IMHO a real conservative who can articulate the position of a conservative in such a way so as to concretely show a benefit to the "traditional" democrat voter. A conservative who talks the talk and walks the walk in all areas of life. Also someone who is unafraid of tackling the real threat to our way of life: Illegal Immigration. I promise you that there are millions of anxious liberals who greatly fear this very thing and are in a near panic mode AND who know that in the privacy of the voting booth lies potential salvation. But they won't vote that way if the GOP candidate offers nothing materially different from their own party. This is the reason that Sean Hannity said that Tom Tancredo could win the White House. Although I think Tancredo has a startling proclivity to alienate core constituents of the GOP like Cubans. You don't win many hispanic votes when you call Miami a third world country...no matter how true it might be! Still, not all legitimate hispanic citizens will be favorable to an open border policy when they see the negative impact on their own lives. This is already becoming apparent in the wages earned by folks in construction. A decade ago a carpenter could demand $14 an hour. Today (largely because of illegal immigrants) the wage is more like $7 per hour. You can't live on $7 an hour, but you could on $14. Most illegal imigrants aren't in the fields a migrant workers. They're in the skyscrapers doing construction!
>a real conservative who can articulate the position of a conservative in such a way so as to concretely show a benefit to the "traditional" democrat voter.
I hear you dude, but that guy just lost to nobody in Pa. Rick Santorum.
I've written off the blue states.
It wasn't really "anyone but Bush," it was anyone but the GOP, and thats what it has become there, and the traditional democrat knows less than my cat.