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While I think Huckabee might make a viable candidate in the primaries, Romney won’t be. He’s DOA. Tim Pawlenty can give it a shot, but he’s got a very steep road to travel.

My big question is this: Where is Senator DeMint’s name? At this time, and I know it’s early days, the nomination is his to lose.

My big question is this: Where is Senator DeMint’s name? At this time, and I know it’s early days, the nomination is his to lose.

It's Palin. If you look at the history of people who actually got elected, you see that no senator has ever beaten a sitting president - and only one (Harding) has ever defeated a governor running for president.
And compared to Palin, other candidates in the Republican field can't draw flies. McCain sure couldn't, and he was already the nominee of his party. I make no doubt that there are people who could write a better platform than she, but you can't beat somebody with nobody. And IMHO the risk of conservative fratricide is too great when we're faced with McCain's declared goal of purging conservatives from the Republican Party. We are IMHO well advised to throw in with Sarah as being markedly better than anything that was on offer in the race for the '08 nomination. It's true that she's been nicked by the media, but that is a simple case of taking flak when you're over the target.
IMHO things will be bad enough in '12 that the only thing that would save an Obama reelection bid, other than massive fraud, would be another McCain running on the Republican side. And if we don't unite behind Sarah, my concern is that, with the help of the media and the Democrats, McCain will succeed in sticking us with another such nominee.