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Unhappily, I do NOT see a candidate that can unite economic and social conservatives and the general run of Republicans.
What is required is an individual who can display solid executive experience and a successful record in whatever post or posts that he has held, as well as a personality that does not chase off the swing voters needed to actually win an election, and that seems to be in very short supply. The candidate should not have a voice that drones (a la John Kerry) or whines (a la Hillary Clinton) nor pisses one off (a la Al Gore). Petty details?? Maybe. Maybe not. The winning Candidate MUST have a solid record of support for conservative issues, and certainly more than cursory knowledge of history, geography and world affairs, military service if possible or a good reason for not having served; a cleaner than a hounds tooth record of non-corrupt personal income and a young boy/girl/goat free personal romantic history, including not using his wife/girlfriend as a heavy bag, or his dog/cat for a soccer ball.

The winning candidate should request that the party from which he seeks the nomination have a high quality private investigator conduct an inquiry equal to that of the "opposition research" that the Democrats will initiate.
And any minor, non-disqualifying event that could be embarrassing put out before the public, before the Democrats do it, "getting out in front" of the problem.
A disqualifying incident must do just that.Disqualify the candidate so as not to cause greater embarrassment to the party and waste time and funds as well as the personal effort of campaign/party workers.
The candidate must have sufficient organization in the states one would expect him to win, as well as a source for funding that is clean and transparent and NOT tied to any organization that is corrupt or has dubious ties to foreign elements, foreign nations, organized crime of corrupt labor unions.

There is very little time, and anyone lacking the listed characteristics will not dent the number of votes needed to win a primary. Wishing and hoping will just not do it.

I am of course, open to rational debate.