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Serious Poll: Best GOP Ticket

Best Gop Ticket


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After Christie gave his endorsement, I'm pretty much assuming it's Romney. Cain will likely get torn down somewhere in between now and the start of the primaries. So thus it's just a VP choice.

Romney-Huntsman
Romney-Santorum
Romney-Cain
Romney-Perry
Romney-Bachmann
Romney-Gringrich
 
If it's Romney-Huntsman, I will seriously consider voting Republican.
 
Well lets see based on the ones in the poll

Huntsman ---> By far my favorite candidate but gives nothing to the ticket, since he's viewed in a similar fashion to Mitt. Would be useless as the VP pick. Bad choice

Santorum ---> Would help shore up some of the evangelical base, but will drive away independents and turns an election that needs to be economic focused into a partially social one. Bad choice.

Cain ---> Not very experienced, but as VP that's less of an issue. Popular with the base which would help shore up a location Romney's hurting at. Private sector experience and economic focused which could help this election cycle. Could actually be the best choice out of this group.

Perry ---> Solid with the base, and as VP his debate skills won't be as big of a deal. However, such a large personality that it may not work as VP. Not a bad choce, not a great one.

Bachmann ---> See Santorum.

Gringrich ---> Would help a bit with the base, would trounce Biden in the little bit of VP debates that happens, and would be a good fit as VP. However, his baggage may hamper him way to much. Similar to Perry, not bad but not great.

Of the picks you've put forward, I would say Cain would be the best bet for Romney to pick as VP
 
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Barrack Obama - Joe Biden.

Assuming ANY of those tickets is on the Republican side of the ballot, I will be voting for Obama.
 
Well lets see based on the ones in the poll

Huntsman ---> By far my favorite candidate but gives nothing to the ticket, since he's viewed in a similar fashion to Mitt. Would be useless as the VP pick. Bad choice

Santorum ---> Would help sure up some of the evangelical base, but will drive away independents and turns an election that needs to be economic focused into a partially social one. Bad choice.

Cain ---> Not very experienced, but as VP that's less of an issue. Popular with the base which would help sure up a location Romney's hurting at. Private sector experience and economic focused which could help this election cycle. Could actually be the best choice out of this group.

Perry ---> Solid with the base, and as VP his debate skills won't be as big of a deal. However, such a large personality that it may not work as VP. Not a bad choce, not a great one.

Bachmann ---> See Santorum.

Gringrich ---> Would help a bit with the base, would trounce Biden in the little bit of VP debates that happens, and would be a good fit as VP. However, his baggage may hamper him way to much. Similar to Perry, not bad but not great.

Of the picks you've put forward, I would say Cain would be the best bet for Romney to pick as VP
Does sure up mean the same thing as shore up? :confused:

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I vote for Romney, but his second choice will be none of the above. I can't imagine Romney putting Huntsman (another Mormon) on his ticket.
 
I vote for Romney, but his second choice will be none of the above. I can't imagine Romney putting Huntsman (another Mormon) on his ticket.

who is it going to be, then?
 
It wouldn't surprise me if Romney picked Mitch Daniels as vp.
 
Well lets see based on the ones in the poll

Huntsman ---> By far my favorite candidate but gives nothing to the ticket, since he's viewed in a similar fashion to Mitt. Would be useless as the VP pick. Bad choice

Santorum ---> Would help shore up some of the evangelical base, but will drive away independents and turns an election that needs to be economic focused into a partially social one. Bad choice.

Cain ---> Not very experienced, but as VP that's less of an issue. Popular with the base which would help shore up a location Romney's hurting at. Private sector experience and economic focused which could help this election cycle. Could actually be the best choice out of this group.

Perry ---> Solid with the base, and as VP his debate skills won't be as big of a deal. However, such a large personality that it may not work as VP. Not a bad choce, not a great one.

Bachmann ---> See Santorum.

Gringrich ---> Would help a bit with the base, would trounce Biden in the little bit of VP debates that happens, and would be a good fit as VP. However, his baggage may hamper him way to much. Similar to Perry, not bad but not great.

Of the picks you've put forward, I would say Cain would be the best bet for Romney to pick as VP

You know what, I think Gingrich might be an excellent pick for the very reasons you state are his baggage. Gingrich is an ideas guy. He's great at putting together legislation and getting support. He just needs a face to distract the public from his bad choices in the past. He could sink away into the VP house and work on legislation day and night while Romney is out glad handing and making speeches....it might just be the best fit...if you assume Romney is the guy. And that is looking more and more likely every day.
 
You know what, I think Gingrich might be an excellent pick for the very reasons you state are his baggage. Gingrich is an ideas guy. He's great at putting together legislation and getting support. He just needs a face to distract the public from his bad choices in the past. He could sink away into the VP house and work on legislation day and night while Romney is out glad handing and making speeches....it might just be the best fit...if you assume Romney is the guy. And that is looking more and more likely every day.

By doing what?
 
If Romney wins the nomination, his veep will be a strong conservative. If he doesn't do that, his base will NOT be energized and that will mean BO wins again. The conservatives already know Romney is untrustworthy, he can't compound that problem by picking some weak ass RINO (daniels, huntswoman, christie, etc) as veep
 
IMO, the strongest GOP ticket would probably be Romney + a Senator/Governor who is not currently in the field.
 
Why would he choose another presidential contender to be his VP? Obama didn't. McCain didn't. GWB didn't. I don't think picking the VP from the pool of presidential candidates is the way things tend to go. More likely he'll pick someone who wasn't involved in this race, but is a supporter of his policy, and will bring in a demographic that he won't. I would imagine that he'll pick someone who's as mainstream Christian as possible to diffuse the Mormon thing, and who is as mainstream Republican economically to diffuse the issues about healthcare. Basically he'll need the most bland, vanilla, party line, talking point Republican he can. Mitt's advantages are that he's not a hyper-religious nut, and can appeal to some independents. But to shore up his base, and prevent them from voting for a Tea Party third candidate, he needs someone who will look good on Fox and soothe the fears of Fox viewers. Actually, with that in mind, Cain might be a good choice for him. The guy has no opinions of his own and is basically a party robot. But loyalty is an issue, too. You don't make the other side's general your right hand man.
 
If Romney gets the nod, he'd have to really **** up the VP selection or the general campaign to keep me from voting for him.
 
If Romney wins the nomination, his veep will be a strong conservative. If he doesn't do that, his base will NOT be energized and that will mean BO wins again. The conservatives already know Romney is untrustworthy, he can't compound that problem by picking some weak ass RINO (daniels, huntswoman, christie, etc) as veep

The problem being that the Vice-Presidency is WORTHLESS, and most Conservatives are not stupid enough to be drawn into voting for a candidate simply because his SIDEKICK is a better person than he is.
 
The problem being that the Vice-Presidency is WORTHLESS, and most Conservatives are not stupid enough to be drawn into voting for a candidate simply because his SIDEKICK is a better person than he is.

that's just not true. cheney ran our country for 8 years.
 
that's just not true. cheney ran our country for 8 years.

Neither he nor the President he served under are Conservatives in any way, shape, manner, or form.
 
After Christie gave his endorsement, I'm pretty much assuming it's Romney. Cain will likely get torn down somewhere in between now and the start of the primaries. So thus it's just a VP choice.

Romney-Huntsman
Romney-Santorum
Romney-Cain
Romney-Perry
Romney-Bachmann
Romney-Gringrich

I'm not assuming it's Romney, and every choice here has him at the top of the ticket, so I can't vote.
 
none. You can switch the names around and it would be none.
 
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that's just not true. cheney ran our country for 8 years.

If Cheney had ran the country, we would've been much more fiscally conservative.

I know you liberals just love taking uninformed pot-shots at Bush and Cheney, but c'mon...you can do better than that.
 
What about a Romney-Roemer ticket?
 
First of all, I don't think it's very likely that Romney would pick one of his current opponents (assuming he is nominated, which is still assuming an awful lot at this point). Anybody he does choose needs to be someone who's going to help him with the hard right.

Bachmann is too much like Palin, and that didn't go very well for McCain. Rick Perry doesn't seem like the kind of guy who's likely to play 2nd fiddle, so I'm thinking he'd say no. Santorum isn't likely to help with anyone who doesn't spend way too much time thinking about gay sex.

Of the choices, Gingrich seems most likely.
 
Gingrich's time is gone. His best shot would've been when he was receiving well-deserved praise for his Contract with America a few administrations ago.

His star is long fallen.
 
Gingrich's time is gone. His best shot would've been when he was receiving well-deserved praise for his Contract with America a few administrations ago.

His star is long fallen.

I'd agree with that. But given the choices available, it seems more likely than anyone else on the list.
 
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