Alan Keyes is a masterful debater as well and extremely articulate at explaining conservative philosophy. In fact, he even got to debate Obama one-on-one in a U.S. Senate race and gave a great preformance. Watch it on youtube and you'll agree. Have you seen Keyes take office any time soon? Heck , has he even come CLOSE to winning ANY election?
>> How the other candidates would fare in a debate with Obama... <<
Assuming Perry isn't the nominee and Obama isn't allowed to use a teleprompter, I imagine they'd fare pretty well and more than hold their own against the stutterer-in-chief. I remember Obama back from his days in the Illinois State Senate and (as the rest of America became aware of in the last 3 years) his off-the-cuff oratory skills aren't that impressive at all. He does well if he's reading a speech ghost written by Bill Ayers but he's lousy at formulating his own thoughts. I watched this dope lose a debate to do-nothing "former" black panther Bobby Rush (who ALSO can't debate his way out of a paper bag) so I know what I'm talking about. Even McCain did a farely decent job debating Obama, and was polling ahead of him until the economy tanked (though Obama and McCain's responses were so muted and lackluster during the second 2008 debate, they were BOTH putting me to sleep)
I don’t agree with you, Obama is an extremely skilled communicator in both his speeches and the debates. He’s gotten a lot better with the off-the-cuff stuff since the last election.
I also want a candidate who has real, thought-out solutions to our nation’s problems and a record of being able to put major change into practice. That is Newt. Santorum’s ideas are paper-thin, Bachmann’s are unworkable and Perry’s are often ridiculous (part-time Congress?). And none of them have the power of persuasion to sell them to the country. Newt is the complete package, far and away the best candidate we’ve had in the running since Ronald Reagan.