He has a good record in Wisconsin, which is a key state. Also, his promise to pardon the imprisoned border patrol agents is a good idea.
We’ve fallen pretty far, pretty fast in terms of our evaluation of candidates. Now it is viewed as legitimate to ask how good they will do on camera as if the acting component of the Presidency is the critical component of it. I think it’s a mischaracterization of Reagan; the liberals couldn’t explain him so they made up this idea of “the great communicator” as his sole real strength to explain away the success of his ideas and his consistency.
Guess I’m saying that in a world rightside up we’d be talking about Tommy Thompson a lot more.