Opinion

GOP’s pitiful pool can still beat Bam

THE ISSUE: Whether the GOP has any strong contenders for the 2012 presidential election.

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I disagree with Rich Lowry on the potential field of GOP candidates (“Attack of the Also-Rans,” PostOpinion, May 24).

I’m a big fan of Mitt Romney and am glad he appears to be running. Michelle Bachmann is an interesting option as well, should she take the leap.

Further, I’m quite happy to see that the race is unlikely to include the candidates Lowry seems to pine for — losers like Mitch Daniels, Mike Huckabee and Jon Huntsman.

While Romney doesn’t seem to be a media darling, he is my choice all the way.

Aaron Goldman

Manhattan

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Can you imagine the GOP advantage in the 2012 election should its nominee start off with New York and/or New Jersey support?

Why not Rep. Peter King or NJ Gov. Chris Christie?

Jack Maggi

Manhattan

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With respect to GOP leaders and for all my fellow voters: Christie is doing a great job here in New Jersey.

Let’s let him do all he can, and, in 2016, I promise we’ll share him with the rest of the country.

Tom McGrath

Bloomfield, NJ

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I don’t know how Lowry could forget the Democrats’ bleak prospects for the presidency during the political season of 1991 to early 1992.

The incumbent Republican president had just led the nation in a victorious war.

George Bush was seen as so formidable that Democratic heavyweights like Mario Cuomo, George Mitchell and Sam Nunn said “no thanks” to the party’s desperate calls to lead.

Hence, the remaining candidates were seen as pariahs. Yet, one of the six was Bill Clinton, whose unheralded candidacy led Democrats into power.

Gary Schwartz

Fort Lee, NJ

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It’s interesting how the leftist media are saying that all the Republicans who are dropping out of the race were the best the GOP had to offer and that all who remain have no chance.

It’s still early enough for others to enter the race. And any Republican candidate can beat Obama because he is destroying America and has a disastrous foreign policy.

Just listen to the words of every patriotic Republican who is running and compare them to Obama’s anti-American, anti-Israeli vision.

JR Cummings

Manhattan

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Lowry’s piece on Republican nominee contenders seems to miss a few.

Did he deliberately skip Sarah Palin and think we wouldn’t notice? To not mention her at all is a real slight.

Lowry should shake up the box a little — it’s what America was founded upon.

Steven Wolosker

Manhattan