As much as people say they want a compromiser in the White House, they want no such thing.
As an example, the last two Presidential elections that the Democrats won was when the Republicans put forward a long time Senator.
Due to the very nature of legislating, there will always be issues of compromise that can be brought up when you have spent any significant amount of time there.
Dole and McCain were both very effective legislators and with that came the skill of compromising. Even Kerry got nailed on the “flip flop” issue on the Democrat side.
Obama didn’t have that long of a legislative record, so it was much harder to paint him as a compromiser as opposed to McCain.
This time, we cannot make the mistake of putting up a legislator to run against a sitting President. It must, absolutely must, be someone with experience as a Governor.
This sadly excludes some very exciting prospects such as Cain and Bachmann. I like both of them, Cain more by a bit, but neither of them can say “I made these tough decisions and let the buck stop with me for the result”.
This narrows the field considerably.
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Agreed.