It won't be Cheney and he couldn't win if it were. Newt is too much a policy guy, he'd be a great VP. Condi Rice could win, but she's not expressing any ambition, plus she's got time. Romney is pretty much unknown.
Neither the RNC nor DNC cultivate a deep bench or have developmental plans to nurture candidates who can win elections years in the future, instead they just let big money and politics sort it out. Planning for political succession is no different than succession planning in a business. Failure to do it puts the enterprise at risk of extinction.
If the R nominee turns out to be McCain or Guiliani, it may precipitate the rise of a Conservative Party. WAnd that would be a good thing!
"couldn't win?"
says who? you? LOL
the only way one "can't win" is to "not run!" hellooooooo
again, if you have a better candidate, name 'em!
This is a reasonable statement for Mitt Romney now, but I note that Romney is better known nationally than George W. Bush was two years before the 2000 election.
Romney's supporters don't have any concern about current name recognition because of what they believe will happen when he makes the first public appearances on the Primary campaign trail in head-to-head comparisons with other Republican candidates.
I know now exactly why they think this after viewing many videos for the first time this past week of Mitt Romney in various settings. Romney is an extremely impressive communicator in video media.