[SamAdams76]

Cruz has no chance and neither does that old scowl from Massachusetts.

I like Ted Cruz but being photogenic is everything in modern politics and he looks like he is a genetic cross between John Belushi and Pat Buchanan.

If you don't look good on TV, you won't win Period. There are way too many shallow people who will vote against you. Smilin' Mitt might just do it again.

[SoConPubbie]

Cruz has no chance and neither does that old scowl from Massachusetts.

That's funny, that's exactly what the Party faithful were saying about Reagan in both 1976 and 1980. Look how that worked out.

Sorry, I'm not about who can win as my primary objective.

I'm about WHO SHOULD WIN, and that would be the most conservative, most intelligent, most principled candidate available.

There are currently three in that category, Cruz, Lee, and Palin.

While Walker is good on most things, he is an open-border failure.

[miss marmelstein]

Hmm...you’re hitting on something that worries me, too. He cannot change his looks (after all, Nixon wasn’t a beauty) but he can lower his speaking voice and avoid the adenoidal twang. That takes a really good voice teacher and I’m sure he has the money to find one. Margaret Thatcher’s voice was high and strident and she brought it way, way down over the years. Hillary ought to try it too but she’s too self-satisfied to even notice there is a problem.

[RBroadfoot]

Then neither Hillary! nor Fauxcahontas has a chance.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I like Ted Cruz but being photogenic is everything in modern politics and he looks like he is a genetic cross between John Belushi and Pat Buchanan.

This is true - but Cruz's bigger problem is that the banksters won't fund any candidate smart enough to make his own decisions.

[Finny]

... being photogenic is everything in modern politics ... and ... if you don't look good on TV, you won't win Period."

Then drop-dead-gorgeous American Babe Palin should be a shoo-in.

And she is a babe. She is disarmingly gorgeous. Can you imagine how distracting she could be, if she tried, in international negotiations with an egotistic macho guy like Putin?

I believe she would eat him for breakfast and he would enjoy it! That is, until the next day! {^)

She's as smart as she is beautiful; I've read her words and she speaks for me so often that I can't help but come to this conclusion!

Now if only she could have Meryl Streep's vocal cords (and chords!) as in "The Devil Wears Prada." SOUND as much as looks affect how people perceive a person. Ronald Reagan had reassuring, anchored tones.

I pray that the Almighty will bless Palin with a miracle of inspiration or insight in her speaking style and vocal tonality. They are her biggest obstacles, but they certainly can be overcome.

She's our next Reagan.

[Finny]

Smilin' Mitt might just do it again.

Without my vote. Again.

[Smokin' Joe]

If you don't look good on TV, you won't win Period.

Good helps, Presidential wins.

[Rastus]

Brock O’Bama is absolutely hideous. The media says he’s handsome, but that doesn’t make it so.