Rand - I do like his ideals. The best of your list.
Palin - No. Not now. Not never. Don’t see her as serious candidate.
Cruz - Doubtful eligibility.
Gowdy - To unknown outside of SC
Nugent - ????? really ?????
of course the establishment is almost as bad
Jeb Bush - no more please
I think the primaries will feature Christie (who I believe may be a stronger candidate than is given credit for), Paul, potentially Kaishich(sp), Jindal, Perry, and maybe Walker or Scott.
Honestly I would prefer someone from the governor ranks with executive experience and completed a full term.
Why stop there? Get rid of anything that doesn’t fit into your narrow view of what should be acceptable. Let’s just get rid of furniture stores that offer in-house financing, buy here pay here car lots, college football, NASCAR (o.k. maybe NASCAR for real), any movie not ‘The Passion of the Christ’, Pentecostal Churches ( speaking in tongues like them furriners), and on and on. A sad case all around and I hope justice is done in this case, but I will keep my freedom thank you very much. If I want to pawn my Rap music collection along with my Rob Zombie Movies Collection after playing Lolipop Chainsaw on the XBox and perusing the latest skin flick and checking MMA schedules on the internet, exactly what business is it of yours or anyone else?