“I don’t get the infatuation with Daniels...”
Part of the vetting process is getting to know the candidates. Often when that happens we get to find out that our candidates are deeply flawed, even though they looked great at first.
For Romney, we find his Romneycare to be a nightmare...but in 2008, it wasn’t around long enough to really show its problem - and who else was left to run against Obama? Romney’s religion will also hurt him with the base...even if he had a perfect record and positions on issues.
Huckabee sounded great - a Republican Governor from the South...then you see he had this habit of releasing felons from jail early, and was completely OBLIVIOUS to the threat they posed, even when prosecutors begged him not to (this is something you expect to see in a flaming liberal). Not to mention, also, his support of the global warming bunch.
Sarah also seemed perfect - but should have (politely) cut herself loose from McCain after 2008 instead of running commercials in the PRIMARY supporting him. She has done other things that left our heads shaking (can’t really remember though, right now - but a lot of us here were getting tired of explaining what she means when she said so and so).
Daniels faults are explained in the article, he certainly looked like a successful Republican governor - the part of a unilateral surrender on social issues tells me he’s comfortable with the status quo. The surrender on collective bargaining was very, very, telling also and bodes terrible for a person seeking to be president.
Newt has said and done so many weird things that I don’t know where to begin with him.
Haley Barbour, a southern, conservative governor, winds up wanting to cut the military in half...meaning he has no idea that there is a whole big world out there beyond our shores, and like 1941, that world will come to us (and not in a nice way), if we’re not out there projecting our presence.
Those are the announced candidates that I’m most familiar with. Each of them has certainly looked great at the beginning, but each leaves your head shaking and you wondering if this selected candidate can be ‘educated’ enough before taking office. It shouldn’t be that hard to find a candidate that upholds the values on this site (or of the Tea Party), but almost always they walk off in a different direction...on some key issue (or usually, issues).
Interesting that in your brief listing of the shortcomings of each of the potential R candidates you can only come up with one shortcoming for Palin: that she paid back a political debt.
Maybe she was misguided in paying that debt back. Maybe she paid it back “too much”. I don’t know.
That’s still what she did: paid back a political debt.
Oh yeah. You do mention “and other things”.
WTF???
None of your other candidates get an “and other things”.
Are you angling for a job at NPR?
All Sarah’s Other Things Considered.
At least name them, twit.