Well, I’d have to check Uncle Joe’s record more closely, but since right now I’m only “pushing” DeMint, Bachmann and Cain.
Old Joe might end up in my trash bin along with Pawlenty, Newt, Rudy, Johnson, Huntsman, Pataki, Trump, Daniels, Barbour, Paul, Mitt, Huck, Gregg, Christie, Santorum, Perry, Jeb, and Thune.
I’m kind of scared that I have the same three favorites as you..... :p
Heeheehee
What about Pence or Bolton?
“Old Joe might end up in my trash bin along with Pawlenty, Newt, Rudy, Johnson, Huntsman, Pataki, Trump, Daniels, Barbour, Paul, Mitt, Huck, Gregg, Christie, Santorum, Perry, Jeb, and Thune.”
I have to agree that I agree with most of your trash bin, and it really shows how tough it is to find a ‘normal’ conservative. It gets me jealous of the Dems - they can run 5 people and there’s virtually no difference between them policy-wise. I mean, does anyone really think Hillary would have been noticeably different from Obama.
As to your list above, here’s my take:
Pawlenty: Yawn, it’s too late to try to start getting noticed
Newt: Too new-paradigm - hung out with Pelosi, can never trust
Rudy: Too much baggage, like an odd ‘roommate’; gun-grabber
Johnson: Unknown
Huntsman: More unknown
Pataki: Too liberal on just about everything
Trump: Too business - like Bush-43 would not understand Democrat hatred or tactics
Daniels: Anything goes socially, essentially sells off highway to balance budget
Barbour: Nice guy for haircut, can’t be serious with that name
Paul: Wants US to become another Albania (i.e., go it alone in the world)
Mitt: Obamacare and too yesterday
Huck: Released felons from jail so they can go on a killing spree; greenie too
Gregg: Flirted with Obama admin, when the Senate was in the balance
Christie: Too independent to trust on any new issue, and a lot of old issues
Santorum: Sounds like a place with people in straight jackets
Perry: Wanted little girls injected with drug so they could engage in wild sex
Jeb: Wrong last name, soft on immigration
Thune: Weak name, but probably good overall
Warren G. Harding defeated the governor of his home state - Ohio - for the presidency back in 1920. That was the last - the only - time a senator ever won the presidency running against a governor. Worse, no senator has ever defeated a sitting president. It's true that Abraham Lincoln was only a former congressman when he won in 1860, if you want go back that far - and don't mind that as a precedent, his election was only by a plurality in a 3-way race. Oh yes, and Herbert Hoover was Secretary of Commerce - and a famous private enterprise executive and philanthropist (whom FDR favored for the presidency).So it is, IMHO, silly to nominate a senator. Or Herman Cain, who is after all famous primarily for being a black man who is a successful executive of a pizza chain. Too thin, IMHO.