Unlike campaign past...even as lately as Bush's 2000 election..perhaps it was more important that the candidates mount a campaign themselves...
BUT, I think now...and with what talk radio and the internet did to sway the South Dakota election in 2004, I think it is in OUR best interests to start weeding out potential candidates...
and when we see someone we like...WE can get a grassroots campaign going in a matter of weeks...not months like before.
At this point...we are probably more at the stage of knowing who we DON'T WANT...and can have a grassroots effort to get America to look in different directions than the MSM is trying to get them to look...
It is already only 2 1/2 years until next POTUS election..and, given that there is no VP waiting to pick up the mantle...we can't wait...it must start now.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17960589%255E31477,00.html
US neglects region for Iraq: McCain
Geoff Elliott, Washington correspondent
January 28, 2006
GEORGE Bush is neglecting the Asia-Pacific region as his administration is drawn into the deteriorating war in Iraq, says the senior Republican senator tipped to become the next president of the US.
John McCain, who has become one of the hottest tips for the presidential ticket in 2008, said the US had dropped the ball in the region, citing recent decisions by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to cancel visits to Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
His comments support anxiety within Australia's foreign policy circles and throughout the Pacific that the US is ignoring the region.
Australia is still waiting for a new US ambassador, almost a year after Tom Schieffer was appointed ambassador to Japan.
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Unity is key among the Conservatives.