Everything But The Weed

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The <a href=”http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/”>2012 Election</a> is already starting to heat up despite being nearly two full years from November 2012. Although no <a href=”http://ezinearticles.com/?Likely-2012-Republican-Presidential-Candidates&id=4972548″>2012 Republican Presidential Candidates</a> have officially entered the race there are four GOP politicians who have formed a sort of “front-runners” group and most pundits think the eventual Republican nominee will be from this group.

What follows is a very short overview of each of the four Republican politicians who are in the front-runners group. Their names are Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Newt Gingrich. One of these four is likely to be facing off against President Obama in November of 2012.

<a href=”http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/tag/sarah-palin/”>Sarah Palin</a> is the certainly the most well known of the most likely GOP candidates because she was John McCain’s running mate in 2008 and because Palin has been in the news consistently since then despite quitting her job as Alaska’s Governor only half way through her term so she could make more money by appearing on Fox News, selling speech appearances, Facebooking, and selling books. While Palin is well known she is not particularly well liked outside of the Tea Party base.

Mitt Romney is probably the strongest possible Republican candidate in a head to head match-up against the President. Luckily for Obama, Romney’s reputation as a “RINO” and a flip flopper (he used to be pro choice) will probably doom his candidacy in the Republican primaries. He is simply too moderate for the modern Republican Party. His “RomneyCare” health care plan as Governor of Massachusetts will be the top topic of his Republican opponents.

Mike Huckabee came in second to John McCain in the ’08 GOP primaries and if recent Republican history is a good indicator that should make him the favorite in 2012. His history as a “tax and spend” Governor in Arkansas could doom him in the GOP primaries. If he does manage to make it to the general election then his extremely conservative views on social issues will likely be his undoing.

Newt Gingrich completes this list. Although I find it very to believe, Gingrich does quite well in GOP primary polling. Too bad for Gingrich he does horribly when up against Obama head to head. This makes sense because Gingrich was an incredibly unpopular politician in the 1990s and many American voters still remember that he was a terrible disaster the last time he was given any sort of power.