With all due respect, I believe that thought process is part of or is the problem. We look too much at who is electable and not at the person and his or her views. Allen West is my kind of leader, he is not perfect , but I have to respect a man of honor and virtue.
I wish Allen the best, and will donate to help him.
Sorry, electability is the number 1 factor to consider. I think my neighbor is right about nearly everything, but he's not electable and would therefore be a silly candidate. Like it or not, being a politician takes skill. Most people do not possess said skill. The public may say they want the "regular guy" to run, but those kind of candidates tend to get shredded and people end up laughing at them rather than voting for them. The more competitive the district the more skill one needs. West is getting good at being a politician, but he is nowhere near ready to run VP or President. For now, lets just make sure we help West win re-election to his congressional district and hope he will be ready for something bigger in the future.
If you are trying to win Brownie points then ignore electability. If you are actually trying to affect politics then you cannot.
The Democrats didn’t nominate Obama because they thought he was the most electable. If that was their criteria, they’d have nominated Hillary. They took a chance on picking someone who truly stood for their godless, communist values, and they won big, getting almost their entire agenda passed. If we don’t nominate people that represent the same confidence in and commitment to our beliefs, how do we ever expect to defeat the left? If we keep switching the presidency back and forth between the radical left and the mushy middle, then that guarantees the country will remain in a permanent leftward direction...one step left, then standing still, one more step left, now standing still again, then left...
The reality is those “independent” voters are so ignorant, you could get anyone elected with the right ad campaign. So why shouldn’t we try to get the best person possible elected since the swing voters don’t look for actual substance anyway?