failed attempts to run for President in the past?
     
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    You know damn well that dude half assed it. No nut sack to run for real!
     
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    GOP Presidential Debate on Fox tonight? Really? Already?
     
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    Although I have more respect for Ron Paul than for most of the R candidates, as a democrat I'd be very happy to have him be the candidate. Very, very happy.

    barfo
     
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    FTFY. I hope he doesn't go crazy and start deleting candidates randomly and have to be banned.

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    sounds exactly like ross perots plan from 20 years ago
     
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    ron paul is getting alot of love here in nh
     
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    This is a good question, who can mount a campaign against obummer with any hope of winning. A guy I know had dinner the other night with George W.

    It was about 12 others and W, he was very candid when asked questions. One of the people there asked him who he thought would have a chance, and his response was that it had to be a Governor, someone that had dealt with the things one a smaller scale, but indeed, much of the same process. He also impressed upon those there his belief that the guys from the smaller states, RI, NH etc, would not have the steam.
     
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    Chris Christie, come on down!
     
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