Which Republican candidate could you MOST bear to be stuck in an elevator with?

Prancing with the Republican Stars - Judges agree:
Too Creepy, Too Sleepy, Too Cheery, Too Kooky, Two Faced and just Too Much

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The media is working overtime to prop up Republicans and undermine Democrats

The media is getting into full campaign mode. They don't miss a chance to laugh off every Republican scandal and flaw and hyperventilate over every petty Democratic facial blemish. Rudy shacks up with his mistress on the city dime, has policeman assigned to pooper scooper duty, builds the NYC Emergency Command Center at a convenient location in World Trade Center Seven to double as a love shack for pre-wife Judi and Lou Dobbs declares that the scandal has no legs. Can you imagine the tsunami of coverage the "Sex on the City" scandal would have whipped up if the adulterer in question was John Edwards, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton?

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(left to right) Rudy 911ani, Fred Tiredson, John McCheerleader, Tricky "I am not a Kook" Huckabee, Two-Face Mitt Reaganfeller, and Gandalf Paul

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FEATURED COMMENT From dougymi

Obviously mitten

He's bound to have some undocumented immigrants working for him that would actually know how to unstick the elevator and save the day, rather than the brainless muscle (and chauffeur) talent that rudi employs. btw, that would eliminate tancredo since he would shoot the undocumented good samaritans before they started work.  mccain's stories have all been heard before so he's boring. thompson would just nap in the corner, so he's boring too. I've got a feeling dr. paul is claustrophobic and I couldn't handle the screaming. huck would spend all his time praying fruitlessly for rescue.  hunter would try to get out using the Terminator 2 method of shooting an automatic weapon randomly at the top of the elevator to make big enough holes to crawl through.

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•  Let's elevate this campaign (TIP JAR) n/t

  by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:20:47 PM PDT

•  Huckabee might be interestng

  to talk with

  by plf515 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:28:16 PM PDT

  •  I would like to talk to him about

    
    How the Huckabee administration worked to free rapist Wayne Dumond.

    by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:18:06 PM PDT

•  Probably McCain

  As long as he didn't try to hug me or anything.

  

  by phenry on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:32:11 PM PDT

  •  I have always loved that picture

    You can almost hear McCain breathing in the smell of Dear Leader.

    by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:33:54 PM PDT

    •  Smells like sulfer!

      by Rex Manning on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:37:47 PM PDT

    •  Did Bush wash his shirt with Febreeze?

      by Greasy Grant on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:50:06 PM PDT

•  Are you allowed to

  waterboard them, while you're trapped in the elevator?  Or at least tell them what you think of them?  This could seriously influence my vote, you see.

  by jmm1 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:32:17 PM PDT

•  Apart from politics

  McCain is a real live hero, I could ride an elevator with him.

  by 1918 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:35:37 PM PDT

  •  courage and fortittude? good choice!

    by PhillyGal on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:42:48 PM PDT

  •  McCain was a hero, but

    I lost any respect for him when he sucked up to Bush after Bush attacked his family and when he sucked up to Jerry Falwell after first calling him an "Agent of Intolerance."

    by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:08:20 PM PDT

    •  Like I said ...

      apart from politics.

      by 1918 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:47:30 PM PDT

      •  @1918 - You are right

        I don't respect McCain as a politician, but he has a history that deserves respect.

        I should have said:
        I lost SOME respect for him when he...
        instead of
        I lost ANY respect for him when he...

        ...did those things

        by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 02:34:56 PM PDT

  •  apart from everything else,

    I'd think McCain deserves respect for what he went through as a POW, and his position on waterboarding (and torture in general) marks him the lone genuine American on this roll of dishonorables.

    by BlackSheep1 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 03:21:28 PM PDT

•  I would not even get into an elevator if

  I saw any of them even approach one!
  Maybe because it is because I am female and not "born-again". My life would be in serious peril around them all!

  by Temmoku on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:40:30 PM PDT

•  So goofy! but I'll play ---

  1st choise: definitely Paul, b/c he's a medical doc, and will treat any possible injuries -- that's important for survival

  2nd choice: the Huckster, b/c we can pray together, and have a few laughs too:)

  3rd choice: Thompson .. he's so boring, he'll put me to sleep, and sleeping thru a crisis? ain't so bad!

  by PhillyGal on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:42:19 PM PDT

  •  Ron Paul was an OB/GYN.

    As George W. Bush might say...  oh, don't go there.

    I chose Huckabee; he seems to have a soothing way of speaking which would help get us through the ordeal.  The bad news is he might fool enough independent voters to make a serious run for the White House.

    by Greasy Grant on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:46:23 PM PDT

    •  operative word there: WAS

      an OB/GYN.

      Man makes no bones about being anti-choice.
      Man makes no bones about believing the division between Church and State should not exist.
      Man makes no bones about his support of/by/for KKK types. It's the Dominionism, stupid!!

      Libertarian my shiny white yes.

      by BlackSheep1 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 03:23:18 PM PDT

•  I'll go Guiliani

  because of all of them, he's probably the only one who in his heart doesn't give a shit one way or the other that I'm queer.  He's a creep, but he's NOT a homophobe. In fact, he's what we so quaintly used to call, in SF in the 90's, "sex positive".  

  by lgmcp on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:44:28 PM PDT

•  Thompson

  Tweety says he smells good -- like cigar smoke and English Leather.

  I hate getting into elevators with the stinky guy.

  by droogie6655321 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:44:37 PM PDT

•  Obviously mitten

  He's bound to have some undocumented immigrants working for him that would actually know how to unstick the elevator and save the day, rather than the brainless muscle (and chauffeur) talent that rudi employs. btw, that would eliminate tancredo since he would shoot the undocumented good samaritans before they started work.  mccain's stories have all been heard before so he's boring. thompson would just nap in the corner, so he's boring too. I've got a feeling dr. paul is claustrophobic and I couldn't handle the screaming. huck would spend all his time praying fruitlessly for rescue.  hunter would try to get out using the Terminator 2 method of shooting an automatic weapon randomly at the top of the elevator to make big enough holes to crawl through.

  by dougymi on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:48:07 PM PDT

  •  Great Comment

    I am going to feature this comment in my diary.

    by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:50:03 PM PDT

  •  you might want to check....

    top comments!

    by nonnie9999 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 06:19:12 PM PDT

    •  @nonnie9999 Thanks for the pointer

      I would have missed it.

      by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 09:41:45 PM PDT

      •  @nonnie9999 P.S.

        Thanks for submitting it. I did not notice that at first.

        by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 09:46:16 PM PDT

      •  hey duke!

        i was listening to the randi rhodes show today, and she was talking about the great artwork on dkos that appeared under the sex on the city theme. she was clearly referring to your diary, and i got so excited.  i was hoping that you heard it as well. it wasn't a passing mention either.  she went on for a few minutes about how great they were.  take a bow, duke!!!  i am proud to know you.

        by nonnie9999 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 10:37:46 PM PDT

        •  Wow

          I will have to check it out on the podcast. Thanks again.

          by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 11:30:54 PM PDT

•  I think that Mike Huckabee

  probably would be my choice if I had to be stuck in an elevator with a current candidate for the GOP nod.

  Of course, he wouldn't enjoy the non-stop grilling about his useful idiots role in the convicted Arkansas rapist's release that was done out of spite born of pure Clinton Derangement Syndrome. Something that I sure he knows lead to an innocent person's murder.

  But that's just my way, I guess.

  I agree with you the media is in the bag again. It's 2000 all over again... they hate Hilary Clinton with a passion that makes their hatred of Gore seem subtle, but if its Obama or Edwards they will just shift their memes and frames to fit their anti-Democratic narrative. It doesn't really matter to the David Broder, Joe Klein, Maureen Dowd Axis of Weasel who the victim is as long as they have one.
  
  I think we have a few things going for us, things that we didn't have in 2000 or 2004. Like that the GOP candidates are so bad that it can't be whitewashed. That their flaws, flip-flops, and heresies against GOP dogma cannot be covered up with fawning cable news coverage and we are that much better than we were back then in acting as a kind of counter-cable news network online. Also, the GOP brand is really badly damaged in a way that it hasn't been since Watergate.

  They really screwed it all up.

  Somehow, back in 2000, the media's hatred of Al Gore allowed a wounded GOP to counter the damage that was done to the GOP's brand due to the Impeachment fallout. At least long enough to set the stage for the Florida debacle and the loser being crowned the winner. (Something that was, I admit grudgingly, aided by Al Gore's rather foolish mistake not to run no-holds-barred as the heir to the Clinton legacy. I blame the professional election losers in his campaign for this part of the mess. They played right into the Broderites bullshit.)

  There is no GOP candidate who is a lock to even with the nomination, let alone resurrect the GOP single handedly. And any Democratic candidate can beat any of their front runners because of the fallout of the Bush years. This is a new thing to me. Hasn't happened in my lifetime: a potential Realignment election going to the center left on every level of the Federal government.

  One of the biggest daggers the elite DC cocktail party crowd had against the blogs was the whole "their people never win" schtick. 2006 hasn't changed their narratives about the blogs, but it has hurt their credibility as arbiters of who is 'serious' or not. One chip at a time.

  I am thankful that you didn't ask "which one of the GOP candidates could you live with as President?"

  The answer would be None. No way. No how.

  They are all varying degrees of Bushie.

  A GOP winning the 2008 race would be like a "which cancer would you mind having the least?" choice.

  by LeftHandedMan on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:50:00 PM PDT

  •  I hope you are right

    I hope this estimate of yours is correct:

    And any Democratic candidate can beat any of their front runners because of the fallout of the Bush years. This is a new thing to me. Hasn't happened in my lifetime: a potential Realignment election going to the center left on every level of the Federal government.

    My feeling is that we can never underestimate the inanity of the American media and never over estimate the attention span of the American voter.

    We have be smart, work hard and spend a lot of money if we want to win.

    by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:00:51 PM PDT

•  Depends

  Giuliani - If I hadn't showered or shaved in a week, and was wearing white robes, was very well tanned, and spoke Arabic.

  Thompson - If I hadn't showered in a month.

  Mitt Romney or Huckabee .. in a full leatherboy outfit, with assless chaps.

  John McCain .. if I had many many piercings and a nose ring.

  Tancredo .. just to start a conversation with him in Spanish, just after running into the elevator, screaming, "La Migra!  La Migra!"

  Ron Paul -- With a tie-died "No Blood for Oil" t-shirt, holey blue jeans, sandals, 3 foot long hair, and John Denver glasses.

  Not because I like to fuck with anyone, just sayin'.

  by AndyS In Colorado on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 12:59:07 PM PDT

  •  Rudy will think you're a potential customer

    for Giulliani Partners.

    (Although Qatari sheiks probably shower more often than once a week).

    by Calouste on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:50:57 PM PDT

•  I'd say Huckabee

  Could talk music with him, and if had my acoustic guitar with me...play some too.

  Also could discuss the theological differences between modern protestantism, catholicism, calvinism, and orthodoxy...

  by marcvstraianvs on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:34:43 PM PDT

•  this must be the stupidest diary

  ever posted at kos. even the comments are stupid, including mine.

  by robertlewiws on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:35:12 PM PDT

•  simple -- Fred Thompson -- he's tall enough...

  to reach and open the emergency exit panel on the ceiling.

  by Bernie68 on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 01:38:05 PM PDT

•  Is the one in the lower left hand corner

  Tancredo, Hunter or the Devil?

  by immigradvocate on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 02:34:08 PM PDT

  •  That's Rudy's old goat

    Bernie Kerik

    You noticed!

    by Duke S on Wed Dec 05, 2007 at 02:36:49 PM PDT