[FastCoyote]

"I predict the nomination will fall to either Romney or Allen, the nominee being the personage the base will be the least uncomfortable with "

and skip the Romney part, he will freak some out for the medical insurance plan. Allen is way behind McInsane in the polls, but I see McCaine crashing and burning in a big way. Allen is about the only comfortable show out there.

[JasonC]

Comfortable to freepers maybe, nobody else in the country has any idea who he is. Romney is a better TV presence by most accounts. McCain is the front-runner. If he blows up, which is perfectly possible and perhaps even likely once he reaches the southern primaries, any of the others has a shot. The fastest way to stop McCain is for someone else to beat him in New Hampshire. Right now, I don't see that happening.