You may be right about Putin..but I thought I read that at this time, he isn't planning on running again..but, I am a lot more wrong than you are.
BTW..Fox had the results of one of their polls today..that showed for the Republican candidate for POTUS in 2008...
McCain and Rudy are the only ones with double digit percentage of voters..
McCain first, Rudy second...but, what caught MY eye was that even Bill Frist had a higher percentage than George Allen..who had 4%, I believe...Newt beat him also.
Allen is having a hard Senate race...so, I guess that accounts for it...but, it doesn't look good.
Note: NONE of the top ones are very conservative.