To: af_vet_rr
Not exactly my first and second choice either!
Unfortunately, the process is now such that any potential candidate must spend a couple of years building up money and support. Not sure if this is directly related to CFR or just the way things have evolved. I suppose it is still possible for a 'dark horse' candidate to come in and knock everyone's socks off but it would just about take a miracle for someone who has not started working on their candidacy to do that now.
11 posted on
01/23/2007 7:16:28 AM PST by
RebelBanker
(May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.)
To: RebelBanker
Not exactly my first and second choice either!
Unfortunately, the process is now such that any potential candidate must spend a couple of years building up money and support. Not sure if this is directly related to CFR or just the way things have evolved. I suppose it is still possible for a 'dark horse' candidate to come in and knock everyone's socks off but it would just about take a miracle for someone who has not started working on their candidacy to do that now.
Therein lies the problem - the people who would probably be true Conservative candidates and who would make great Conservative Presidents don't have the resources and powerbases that the Guilianis and McCains of the world have.
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