“Uh, ever hear of Dwight D. Eisenhower? Petraeus is a dedicated Republican, believe me! He’s been in the Army now 35 years and will soon be retiring and looking for other things to do...he also has earned a Ph.D. from Princeton “
This is sort of delusional fantasy. We don’t know anything about the generals (Petreus, Franks etc) except that they are patriots and skilled generals. That is great, but certainly not sufficient to become a POTUS. Do you know his opinion on affirmative action, supply-side economics, abortion, state rights etc? Also, what are his political campaign skills? Is he charismatic enough ?
Getting electing nowadays (without media help, like B.Hussein) is tough and you really must have all the necessary things in order (in addition to political opinions).
Well, I see the same kind of vaccum that existed in history after the FDR/Truman era was done. Then it was who would the Republican party nominate to take on (socialist) Adali Stevenson: Windell Willkie, Thomas Dewey again, or Harold Stassen? They ended up drafting Ike.
I have enough optimism that America will be economically fatigued of OWE-bama come 2012 when the second stimulus fails like our current first one, the cap and trade "eco" results on "eco"(nomic) disaster and health care chokes paychecks to death.