[arrogantsob]

Your nonsense about Bush is pathetic. There was NO more conservative candidate available than the conservative governor of the most conservative state in the union. Pretending otherwise is deceptive. Bush was critical after the 911 attacks. Would you have preferred Al Gore? Really?

How can anyone who is politically astute believe MB or Cain is politically viable in ANY way?

[DoughtyOne]

Your nonsense about Bush is pathetic. There was NO more conservative candidate available than the conservative governor of the most conservative state in the union. Pretending otherwise is deceptive. Bush was critical after the 911 attacks. Would you have preferred Al Gore? Really?

My previously stated "nonsense" about Bush didn't touch on the Bush announcement out of the blue in 1999, that he had a $70 million dollar war chest.  I'm sure that didn't have any adverse effect on the other potential candidates that year.  And as this relates to Gore, the guy that was supposed to be the only guy that could beat him, barely eaked out a victory.

Okay, it's your take that the Conservative governor of the most Conservative state in the union suddenly became the Bush we had to put up with for eight years.  It was my take then, and it's my take now, that despite some good things, Bush was an abysmal failure for Conservatism.  If for no other reason than what he handed off to Obama, he absolutely crushed our ability to blame Obama for anything for several years.  Bush blew out the national debt by around 92%.  What footing did we have to take Obama to task out of the gate, for overspending?

What were the election results for 2000?  You do remember right?  Would you say that folks saw Bush so much more Conservative, that he blew away the contemptable Al Gore?  In 2004, we saw a repeat of that.  If Bush were the president you think he was, why could he barely eak out a win over the likes of Gore or Kerry?

How can anyone who is politically astute believe MB or Cain is politically viable in ANY way?

Ronald Reagan ran into trouble during the campaign for his first term in office.  He wasn't doing well at all until after January of 1980.  The money wasn't rolling in, and it got so bad, in February he fired the top three campaign staff, the count was up to 13 the following day, and upwards of ten times more left in short order.

Now, what was that you were saying?