[wmfights]

My frontrunners remain Governor Palin or Governor Perry, Texas.

What are your thoughts about Haley Barbour, or Michelle Bauchman? I also like Mitch Daniels. I'm not sure Sarah Palin can win.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I like Rick Perry, too. I don't know of a downside for him. Republicans need to appeal to the TV generation which is why if they wig out and nominate another Bob Dole like Haley Barbour or Newt Gingrich, Obama will be sitting in the Oval Office destroying this country for another four years.

Please, God, let the Republicans use their heads and nominate someone who can actually get elected.

Perry/Palin sounds good to me.

[arasina]

What are your thoughts about Haley Barbour, or Michelle Bauchman? I also like Mitch Daniels. I'm not sure Sarah Palin can win.

Have the media aired any of their comments about this? Have you seen any video of statements made by any of those you mention, or Huckabee, or Romney, or Ryan? Nope.

(and who exactly is Michelle Bauchman? I imagine you meant Michele Bachmann, whom I respect and admire.)

[xzins]

Haley Barbour, in a discussion last week on FR, had those IDing him as a rino with either pro-choice or pro-gay items that will haunt him. Don’t remember which.

Michelle Bachman is a congresswoman, and, as marlowe points out, the last (and only) person to go from the House to the White House was James Garfield. Different story if she runs for governor or senator, but even then, she wouldn’t be ripe for 2012.

I don’t have a line on Mitch Daniels.

Gov Palin has a huge base (and database) now, and if money and organization are the lubricants of victory, then she can win.

My money, though, is on Rick Perry. He’s solid social and fiscal conservative, he’ll have 38 electoral votes in his pocket from his own state, has a base, an organization, experience both nationally and internationally, and will pull the entire south and most of the southwest with him.

If those states + the few red-leaning go with him, he’s an automatic 300 electoral votes = victory.