who will be the 'major republican' speaker at the dem convention?

[RodPresident]

Richard Lugar would be a good option.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Seeing the Governator endorse Obama would be far too depressing.

Not saying it will happen... just making it a possibility because he was another pretty left Republican for these days.

So a right-winger who is pro-choice, admits that humans caused climate change, and whose wife finally convinces him to become in favor of gay marriage is now a "pretty left Republican"? That's pretty sad.

[pepper11]

If you guys want to stay awake, I would hope against Huntsman. It's probably Crist though.

[Niemeyerite]

There are many interesting republicans who could speak in the DNC, specially Dick Lugar, Huntsman and Snowe, but I'd love this:

Crist changes his ID to Democrat, gives a long speech about how his party is too extreme, and at the end announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 2014.

[Mr. Morden]

I think you guys are badly misunderstanding Huntsman if you think he's going to rescind his endorsement of Romney, and then endorse Obama and speak at the DNC.  What has given you the idea that he is about to do such a thing?  The fact that he thinks climate change is real?

[You kip if you want to...]

Huntsman, but he's endorsed Mitt. Or Crist.

[Stranger in a strange land]

Seeing the Governator endorse Obama would be far too depressing.

Schwarzenegger left office with sub-20 approval ratings and under a cloud of scandal, so I sure hope it's not him, especially since Middle America still thinks of the Democrats as the party of adultery because of the Clinton/Lewinsky Scandal.

[The Mikado]

Crist is the obvious option.  He's been lying to himself about who he his, living in denial and using cover that no one believes.  It's time for him to stand up proudly and come out of the closet as a Democrat at last.

[Donerail]

Crist is the obvious option.  He's been lying to himself about who he his, living in denial and using cover that no one believes.  It's time for him to stand up proudly and come out of the closet as a Democrat at last.

An ad from a local law firm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ1wjEZ5yFg

[Tricky Dickie]

My money's on Crist.

[Indy Texas]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/former-gop-sen-lincoln-chafee-attend-dem-convention-174921573.html

Lincoln Chafee is apparently attending, though it doesn't say if he'll speak or not. Hopefully this isn't the major Republican speaker - an unpopular governor who left the party two years ago.

[PittsburghSean]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/former-gop-sen-lincoln-chafee-attend-dem-convention-174921573.html

Lincoln Chafee is apparently attending, though it doesn't say if he'll speak or not. Hopefully this isn't the major Republican speaker - an unpopular governor who left the party two years ago.

Chafee is an Independent these days... then again, so is Crist. So if we play that game, then both wouldn't be that Republican we are looking at.

[Nichlemn]

Romney. It would cement him as the greatest flip-flopper of all time.

[Talleyrand]

Romney. It would cement him as the greatest flip-flopper of all time.

Lol. I think it'll probably just be some Republican who became an independent years ago (i.e. Chaffee or Crist) or some disgruntled former GOP congressman who's out of office.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I think you guys are badly misunderstanding Huntsman if you think he's going to rescind his endorsement of Romney, and then endorse Obama and speak at the DNC.  What has given you the idea that he is about to do such a thing?  The fact that he thinks climate change is real?

[© tweed]

I think you guys are badly misunderstanding Huntsman politics if you think he's going to rescind his endorsement of Romney, and then endorse Obama and speak at the DNC.  What has given you the idea that he is about to do such a thing?  The fact that he thinks climate change is real?

[pbrower2a]

Olympia Snowe? Richard Lugar? Both have been effectively purged from the Senate by the Tea party cult. Neither has anything to lose but can take pot-shots at the right-wing extremists who have taken over the GOP. Both used to get lots of Democratic votes and won because they did.

Senator Linda Murkowski is probably disqualified because she ran as an independent.

It could be someone who knows Mitt Romney better than we do. Jon Huntsman might be having some second thoughts about whether Mitt Romney deserves his endorsement, perhaps after some erratic statements on foreign policy. If anyone knows both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney it is Jon Huntsman.

President Obama would love to poach some conservative votes. More significantly he would like some more Democrats in the House... but to pick any up in the South he would have to accept some influential conservative Democrats who can't be trusted to vote as a rubberstamp.  A conservative Democrat can vote against President Obama on guns, taxes, or gays... if they get to vote as their districts want them to vote on such things as farm policy or public works. A Tea Party pol can be trusted to vote exactly as Karl Norquist or Grover Rogue dictates. If it is a question of whether my district gets a freeway segment to supplant the local Blood Alley, I would prefer that such be up to Congress and not to some Party Boss. 



 

[Talleyrand]

Senator Linda Murkowski is probably disqualified because she ran as an independent.
 

*Lisa, not Linda.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

My money's on Crist.

Crist is no longer member of the Republican Party, ftr.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Will there be such a person?  Morden is right on Huntsman. Lugar has critized Obama too much. Hagel is too disenchanted with politics.  Too soon after the primary for Shays.  Crist and Chaffee aren't Republicans anymore.  Everything Arnold said in his 2004 convention speech about why he is a Republican still applies.  Murkowski I don't think has any problems with Romney even though she does with much of the rest of the party. Snowe or Voinovich? Somehow it's hard for me to see them up there either. Maybe Christine Todd Whitman - she already hinted she might not stick with the Republicans when she tried to make that American Elect thing happen.

[Niemeyerite]

I believe it'll be Richard Lugar now.

[stegosaurus]

I wonder if it will be Chris Shays, he's bitter about the primary and the direction of the GOP in general. Not that Shays is a "major" Republican by any stretch of the imagination, but its as close as the Democrats are going to get in such a polarized climate.