The real problem is they couldn't find one qualified person with a squeaky clean personal history to run against Obama. To run as a Republican these days, you need to have a squeaky clean "eagle scout who married young" type of background, without a lot of old girl friends and certainly no extramarital affairs or drug use. Every Pubbie knows the liberal media is out to roast him/her and will stop at nothing to find dirt, as we saw with Jack Ryan. I thought it was despicable for the AP to sue to unseal Ryan's divorce records, and I have no idea why any judge granted this request (except that the Judge might have been afraid of all those DNC operatives.) There are a lot of people who would like to run for the US senate, but they don't want every day of their lives to be investigated and written up by a##hole democrat journalists. We really have to start finding more folks with squeaky clean backgrounds and persuade them to become Pubbie politicians. It's a new calling in life.