I'd like to use your tactics and say the above means Sarah Palin shouldn't run according to you, but I know you're referring to those who ran for president. : )
If we employed YOUR rule, Reagan would never have run in 1980, and we would have missed out on his two glorious presidential terms, to the great detriment of our nation.
Reagan was different — he was a good candidate that barely lost. It was also a different way of electing our candidate during those years. If Reagan ran against Ford say in 2000 instead of 1976, he would have won IMHO because everything is different today.
I don’t think we had one candidate that stood out in the field. Not to say they didn’t mean well but none of them hit it out of the park and I worked for one of them here in OK but I can admit he didn’t run a very good race.
I like Sarah but the jury is still out on whether she will even want to run in 2012.
The GOP debates were horrible IMHO. I want someone to energize the Party. I don’t want a candidate that chooses who asked questions at his Town Halls for starters.
I want someone who makes me want to work 24/7 to help elect them. I worked a lot of hours for McCain but my heart wasn’t in it.