Which means he's an excellent candidate for a platform of change from the status quo that seems to be resonating with so many voters.
Huckabee shows some social conservatism, but is generally just another big government liberal. More of the same.
Rudy? More big government interference in our lives, very little change.
McCain? More of the same.
Romney? Hard to really tell what to expect from Romney. He has leadership skills, but it's hard to tell where he will lead, but I suspect he is more conservative than he sold himself as in MA, and less conservative than he is selling himself now. However, I still expect more big government liberalism, maybe slightly less, but not significantly so.
Paul would bring change, but he's an example of how not all change is good. He takes some good ideas about smaller government and runs off to the loony bin with them.
Very few people are happy with the Bush administration. Liberals hate him despite his liberal social programs, and conservatives hate him because of them.
The only changes Obama offers people is ending the war, and more, bigger social programs. As someone once said, American's aren't opposed to the war, they are opposed to losing, and oppose a war that it doesn't appear we can win. Turning tail in Iraq isn't a winning national strategy.
Eight years ago we were sold on how Bush's compassionate conservatism which was supposed to represent Bush being a moderate, would bring the country together. Instead it has torn us apart even more, as much because of Bush's failure to lead as for his bad policies.
We need a true conservative that will also lead, and who won't try and play nice with a media that has no intention of playing nice with him.
As unpopular as Bush is, Congress is even more unpopular, and I suspect the media is even less popular than Congress.
People are sick of the way things are. They want change. They don't seem to really know what they want, but they know it isn't the way things are now.
The need someone who will lead them on a new path and will take on the establishment, and that establishment is the media and big government.
What’s with this constant oh they can’t survive until the next primary stuff? They can too. Any of them can survive. McCain hasn’t had any money to speak of for months now, and he has survived (unfortunately). Thompson, Romney, Huckabee, Guiliani, even Hunter, they can all survive until the Feb 5th primaries. I’m so sick of these can they survive, oh no they can’t stories. It’s all baloney. The candidates will continue until they don’t want to and pull out.