2008: Fred Thompson
2012: Perry or Santorum
Ironically, the last candidate I got really excited about was Colin Powell. But of course that never went anywhere, and then he went downhill personally. Powell would have destroyed Billy Clinton though.
Powell would have been great, yes .. had he actually turned out to have been remotely conservative.
Not your fault. He lied about what he believed to get ahead.
Powell would’ve been an epic fiasco. The GOP may have promoted him, but he was a racist Socialist to the core. I remember being in Washington, DC just days before he made his announcement he wasn’t running (in 1995). I happened to be riding in a cab when the driver, who was Black, gave me an earful about Powell being a dangerous fraud (the cabbie was not a leftist). I thought the cabbie was being a bit paranoid, but everything he said about “Colon” was 100% dead on the money.