As is usually the case with your posts, I agree with every word. Kudos.
However, it absolutely scares the Be-jesus out of me to agree with Tricky Dickie on anything. :-)
Of the four lead ones, none thrill me. McCain and Giuliani are obvious non-starters. Romney would have to convince me he was serious about his evolution from a pro-choice RINO to a true blue conservative, which I seriously doubt he can pull off. I'm not sure Newt can win due to his MSM baggage, but I definitely want to see him in the primary process just to watch him intellectually abuse McCrazy in the debates.
Curious who you see as the possible "knight in shining armor" for the Republican wing of the Republican party: Barbour? Mark Sanford? Tim Pawlentey? Bronwback? Someone else I am not thinking of?
Regards -
OO
I like what I hear about Brownback, but I'm not sure what you mean by leader of the party. In the House and Senate, they have their own involuted rules of seniority and popularity. As candidate for president, I don't know.
Once you have a sitting president, he usually becomes the leader of the party, unless he is incompetent or you have some really powerful operator like Mike Mansfield. So that brings us back to questions of who can realistically get elected.
Barbour, Gen Tommy Franks and Pawlenty are interesting as are Gov Sanford, Gov Perdue and Gov Romney