We desperately need some more choices. I would take Romney, Huckabee or Palin over 0bama in a heartbeat, but being better than 0bama is not saying much.
I keep having flashbacks to 1994 and 1996. After the 1994 Republican blowout, no one thought that Clinton could get elected dog catcher in 1996. Then the Republicans went and nominated Bob Dole.
***Then the Republicans went and nominated Bob Dole.***
Bob Dole was a decorated war hero - a reputation that used to mean something. From 1950 he began a career as an elected official.
Noteworthy: Dole flatly rejected the health care plan of Bill Clinton, remarking, “There is no crisis in health care.”
Another decent man decimated by the media.
Interesting that you mention that, I remember reading (and I've read this numerous times), where James Carville and Bill Clinton came up with a "rule of three", theory on the elections (at least that one in '96.
The theory goes that there is the candidate that you want to face (in that case it was Pat Buchanan), the candidate you expect to face (Bob Dole, whom they all felt they could beat) and the candidate that you don't want to face....who, oddly enough was Lamar Alexander.
I am not so sure about Carville's and Clintons famous "political instincts", after reading the both of them talking almost in fear (one of them, actually went as far as to say if Alexander got the nomination, "we're dead") of Alexander.
Personally, then, and now, I have no idea why they were so concerned with him, but I do understand why they were so happy when it was Bob Dole.
Its like 2008, when the democrats were thrilled with the GOP picking John McCain, and I am very worried about the 2012 pick being someone in that Bob Dole mold (like Romney).