Later you specifically include Sarah:
I see support for her as a lost cause because of her unwillingness to do the work necessary to cure her negatives, ...
So you do not support any of the current and potential GOP field (including Rick Perry/Chris Christie in the mix)? Then who would you have run for whom you could express a preference?
She's the topic of the thread. I don't have time to write about them all.
So you do not support any of the current and potential GOP field (including Rick Perry/Chris Christie in the mix)?
I'm not thrilled with any of them. The best in the list so far, at least as far as ability is concerned seems to be Santorum (note that he is NOT getting any oxygen). Believe it or not I like Gary Johnson's administrative ability, but not his understanding of cultural issues. The last guy about whom I was at all enthusiastic was Duncan Hunter in 2008. We saw what Fred Thompson's fan dance did for his chances. FReepers fell for it in droves too. I'm afraid Sarah's "campaign" is similar. It deprives oxygen to anybody behind whom we might unite.
Then who would you have run for whom you could express a preference?
As of now, there's plenty of time to build a candidate into the kind of national figure to be viable. Maybe Pence, McClintock... Jan Brewer has shown some guts, but I don't know that much about her. It's really pretty thin, thanks in large part to Carl Rove.