Do you have a favorite? I know who I don't want but I want the most conservative I can get who will take out Obama and I don't necessarily think we have to choose a "moderate" to defeat Obama.
Likability can go a long way.
I agree with that. I don't really have a favorite, but I wish I did. What I mean by that is no one jumps out at me and says definitively, “I am your candidate”. Yet. I like a lot of different characteristics of several individuals— I wish I could put those characteristics together into one! I am at the point where I would vote for just about any Republican candidate because I think that to have survived the primary, with a motivated tea party vote, there is no way that individual could be worse then Obama and his entourage of socialist, communist and uber- liberal czars and department heads. I also want to be realistic and want someone to run that is electable. So at this point in time, I guess I am personally looking for a candidate that has the foreign policy know how of a John Bolten, the likability and executive experience of a Tim Pawlenty, the ba**s of a Chris Christie and a Sarah Palin (I say this as a woman), the historical knowledge of a Newt Gingrich, I like David Patraeus; I even think Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, Bobby Jindal and Romney to an extent have things going for them, although maybe not my first choice.
I'll just throw this one out there : Pawlenty/Bolten ‘12?