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Updated take on the GOP field

By "Milbarge" and "Fitz-Hume"

There have been some changes since my last assessment of the GOP presidential nominees. Milbarge asked me to give an update on my feelings about the candidates. I'm giving it a shot, but I don't know how much my impressions have changed.

Rudy Giuliani
He still bugs me. Some of it's the anti-gun stuff. Part of it I'm sure is my deeply rooted distrust of politicians in general, and northeast politicians especially. If he ends up being the nominee, I will probly grit my teeth and vote for him, but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that.

Mitt Romney
Still strikes me as the Republican Bill Clinton. Too slick to be trusted. See above comments about north east politicians.

John McCain
Watching the Colbert Report the other week, he showed a statement from a McCain fundraiser that almost single-handedly made McCain my candidate. Addressing a group of donors from Smith & Wesson, McCain said, "I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell, and I will shoot him with your products." Take a moment for the sheer audacity and genius of that statement to sink in. He's pissed off too much of the base to win the primary, which is a shame. If he somehow does manage to pull it off, I will vote for him happily, and sleep well that night.

Mike Huckabee
Has made some waves, but those waves haven't reached where I live yet. Obviously doing something right, but I'm not paying close enough attention to know what it is.

Tommy Thompson
Is he gone yet?

Tom Tancredo
Gone yet?

Ron Paul
Bonus points for appearing on the Colbert Report. Impressed that he's managed to keep the sideshow up for this long, which says a lot about how annoyed many Republicans are with their own party these days.

Fred Thompson
Officially in now. Still my current preference. The case is being made for his laziness, but I have a hard time faulting someone who doesn't kill themselves on the campaign trail. Obama has done that, and then gets skewered for the mistakes he makes because he's tired. To me Thompson has the right attitude, intelligence, and common sense. The fact that he doesn't live to be President (see: Gore, Al) to me is a plus, not a minus.

Coming in the next few days. My take on the least bad Democratic option, as well as predictions on the eventual tickets.

Full post as published by Begging the Question on November 13, 2007 (boomark / email).