No one not known for executive experience beats anyone with executive experience.Senators only win if they are opposed by other senators - NOT against governors and certainly not against sitting presidents. Kennedy beat Nixon in ’60 - but then, VP is NOT an executive position, but effectively an elected prince. “Elected,” only in the sense that his running mate won, that is. Few sitting VPs have won election - and that essentially represents a “third term” for the sitting POTUS.
Ronald Reagan isn’t in the offing. We’d be best off to settle on a good governor, perhaps Scott Walker if he wins reelection.
Whoever we nominate will have the opposition of wire service journalism, and must be willing and able to burn through it with truth telling. Romney would have had a real chance if he had been willing to go to the mat over Benghazi over the opposition of Candy Crowley in the last debate. That would have taken more courage than Mitt was willing to muster.
Inaction is the greatest evil, and I believe many men and women that could stand up. Just don’t, because they refuse to sacrifice what they have. I don’t want anyone like that.