Oh, yeah. Electability. Forgot about that one. A good number of primary voters, including here on this site, are willing to hand the nomination to a guy of whom they have no evidence whatsoever that he’s electable in a general election, because he’s not only never been elected before in his adult life, he’s never run for office before in his adult life. To borrow from “Joe Versus The Volcano”, we not only don’t know whether he can do the job, we don’t even know if he can get the job. So again, if we’re going to rule out Sarah Palin because she’s supposedly unelectable, and then consider Donald Trump as a non-vanity nominee, we’re obviously judging the other candidates on other standards than what we say we are.
VERY well said!