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No matter how "right" someones positions are, they have to have enough charisma to pull centrist voters, because neither the left nor the right has enough adherents to elect a president without the center.

Who has charisma?
J.C. Watts is like Jack Kemp, smart for a football player, but not really of presidential caliber.
Rudy Giulianni is probably the best natural leader in the pack, if he can get the Religious Right on Board.
Condi Rice is my choice. The only ugliness in sight is the Presidential Comission investigating 9/11 which seems to be trying to pin the blame on her as National Security Adviser. I think it is bogus, but it may poison her immage.

In 2016 I think we will have a winner in a Condi Rice / George P. Bush ticket, but there may be 8 years in the outer darkness first.

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I don't know if I could hold my nose long enough to vote for Rudy in 2008. Sure, I like Condi (and, for those who've asked, Dr. Rice stated that Roe V. Wade should be a states' right issue rather than a federal issue.) but I don't think that she has the executive experience that she would need for the position.

I'd like to see her run for a governor's position (like, California after Slashin' Schwartzenegger) before she went after a higher office.

Also, after reading about Bill Owens, that is someone I could pull the lever for.(well, him and my senatoral hero, Santorum!) Bush, I'd have to think about (especially with the possibility of him being pro-illegals.)