Bachmann
Cain
Santorum
Paul
Huntsman
Romney and Perry must be left as the only two choices. Anyone who is not a member of the Establishment must be pilloried whenever possible.
I expect Democrats to take Bachmann to task for the misstep she made.
I expect the media to take Bachmann to task for the misstep she made.
What I see are a lot of people who self-identify as Conservative who are trying to quash Bachmann's campaign.
Is that the best use of your time?
MY time? i like her far better than i like Palin for the job, but as a woman myself, i am not going to excuse her from the consequences of her own foibles. I also believe the ones you list NEED winnnowed, as they cannot WIN. I am hopeful that others may still enter the field with more electability going for them.
I use my conservative non-freeper friends and twenty something children as a gauge on who is electable. If one never leaves FR and uses this forum as barometer, one gets a very unrealistic view of the voting populace, IMO. The “folks” are nowhere near as engaged or informed as freepers are, and they look at these candidates very skeptically.
“Mark my words: the GOP and the media will winnow the field of canddiates one by one —”
Paul will always be out there. He’s not doing to this to get into the WH and there will always be a significant number of crazies who go for him.