Franks/Bush
YOu missed MIKE PENCE! The only candidate who can unite the Reagan wing!
Allen/Rice
Allen/Cheney.
Also Mitt Romney should probably be on the list.
My dream ticket: Tancredo/Rice
These are just the top 6 of the possible contenders out there....
you have been told, but you forgot Pence, Romney, Santorum, Rick Perry, Tancredo, and maybe Pataki
Allen is far more "presidential" than your typical U.S. Senator, and at this stage he appears to have all the right stuff -- he's from the South, he's relatively young, wears cowboy boots, and comes across as very direct and forceful as a leader.
Show me for whom Melham and Rove are going to work and I'll tell you who the front runners will be.
Next look at the pollsters for each candidate, then the advertising agencies, then the finance chairmen, then the consultant/advisers in each issue area , then the spokesperson, advance team, candidate's wife.....
Look at the people and organizations that are endorsing the candidates.
Then finally look at the candidate to see if he has the physical stamina and mental discipline to let his organization do its job instead of shooting in all directions like a loose cannon.
Unfortunately some people would bet on a candidate who's running the whole show himself or letting his little sister run show it. Those candidates are called "vanity candidates" and there will be a bunch of them in 2008. They're just trying to sell books, compile mailing lists and get cheap publicity.
Brown/Rice
Sorry, I haven't had dinner yet.
Good analysis except the Allen beating Clinton comes down to Ohio and Florida.
For all of Dean's bluster, they are are not going to compete anywhere else in the Midwest or South except for maybe MO or ARK.
Hill has a huge man problem, think we're going to see her in a duck blind? (yeah and watch the NEA and Emily's List faint).
Sure the MSM is going to go gaga over the first woman President and a Clinton to boot but it won't be until she actually declares that her true negatives will show up.
Allen, btw, has a history of coming from behind and cleaning clock when it counts.
He has a hand-picked by Clinton female candidate's scalp hanging on his belt from his last Senate race, he's not afraid of running against a woman.
If you look at the list of perceived candidates, Allen is the only one who has won a bruising campaign in a Red swing state.
Abortion is over politicized. Abortion should not be a defining issue or a litmus test for an elected or appointed position. The abortion issue detracts from immediate and far-reaching issues that affect all citizens more equally and more profoundly. Medical Ethics should define what is the MORAL difference between infanticide and partial birth abortion on demand (aka "rights".) Certainly, politicians and political appointees are neither astute nor wise enough, nor trustworthy in deciding matters of ethics and morals, and where the value of LIFE begins and ends.
Abortion is a pander/polarizing issue. Issues should focus on the better interests of all citizens - security and economy, and upholding our REPUBLIC's constitution. Oh, we face a glaring issue which is protecting America from the ACLU's aggressive subversive activism.
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