Obama: Said he would go after assault weapons. Not my vote.
Hillary: Doesn't have to say it now. Her record is clear. Not my vote.
Thompson: Too late too get in, too late to start running, and too late to get out in my opinion.
McCain: He'd probably protect guns. I agree. He also would probably bomb Iran. Doing so would throw the whole world into a fire. Looking at the economy, I'm of the opinion we ought to forgo our wars for awhile and work on fixing things here at home. The war on terror? We've beaten 'em as far as I'm concerned, and I'd rather see the National Guard building new bridges in Minnesota than new schools in Iraq. Yeah, call me heartless, but we may be looking at a recession or depression soon, so it's time to start bringing the jobs, the troops, and the money home IMO. And time to kick some illegals out. McCain doesn't have such a good record on that. And finally I think he's just too old. He's 72 from what I hear. I look at him at speeches and he looks like he's in pain just standing there. I wonder if he'll even make it to the convention.
Ron Paul: Be great if he would win. He would scare the bejezzus out of corporate anti-individual freedom types. But he doesn't stand a chance now that I can see. Not enough support.
Guiliani: Cross dressing, ex-New Yorker, who ignored 5 of the first states in the nation in order to concentrate on Florida, the first place that "real people" (not us idiot rubes in fly-over country in other words) live. If he jets back and forth between California and New York he might come up with enough delegates to win. In that dress though...he's gonna win the South? I don't think so. He may not even win his own home state. Polls there aren't looking to good for him. As Arnold might say, "Once anointed! Now?...Disjointed!"
Romney: Flip flopper label for one. He's going to have real problems in the South cause he's Mormon. His record isn't real clear. He's too pretty to me. I want an ugly looking Abe Lincoln joker in there right now. Someone who isn't full of himself.
Huckabee: An odd duck. In his favor, he's ugly...I guess I should say, physically unattractive. Supporter of 1st and 2nd amendment. Throws the God Talk around enough to make people who aren't God Talkers themselves suspect he's a religious wacko, but on his straight line discussion about what he'll do in Washington, he comes off sounding at times like Ron Paul Light...which is ok with me. If he gets too preachy with the God stuff, there'll be Congress and the Supreme Court to put a kibosh on any excesses of gestures he might want to make to his base. And I'd like to see a guy in there who thinks there is SOME Higher Authority waiting to burn him to a crisp in the afterlife instead of acting like they ARE the Higher Authority. Personally I'll probably vote for him. Does he stand a chance in the general election? Probably not. Of course that might depend upon how fractured the democratic party is and how well the economy is doing come election time. Right now I think the Republican Party would have a tough time with ANY candidate. People are ready for change.
Third Party: There's enough dissatisfaction with government to give them a strong showing if they've got the right mix of political ideas. But I don't see one with the right mix of ideas showing up. They are either going to be left leaning, or right leaning, and have not enough of the middle.
We'll see though.