If it were just me flying by myself, I'd probably look for a Grumman AA1/A, B, or C.  Inexpensive to operate, and a few knots faster than similarly powered trainers.  They are a blast to fly, also and have nice handling characteristics. 

I agree with what you said, but the question was specific to Grumman flying.  I've heard that it can get away from you as it's not a fly by feel airplane.  Or maybe I have been misinformed???

Tigers, Cheetahs, and Travelers are docile airplanes although they do have better control response, and are lighter on the controls.  Tigers and Cheetahs are pretty slick for a fixed gear plane, so will float if you come in hot.  If you don't display good speed control, and try to force it down onto the runway you can get into pilot induce oscillation.  The cure to that is to just hold it off if you have enough runway, or just go around. 

The two seat AA1 (original slick wing) demand speed control also, and you don't want to get behind the power curve on these low, and slow as they will break pretty quickly, without too much warning.  The later AA1A, AA1B, and AA1C have a different wing but still require discpline in speed control, but give you a bit more margin.  They don't "get away from you" unless you either don't have training in them or just not flying them properly, but they are not any more dangerous than other planes if you fly them like they should be flown, and learning that is not difficult.

CNBC almost made some of the Republican candidates seem "Presidential" which is a hard thing to do.