A poll showing Rudolph Giuliani would beat Hillary Rodham-Clinton in a head to head campaign for the US presidency in 2008 may be a bit misleading. The polled showed Giuliani would win convincingly.
As a Southern Conservative, I’m not so sure of that. You see, Mr. Giuliani is from the Northeast. It makes no difference that he is Republican, the fact remains that he is from the northeast and we simply will not vote for a “northeasterner”. Conservative Republicans will stay home on election day if Giuliani wins the nomination.
Now, the fact is that neither Party can win a presidential election, in this country, without carrying the South. Hillary cannot carry the South. Giuliani cannot carry the South… and John McCain cannot carry the south.
So where does that leave the Republican Party? Looking for another candidate, a southerner, or a midwesterner that is a conservative, believes in a right to life, and preferably the governor of a Southern state.
I make no predictions here, because I haven’t the slightest idea who the candidate will be, but If the Republican party wishes to remain in control of the Congress and the Presidency, they had better not run Giuliani, or McCain, for President. The same goes for the Democrats running Hillary. She cannot win. Neither can John Kerry.
Senator Bill Frist shot himself in the foot, recently, for the third time, and has committed political suicide as far as his plans to run for the Republican nomination for the presidency. He’s done.
Making no predictions now, but more and more the gaze of Southern Republicans is turning to Jeb Bush. The top of our wish list holds Condi Rice, then, Jeb Bush, and then, Newt Gingrich. Yep, ole Newt!
All three of these Republicans have track records, which could be useful, in a run for the presidency.
I’m not looking for a dark horse candidate coming from somewhere deep within the ranks of the GOP. I believe the candidates are already before us and we need to be paying close attention in the next few months.
My personal preferences are as listed above, Rice, Bush, and Gingrich. Even a combination of any two of those for President and Vice-President would be good… for me. But, then again, that is only me.
The campaign is just around the corner, so we had better get geared up and ready to launch our guy, or gal, as the case may be.
“Longstreet”
3 comments:
Were McCain or Guiliani our choice as Republicans, if Southern Conservatives neglected to vote for them (or anyone else), in effect leaving say Hillary Clinton to win, would be most UNRepublican. You are putting geographical differences ("yankee go home attitude") above what is best for our COUNTRY.
yeah that would be cool. let 'em sit on their hands and we walk in!
what happened to colin powell? run him at least he was ashamed of being forced to lie to congress about WMD and intelligence. Although he did not know WMD was a lie, almost any sentence containg the words "The Bush administration has intelligence" is obviously an oxi-moron. Or like our APPOINTED president just a moron in deed.
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