Da Tech Guy has a poll, for GOP / Tea Party types: which potential Presidential candidates would make you stay home and let the Democrat win by default?
Results are pretty much in line with the way I voted, plus a few upvoted losers whose names I vaguely recognize without actually knowing enough to reject them out of hand. Note that prominent SoCons seems to be getting a lot of reject-votes.
And: ordinarily, while I wouldn't put Allen West in "stay home" territory, I'd figure he needs to mellow considerably before I'd want him as President. And, maybe, he'll be ready by 2016. But, right now? Maybe what we need in the White House now, indeed last year, is a patriotic hothead with a good supply of levelheaded (and competent) advisers.
Only vaguely off topic: I just had a chat with a twentysomething who, after a careful exchange of coded countersigns, turned out to be a minarchist with plans to relocate to Montana. Going for the younger, high-information voters? Don't be Big Brother.
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