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Yeah, I am thinking the Lindsey Grahamnesty/Susan Collins ticket could do it for us in 2012! /sarc

I talked to some Ron Paul folks before the election and asked if they were going to go vote McCain. Pretty much the answer was no across the board. They didn’t see any difference between McCain and the dems.

If you look at the way Georgian voted this time around, the pubbies that showed up voted McCain, then a bunch ticket split and voted liberatarian in the Senate election because they were pissed about the bailout.

I really believe that if McCain had suspended his campaign and gone to Washington and led the way to stop the bailout altogether he would’ve won. When he and Obama agreed that the bailout was necessary, the key difference between them disappeared.

McCain is an honorable man. But politically he is nothing but a tactician. Just like Dole, they were both just “deal-makers” In the Senate, that may be an attribute, but that is the antithesis of leadership when it comes to being President. McCain had no real strategy or rationale for his campaign, and if he had won, the best we were going to get was a caretaker, do no harm type of governance. The ball was not going to be moved forward on conservatism in any way shape or form.

America needs and will vote for a movement conservative. I’m not sure why Mark Sanford of SC doesn’t get more attention. He is a resolute conservative who isn’t taking any earmarks for his state.

I think governors like Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford, and Bobby Jindal are the future of the party. We need to get away from the idea that Republican Senators bring anything to the table.

Just like Dole, they were both just “deal-makers” In the Senate, that may be an attribute, but that is the antithesis of leadership when it comes to being President.

That's a pretty keen insight. Thanx.

I was a Fred Thompson fan, but after seeing your comments about senators running for President, I think back to what I saw as some of Fred's drawbacks, and that "Senate collegiality" was a hallmark he had, too.

A few years ago we had Republican governors running out our ears. Wonder what happened to all of those GOP governors? They can't all have been named Bush or turned out to be cheeseburgers.