My sense has always been that if they can’t win their own primary, then they can’t win the general election.
I preferred any number of people to Romney the last time around, and Romney was a lousy candidate. In order, I supported Perry/Cain, Gingrich, Santorum. I’ll never know if they could have won the general election. But I don’t think so.
Of all those names, I think that Cain probably would have done best.
But the truth remains: he didn’t even make it out of the early primaries.
I agree. You have to have broad appeal to win the Presidency. The only republican who has that is Trump.