[SeekAndFind]

PhD degrees award in quantitative subjects, US vs Asia

[MNJohnnie]

Herman Cain.

[Spok]

With the MSM ready to provide hundreds of millions of dollars worth of “in kind” contributions to Obama in the form of lies and vicious, unfounded personal attacks on whoever dares to challenge him, it’s a daunting prospect for a challenger, at best.

[subterfuge]

No one wants the job for the pubs because you get eviscerated, harrassed and lied about by the media. That is why it’s best to wait until almost the last possible moment to announce.

[subterfuge]

No one wants the job for the pubs because you get eviscerated, harassed and lied about by the media. That is why it's best to wait until almost the last possible moment to announce.

[ScottinVA]

But the Republicans despair of finding the man or woman who can define an alternative to a weak and waffling President Barack Obama.

Yes, it's frustrating, but certainly understandable. There are many good people out there, but they're taking a pass.. they simply don't want to lay themselves open for a vicious, hostile media that will relentlessly attack not only them, but their families on a 24-7 basis. They know they'll have to contend with the headwinds of not only an enemy propaganda cabal, but a massive financing disadvantage.

Plus.. who in their right mind would even WANT to preside over this dysfunctional mess?

[Windflier]

"There are a couple of generic governor types like Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota or Mitch Daniels of Indiana, and a long list of has-beens and never was's. But the Republicans despair of finding the man or woman who can define an alternative to a weak and waffling President Barack Obama."

The left is going to write our epitaph in a thousand different ways, right up until November 2012. Chuck this one (and all the rest) in file 13.

[MeganC]

As is expected, the GOP will find a stimulating and exciting candidate like John McCain or Bob Dole to run against a charismatic liberal like 0bama. God forbid they run some old school bore like Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann.

[bmwcyle]

If we just lost a few RINOs who think they can be President.

[NoLibZone]

BS!

We can easily agree on a candidate.

When Reagan rises from the dead, we are solid.

[jimfree]

Spengler can't see farther than 20 feet in front of his face. Does anybody remember the expression "the Seven Dwarfs" being applied in politics? It was a media response to the first or second debate among Democrat candidates for president in 1992.

[InterceptPoint]

Who was enthused about Nixon or Ford or Bush 1 or Dole or Bush 2?

Goldwater Yes
Reagan Yes.

That’s about it. This the norm for the pansy GOP.

[Persevero]

I think we’ve actually found several candidates and are in the process of sorting them out.

[Wiser now]

Why do we have to be settled on a candidate when the first primaries are still nearly a year away?

[Billthedrill]

I don't know how seriously to take this one. Spengler's case is that "the Americans have become the wrong sort of people," lacking entrepreneurs who must be imported via immigration; that the bright go-getters of the 80's have become the "cramped and fearful" members of the Tea Party. It is an cliche-ridden impression unlikely to have been formed from direct experience; rather it is an impression fostered by those media who have settled on a narrative that will not permit credibility for any Republican candidate, status for small entrepreneurs unconnected with unionized firms, validity for those outside designated victim classes. In their view there is no attractive Republican candidate because by definition there cannot be.

It is hardly surprising that economic times such as these tend to discourage small-scale startups - one does, after all, need surplus cash for venture capital. That is not the result of any profound demographic or cultural change. Let us be honest about this: conservative males, especially white conservative males, have not become soft and unproductive; the projected view of such individuals within the popular media has become openly hostile and malign for ideological reasons, and for those same reasons black conservative males are relegated to the status of non-person. We do not need to import entrepreneurs, our own bloodlines having grown thin and anemic, we need to renew the economic conditions under which our own perfectly successful entrepreneurs may once again flourish. It is not an immigration issue, and it does not reflect in the availability of Presidential candidates, but rather in the perception of Presidential candidates by such outside observers as Spengler.

Naturally I could be mistaken, but there is a very simple test that will reveal it if so: I'd ask him if he thinks Sarah Palin is stupid, and if so, why. If the answer is "because other people I read are saying so" then we have a fairly definitive answer. Intelligent female conservatives are non-persons too. They do not exist, they cannot exist, they must not be allowed to exist. It is repeated often enough that it is no wonder outside observers tend to believe it.

[newzjunkey]

There are several prospective contenders who could emulate Ronald Reagan with a fair degree of credibility - Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum all come to mind. We're doomed.

[ex-snook]

Q. Who will be the candidate?

A. The one who can raise the most money.

[9YearLurker]

For those who’ve paid attention, Gov. Palin has endorsed main street entrepreneurs over corrupt corporate interests from the very beginning.