Some people are thinking in terms of who we can beat, but maybe they should be thinking in terms of who would you rather lose to. The Obamination would be disastrous, he is way left of Hillary and dangerously naive to boot.
Besides, what few FReepers may have voted for Hillary in primaries I doubt would make much if any difference.
Those are the reasons I'd want Obama!! If elected, he'll actually believe his own platitudes, and waste at least his first year pushing for them. The GOP minority would have a FAR easier time opposing those bills in Congress, than opposing the less-obviously-far-Left bills that would be proposed and supported by Hillary and McCain. The mushy Dems, the non-Pelosi types, would be much more likely to be swayed by floods of phone calls and Limbaugh's spotlight, as they were in 1992-4 with HillaryCare, etc. Once the nation sees what a dangerous loon he is, we can have a Conservative Revolution (note: not a Republican Revolution as in 1994) in 2010, and get Congress back. Then he can propose all the inane bumper-sticker mentality ideas he wants. He won't get many significant ones passed, and, God willing, the GOP will get behind an actual Reaganesque limited-govermnent advocate in 2012.
I said that yesterday, I never imagined a candidate that scared me more than Hillary, and wasn’t some freak from out of nowhere, but someone who could WIN.
Don't forget the gassing and burning of the Branch Davidians either.