[sickoflibs]

RE :”It may come down to that......Who best to see to it that the US stops slipping in how the world views us.
Lots of things to have to consider here.”

The seeds of this decline were planted in the last administration by those that talked about how important it was that we be the world power. Those seeds were $$$(debt) related and also electing Obama. Romney is now the descendant of that school.

You dont stay a major world power by bankrupting your country, letting the better jobs flee over-seas (without bringing back better sustainable ones) and letting the country be invaded by the poor from a third world nation.

[Marine_Uncle]

Of course your responses are valid. Many of us just keep repeating the underlining issues that have screwed this nation up so bad. I was just adding a few things that should be considered in the over all elective process.
Newt has his bad points. But taking in totality do they out weigh his strong points.
Huntsmen and Paul scare the hell out of me, from a foreign affairs and national security standpoint. Cain. Well I think the reality is he will need one heck of a lot of couching in most everything not job related.
The rest of the pack are in between both extremes. Mitt talks a good show. But on national security interests and how the military will be treated by the next administration. As usual they all get a sixty second time frame to wade into things that should take days on end with no breaks to expand on. In all due honesty I am not impressed by anyone that participates in these debates.