Better qualified: Newt, Santorum, Johnson, and Huntsman.
More intelligent: To the above add Romney, Bachmann and Cain.
More conservative: all of the above except Rommey, Johnson, and Huntsman. Newt is close to a tie.
That leaves Santorum, Bachmann, and Cain as probably better choices to be President. Politically, the first two have flamed. That leaves Cain. Am I happy about 9-9-9? No, but a NRST won't pass the Congress anyway. Perry is sinking while Cain is ascendant and polls better against both Romney and Zero. Not a bad indicator at this point.
I completely agree with you analysis of the candidates.
I receive emails from the Sierra club because I attended a meeting opposing the coal terminal in my county in WA state. I now have a new opinion of the Sierra club, from those emails. Most of the members of the Sierra Club seem to be well-intentioned dupes that just aren’t that smart.
One of issues that was covered in the last email notice was mercury in tuna. They warned that coal burning power plants could be polluting your tunafish sandwich with mercury because the coal burning power plants were polluting lakes streams.