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That’s probably why the GOP always goes for a retread, no matter how dismal his prospects.

It’s true that name recognition is important. People associate it with a time when they were happy, unhappy, whatever. Oddly enough, most people were doing quite well under W., until the Dem-engineered collapse at the end, so the Bush name might not be that off-putting, despite the efforts of the press. That doesn’t mean I think he’d be good - I’m just addressing the name recognition issue.

Personally, I’d like to see Rubio, Walker or Jindal, but I don’t think they have much of a chance because they don’t have name recognition. So this is an important and interesting point.

One of the reasons they don’t have it, of course, is because most of the reporting on them is totally negative, whereas with people like Fauxcahontas, it has been completely positive, so I could see her going up against Hillary Clinton and winning. And this is true even though the Clinton name is very well known, shall we say.