Might we suggest another newcomer named Allen West?
The elite snobs at the Weekly Standard are showing their usual fear of Sarah Palin.
None of those candidates is credible, not without further grooming. Duncan Hunter already undermined his promising career by trying too soon last time. Never got over a few percent.
We need to start training our bench, so we have a LOT of qualified conservatives out there. And that means taking the best people and thoroughly grooming them, bringing them up through the ranks, and then running them.
That was one of Bush’s major failures: not to groom any likely successors. Not that he would have wanted a conservative successor anyway.
One reason and one reason only; the color of his skin. If obama did not have dark skin, nobody still would have heard of him.
Chris Cristie sounds great when he takes on the unions in Jersey. Beyond that he is open borders and pro 911 mosque. I also notice that he keeps social issues very quiet. Not surprising being from NJ, but not vetted yet as anyone with any shot at this short amount of time till ‘12. He has categorically denied wanting to run. He should not even be thought of a viable on those comments alone. I want someone willing to do the job.
Ryan and Pence have absolutely no experience past being politicians. Pence was a lawyer but so what. He jumped onto a huge pile of Bush stimulus spending totaling BILLIONS and he was “confused” about immigration policy as well.
Ryan has been working as a politician his whole life. I don’t care if he is right on issues, get a real job for a while then get back to me. We already have a professional politician in office and he is incompetent.
The writer here is just upset that his brand of RINO isn’t in the mix yet. Too bad. There are plenty of road tested names already in far better positions that cover the myriad of thinking on the right.
The Weakly Substandard is a CINO publication and should be considered questionable at best.
I'm particularly liking what I've seen of Paul Ryan so far.
There are some other "unknowns" I'd like to learn more about as well.
There’s still lots of time before the media and/or the Republican elite tries to crown a nominee for us. There’s no need to declare any candidate THE standard bearer to run against Obama at this point. Heck, is anybody a declared candidate yet?
You mean every potential Repub candidate has weaknesses—????
OMG! What incredible analysis from the Neo-Con Weekly.
It’s just......
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George Washington was a strong military leader who loved liberty and was devoted to its preservation. His statesmanship became apparent during his presidency and afterward.
It is the ideas and enduring principles which underlie our liberty which are the target of those who wish to destroy America today. And, by the same token, it is the history and tyranny of the counterfeit ideas of our enemies which must be understood by a successful leader. West has studied those ideas and can debate and demolish those who defend such threats to our freedom.
You may be right, but if not him, then we need to find another articulate person who can debate principles, not just discuss issues. I have not yet heard such a person. We must not be content with someone who just channels Ronald Reagan in order to sound conservative.
We need a person who, like Reagan, has done his own first-hand study of the Founders' ideas and principles and has incorporated them into his heart and soul. That was Reagan's strength. He was not borrowing lines from some previous 19th or 20th Century President. He was an authentic thought disciple of America's Founders.