I think Romney is a real possibility. I want a competent, smart, ARTICULATE candidate and he has those qualities. The Dems and the MSM are already getting worried about this guy. I think he has the talent to beat a Hillary/Obama ticket. I think he could whack the Breck Girl easily.
Guiliani and McCain are out in my book. They have too much personal baggage. If the Iraq situation gets worse, McCain will be dead meat because he backs a troop surge. Guiliani apparently has some questionable business connections he's worried about. Hunter and the rest are too obscure; they won't be able to raise the cash. Gingrich says he won't run unless neither Guiliani nor McCain has emerged as the leader by the fall of 2007. I don't think he will run and the MSM has fatally wounded him.
Get Gingrich out of your mind, people. Please. He is the only candidate who is perhaps more reviled by the masses than missus clinton. And while you're at it, forget the drab and the ideologue. They are nonstarters.
Romney has the smarts, the articulateness, the charisma, the competence, the achievement... and let us not forget... the movie-star good looks... to trounce whomever the Ds put up.
Giuliani is a flawed candidate if we measure him by pre-9/11--and especially pre-clinton-- standards. Frankly, I think we must develop a more mature way of assessing the candidates. We are playing for the whole ball of wax, folks. Giuliani has a lot to offer this country, especially now.
What's black and white and read all over and is more self-destructive than pre-9/11 thinking?
Pre-clinton thinking, that's what....
Putting doctrinal purity ahead of making sure a defective and dangerous clinton never again controls this country is pre-clinton thinking.
We no longer have the luxury of time or circumstance to massage our sensibilities, to indulge our indignations.
We will not survive another clinton. (We may yet not survive the first one.)