[marron]

She fights. Make a list of shortcomings as long as your arm and in the end, she is on a very short list of people who were willing to fight. There are a number of politicians who think its their turn to be president, but only a small handful who took the fight to Obama when it mattered.

Thats Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, and maybe a couple of others... Ryan, Pence, Bolton, and then thats pretty much it.

The others are waiting to be selected as leader, but it doesn’t work that way. Leaders lead, fighters fight, and the wannabes wait for the phone to ring offering them the job.

[factmart]

he fights. Make a list of shortcomings as long as your arm and in the end, she is on a very short list of people who were willing to fight. There are a number of politicians who think its their turn to be president, but only a small handful who took the fight to Obama when it mattered. Thats Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, and maybe a couple of others... Ryan, Pence, Bolton, and then thats pretty much it. The others are waiting to be selected as leader, but it doesn’t work that way. Leaders lead, fighters fight, and the wannabes wait for the phone to ring offering them the job. GREAT POST, NEEDS REPEATING!!!

[arthurus]

In the Republican Party those you call the wannabes, the ones who expect it is their turn, tend to win the nomination. Reagan just did beat out the RINOs by putting GBI on the ticket then we got saddled with Bush I anyway and he gave us the Clintons. Then there was Gerald Ford, and Bobdole and John McCain. McCain and Dole were totally weird as politicians. With each of them, I wondered who he wanted to win.

I expect Mitt Romney will get the nomination this time unless a conservative candidate can overcome the pretty nearly overwhelming inertia of the Republican Party. The conservative contender has to have a presence like Reagan and RR's savvy for close quarters fighting and using the media. Christy and Palin are the only ones that seem to have that so far.