Who will be the Republican Nominee For President?

[Razgovory]

They are starting to run out of not-Romney's.  Only Santorum, Huntsmen, and Paul haven't been the anti-Romny flavor of the month.  Paul is too crazy, Huntsmen is too sane, and Santorum is too creepy.

[fhdz]

I think we can all reasonably agree some sort of existence is involved.

I categorically refuse to be reasonable.

[grumbler]

Cain is imploding. He is getting by the media right now. And this year has been a media driven race, as exhibited by the rise of Cain  in the polls despite his lack of organization or name recognition. Today, there are reports that Cain is "reassessing" his campaign amid reports of a 13 year affair. Cain's numbers are dropping also. I wouldn't be shocked if he drops out before Iowa.

Yeah, I read about that after I wrote what I did.  The first sexism charges had actually given Cain a bounce, but follow-up accusations of the same thing are deadly, especially when they cannot be refuted.  I agree that he is dead.  No one is going to send money to someone they think won't be around to spend it on 'the message."  No money, no Cain.

[KRonn]

At this point I have to hope it's Romney, or Huntsman, though Huntsman doesn't yet seem to have much of a chance. The others seem to be not ones I'd like to see run. Gingrich is the current flavor of the month but he's too irascible, unpredictable and more.

[The Minsky Moment]

The basic contours of the race remain what they always have been since Christie passed: every candidate other than Romney has obvious, deal-breaking flaws that render them non-starters on any reasonable calculation.  But Romney, while solid on paper, backed by a disciplined organization, and with significant fund-raising resources, appears wooden and obviously contrived in his debates and public appearances, is distrusted by the base, and probably does suffer to some degree from the Mormon factor.  His consistent inability to crack the 25% poll ceiling has got to be concerning at this point.  As is the fact that Romney not only hasn't benefitted from Cain's collapse; his numbers have actually dropped a bit.  Bill Clinton was kind of in a similar situation at the same stage in 92, but Romney doesn't have Clinton's ability to connect with voters at a human level.

[grumbler]

Gingrich is the current flavor of the month but he's too irascible, unpredictable and more. 

To be fair, you'd be irascible, too, if you had to pretend you were a moron in order to get any active Republicans to vote for you.

[Neil]

Nixon.

[Eddie Teach]

Nixon.

Five bucks says Kennedy's gonna beat him.

[Siege]

Cain is the man.

[Neil]

Nixon.

Five bucks says Kennedy's gonna beat him.

Never happen.

Speaking of which, isn't Sirhan Sirhan coming up for parole in the near future or something?

[Tonitrus]

Gingrich would give Obama a run for his money in the debates (heck, even if one disagrees with him, he'd probably trounce Obama on substance), but in the end, his problem is that he is completely unelectable.

[MadImmortalMan]

Gingrich would give Obama a run for his money in the debates (heck, even if one disagrees with him, he'd probably trounce Obama on substance), but in the end, his problem is that he is completely unelectable.

I hope he gets the nomination, just so the debates will be cool.

[stjaba]

I think my throw my support to Cain after the release of this map demonstrating his proposed foreign policy:

[fhdz]

What's Cain's distinction between "rival" and "competitor"?

[jimmy olsen]