None of the remaining candidates are 100% of what I was hoping for, to be sure.
Part of that, I think, is a generational talent gap. The best talent the GOP has right now is its young guns - Jindal, McDonnell, Rubio, etc. They all have the potential to be great, but they won’t come into their own until at least 2016, or maybe 2020 in a couple of cases. The other part of it is, we conservatives have been so hungry for a conservative alternative to Romney, I think too often we’ve looked before we leaped and have been bitterly disappointed when a particular candidate hasn’t turned out to be the next Reagan.
Still, for all that, I’m pretty upbeat. We don’t have any perfect candidates in the race, but we have competent ones. Beyond that, the country is seeing a conservative resurgence. That adds up to a far better hand than the GOP had in 2008. Obama can be defeated with the materials we have on hand, I absolutely believe it.
There are indications the neither Senator Rubio nor Governor Jindal are natural born citizens, as their parents were not citizens at the time of their birth. How do you deal with that?