DomKen
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I'm not sure where DomKen figures he is qualified to announce "the best of the bunch" for Republican contenders anyway.
Ok then. Who is really electable and someone you honestly think would be even an adequate POTUS?
Who would have called a junior Senator from Illinios, with zero executive experience, qualified or electable three years ago, Ken? I pay attention to this stuff, and was thinking maybe he could be veep. If nothing else, President Obama has significantly lowered the bar for who can be considered a legitimate contender.
The potential candidates I like weren't even on your list. Not the ones you have heard of but dismissed or didn't consider including, and how would you list the ones you might never have heard of at all? The right individual will fit the circumstances, and those have not emerged yet, either.
And even if I knew exactly who it was going to be, or could dish the full list of the contenders for the primary, why would I put them in your crosshairs?
I listed the ones that have either expressed an intention to run or have done things pretty clearly meant to set up a primary run. I'm assuming that potential GOP candidates learned the lesson of Fred Thompson's campaign and won't try waiting till the last minute again. In particular the major GOP fund raisers are picking candidates from the field I listed right now. If someone waits 6 months to start getting a campaign together he will be hopelessly behind in the money game.
I honestly wish there was a more electable candidate from the GOP but even the guys who might see a draft campaign get started for are pretty weak or have terrible baggage. Consider Jeb Bush, appeals to the fiscal conservatives based on his record in florida, the hispanic connection would serve to broaden the party, could energize both the evangelicals and the business conservatives based on his family ties but his connection to GWB would be like an anchor around his neck in a general election campaign. He might be able to make a run in 2016 but 2012 seems impossible and by all accounts he has read the tea leaves the same way I do.
If Jindal and Pawlenty both run I strongly doubt any other GOP governors will run. None of them have even as much name recognition as Romney, Huckabee, Jindal or Pawlenty and 4 current and former governors is a lot.
GOP senators? Orrin Hatch has the national prominence and likely would be a good POTUS but he has shown no signs of ambitions of that sort and has the mormon problem. There's 3 or 4 senators from the right fringe that I expected to make a run but with Santorum making a run I doubt any of them will be able to get much traction. But who knows? Inhofe or one of those guys might make a run but I couldn't imagine them doing anything in a national campaign.
GOP Congressmen? Boehner and Wilson are the most well known of the lot and I can't see either one running or getting the nomination if they run.
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