Candidates for 2008

Darn, we didn’t get our submission in for this before it closed.  Too preoccupied with other things, and really it was a tough choice beyond a small number.

I must say I am pleased with the results.  Our favorite won, and our least preferred lost.  Beyond that it’s less clear, though Mitt seems to me like a good choice, if he could run competetively.  I think it would be amusing for a Republican governor from Massachusetts to win the Presidency and show up the most recent Massachusetts Democrats to run and lose.

A better choice would be Bill Weld.  He totally rocks.  There are ways in which the state vastly improved and became less bureaucratic and more efficient that go back to his administration, helped by his successors.  The registry of motor vehicles is no longer a laughingstock, for instance; more like a model of efficiency, with pretty decent customer service.  It also helps that he’s more of a libertarian Republican, rather than a conservative Republican.

Chances are nobody else would have thought of Weld, so he wouldn’t have gotten enough points to make the list, but he’d have been on ours.

We’re kind of hoping 2008 will be a Rice versus Clinton race.  That’ll be fun.  It wipes out the female advantage Hillary would have and ups her by black, as Deb pointed out.  It guarantees one way or another a woman will be President and gets that benchmark over with in an exciting way.  If Hillary runs against most anybody the Republicans can put up the way it appears now, Hillary should win.  In this house she’s hated yet respected, and not immune from garnering votes.  Against McCain, for instance, there would be no contest.

I’d like to think there is something so personally visceral in people’s reactions to Bush that the next race will shed some of the animosity between sides.  It should be interesting to see.

Anyway, the post is a selection by right of center bloggers of their most and least desired candidates for 2008.  It’s definitely an interesting selection.

1. I think you’re right about the intense visceral hatred against Bush.  I do hope that people settle down and conduct the next campaign much more graciously and with less personal polarization.  I know people who now won’t speak to friends and family members who were on the other side!  It’s painful and sad.

   At this point, I also think a Rice v Clinton race would be very interesting.

   Posted by Jenne  on  01/20  at  12:28 PM

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