[Sudetenland]

Those three are the cream of the current crop of hopefuls/possibles. I think Cain is going nowhere, but his presence in the race can only accrue to the benefit of keeping conservative issues in the spotlight.

I just get the feeling that Palin will not run. She's having too much fun tweaking the noses of the left and the Republican establishment and she is doing good things for conservative issues. I also believe her to have been too severely damaged from the PDS assault against her. Her time may come, but not yet, I think.

Perry is the best bet. He's tough, conservative, saavy, still has the common touch--something Romney lacks a hint of. He still has a long way to go and considerable vetting, but so far, he's the best. Immigration is his Achilles heel, but as long as he is emphatic about locking down the border, he will be okay on that. Just stopping the flow would do wonders.

[jocon307]

“Perry...still has the common touch—something Romney lacks a hint of.”

It could hardly be different. Rick Perry’s father was a cotton farmer, Mitt Romney’s father was the Governor of Michigan (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

As for what some have said that Perry “out cowboys” Bush, again, Bush’s family is truly one of the American elite for generations.

Here, I looked them up on Wikepedia, because I knew I didn’t know how many of them you could count “The Bush family is a prominent American family. [A]cross three generations the family includes two U.S. Senators, one Supreme Court Justice, two Governors, one Vice President and two Presidents. George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush have been married for 66 years, holding the record for the longest-married presidential couple. Peter Schweizer, author of a biography of the family, has described the Bushes as “the most successful political dynasty in American history.”

I left in that part about George & Barbara, even though it is OT because I thought it was sweet.

Now there are other candidates who have come from a less than wealthy backround, at this time all of the others except Romney.

So, that’s fine. We’ve had “the best and the brightest” almost scuttle the ship of state here, maybe it is time to give another type of person a chance.