All of the GOP contenders seem to be soaking wet in one way or another. Whitman is a solid businessperson, but cripes, so is Herb Kohl, and just look at that guy’s politics. It takes more.
Poizner seems “least RINO-ish” thus far.
Campbell, clearly brilliant, once was a solid libertarian Republican, having had Milton Friedman as his Ph.D. advisor, but he has strayed badly in the last 20 years into the land of “just one more tax hike” (the latest such being a gas tax hike proposal). Sorry, Tom, I like ya personally, but our taxes are quite high enough, thanks. Pass.
Poizner seems like the best hope to me. Whitman’s not part of the solution, she’s part of the problem.