[The Blitherer]

Bill Frist looks like a doctor telling his patient that she has cancer and Denny Hastert just looks like he wants directions to the local pub.

lol! Brilliant line!

[AZLiberty]

The best options are Newt and Rush. If an actor can be President, why not a radio commentator?

[Teflonic]

I think Newt Gingrich is an amazing speaker, too bad about those ethics violations which are ammunition for opponents.

[Uncledave]

Of all the likely contenders, Rudy is the most effective communicator.

[vetsvette]

A great communicator would be nice, but I'd settle for an authentic conservative.

Actually, with Newt we could have both -- but, he's far too principled to make it through the primary seine.

[garv]

This is the factor that intrigues me about Romney, but I'm not sold on him otherwise.

[ichabod1]

Alan Keyes for President!

[Killborn]

If s/he can get over the wailing of the DSM, lower education brainwashers, socialist hacks pretending to be scientists/scholars, empty headed celebrities, and the traitor Demoncr@ps, then the next elections will be pure pwnage.

[lormand]

The news media has never been as shrill and coordinated in my memory.

It is futile to only look at a messenger when the entire traditional news establishment is a tool of one of the political parties.

It is the giant elephant in the living room that nobody is noticing.

[ryan71]

It's very Frustrating out of 300 million Americans we don't have a collection of Conservative minded candidates who are great leaders.

If we do, I never hear about them.

[MaineVoter2002]

http://www.newt.org/multimedia/default.asp?mi=261

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I'd settle for a passable communicator.

[StoneGiant]

Republicans need more than just a communicator.
They need a spine.

[Greystoke]

I couldn't agree more with this article, I have been saying the same thing for years. Bush simply has zero charisma, making him an easy target that the MSM has had a hay day with.
Personally, I think we should draft Fred Thompson, who comes across as someone who is authoritative and speaks very well.

[Dixie Yooper]

Until a few months ago I thought this person might be George Allen. Then I got to see him debate the heckler. Scratch George off the list.

[GoLightly]

Sounds a lot like the Donks when they were out in the cold, "all we need to do is get our message out".

We need more than a good communicator folks. We need to get back to doing the things worth talking about, without doing the things we don't wanna talk about.

[dirtboy]

What the GOP needs is a coherent, principled message. Reagan was a great communicator because he believed in and acted upon his message.

Conversely, Clinton was a good communicator, but his only core value was his own power, and eventually people caught on that he was just spewing nonsense and the Dems declined as a result.

Likewise, the GOP wasted their power as a complete majority over their pursuit of the other white meat. It's hard for people to take you seriously when you say you are for limited government but massively increase spending and raise earmarks to an art form.

And it's even harder to be taken seriously when you re-select Trent Lott for a leadership position after getting spanked into the minority.

[Sloth]

Closely connected with need for a communicator is the failure, in recent times, to understand what leadership even IS in the politcal realm. Instead of trying to 'appeal' to moderates / centrists / independents, we ought to be converting them. State conservative principles over and over again in strong, simple terms. Make people see that they are RIGHT, not that they are merely closer to whatever they already want or think.

[Sam Cree]

The Republicans need a great communticator, but they also need a message to communicate. They need some guiding principles.

[petitfour]

What do Republicans stand for these days? Is there a consensus amongst party members? I don't see it. All I see is dissension.