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You mixed up the parties in 96 and 76.

Should be an Ex-Justice for CEH in 1916. And he was a Governor too.

Doesn’t bode well for Bachmanm or especially for Donald Chump and for Businessman/Failed Senate Candidate Herman Cain whom I’m starting to like by process of elimination. Cain’s not that different from Lincoln who only had one house term (and a stint in the state house).

Few out of left field nominations (Alton Parker, Wilkie, rats cross-endorsing the strange Mr. Greeley in 1872 has got to be the oddest thing)

We got potentially

Ex-Governors Palin, Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Huntsman (had to resist being creative with his name), Gary Johnson, Buddy Roemer (still can’t believe that) and Barbour (still in now but will be out of office by then)

Current Governor Mitch Daniels

Ex-Senator Santorum

Current Rep Bachmann, Ron Paul (or his son Senator Rand)

Ex-Rep Gingrich

Ex-Ambassador Bolton

Businessmen Cain and Chump.

We need someone to have a chance who

A)Won’t RINO it up in office at least not as bad as Bush
B)Can win the general election

Last time Freeperdom was squarely behind Fred Thompson (who was the best choice imo) followed by 1%er Duncan Hunter. We all know how that went.

My fantasy is have several highly electable solid small government conservatives running and no RINOs. As opposed to sifting through garbage like in ‘08 and maybe ‘12. (my other fantasy is to win the lottery)

Trump’s hopefully temporary appeal illustrates the vast hunger for a fresh face as opposed to to the current “frontrunners”. Can Cain take advantage of that? Bolton?

Or in the end will it boil down to Palin or Bachmann versus the unacceptable Romney?

Whoops, you’re right. I’m feeling a bit ill today, so that accounts for my copy and paste errors. Horace Greeley was probably the single oddest nominee of the bunch. He had been a Conscience Whig Congressman 25 years earlier having served for just three months, tried on a few other occasions for office. He tried to run as a Republican for Congress just two years earlier in 1870. His behavior had been quite erratic in that period (personally, I think he may have been ill) jumping from one extreme to another. His candidacy was an epic disaster and he only won 6 states (3 by unimpressive narrow margins, TN & KY and MD). The Democrats essentially annointed what were simply anti-Grant Republicans in rubber-stamping the Liberal Republican Party rump. As it was, Greeley and his wife didn’t survive the stress of the campaign (she herself was something else, a possibly even more deranged version of Jane Pierce, helped in no small part by her husband, all very sad). Horace himself went over the edge and died just a few weeks after he lost the election. The Dem/Lib R’s probably would’ve done better nominating someone like Charles Francis Adams (who placed 2nd) and kept B. Gratz Brown of MO as the VP nominee.

As for our current cast of characters, I’m just waiting to see how it all pans out. I haven’t jumped on the Trump bandwagon, nor am I criticizing him as of yet. If he wants to take on the mantle of doing the lifting our party refuses to do in aggressively demanding the Emperor show his documents (and not just the birth records, either — I want to see everything he’s kept hidden, which is considerable — keep in mind Kerry never let us see his military records, which was also very telling), let him do it. Trump may be a modern-day counterpart to Wendell Willkie.

As for Bachmann, I don’t take her candidacy seriously. She needs more seasoning from an executive experience standpoint. Too many rookie errors. She’s a fine lady, though, but she’s not ready, and the House is no place to run for President from (ditto for Pence, Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter). The only person I could support in the House right now for President is Col. West, and that only because he has the military leadership and that “it” factor that you see in very rare instances in people, and especially all too rare in our elected officials. He’d quite probably be the most intelligent individual to hold the office of President of anyone in the past century, if not longer.

My two cents:

Palin (Won’t run)
Romney (Please)
Huckabee (Please)
Pawlenty (Weenie)
Huntsman (Please)
Gary Johnson (Pro-drugs, otherwise isn’t horrible)
Buddy Roemer (Please)
Barbour (White male with a heavy Southern accent vs. Obama...don’t know how that will play. Personally, I like him.)
Daniels (Weenie)
Santorum (Got blown out by a fern. UN Ambassador maybe)
Bachmann (Now you’re talking)
The Pauls (Libertarian or just kooky?)
Gingrich (Please)
Bolton (Isn’t he pro-qweer marriage? If not, maybe VP.)
Cain (No way a Black man gets near the presidency again, thanks to Barry.)
Trump (Flip-flopper, but he’s going after Soetoro, which is good.)

I see Jeb Bush getting drafted as the GOP POTUS candidate.

Like I’ve posted numerous times before, I can see Jeb Bush getting drafted as the GOP POTUS nominee.

Since 1900, only one Republican became president by defeating an incumbent. That was Ronald Reagan. He had these four traits that might have helped him:

1. He was conservative.
2. He was a governor.
3. He sought the nomination, in a previous election.
4. He was from the West.

These Republicans, who might run, have at least three of those four traits: Sarah Palin, Dirk Kempthorne, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romney. I hope that all of them will run, and I hope that Haley Barbour and Buddy Roemer will run. I hope that at least four of them will continue campaigning until the convention. If that happens, no one will get the majority of the delegates before the convention. The convention will be more suspenseful and exciting, causing more people to watch and hear the great republican ideas. That happened in 1980, and Reagan won about 40 states.