Who can win the presidency
Democrats: Clinton, Obama
Republicans: Giuliani, (maybe McCain), Romney, Thompson
Huckabee can’t win. He’s too religious. Romney’s Mormonism won’t matter. Edwards can’t win the general election, too many skeletons. Giuliani and Hillary kind of cancel each other out… any criticism of him can be countered by analyzing her and her hubbie, and barring any setbacks, Rudy probably wins that. He needs to avoid pissing women off. Romney versus one of the dems would probably be a toss-up. He’s a power-hungry politician like Hillary, but I think an efficient-business-like approach to the presidency would be so natural to him, he would do well. He gets things done. Romney and Giuliani (even Huckabee to an extent) have all accomplished concrete things. Clinton, Obama, and Thompson have accomplished nothing substantial. “Fixed,” “saved,” and “reformed” are all verbs that could be applied to Romney and Giuliani, while Obama and Clinton have the verbs “tried” and “fought.” Show me the money.
As for Fred, I see no other candidate that is as well-versed as him. They’re all speaking in one-liners, while Fred goes very in-depth about every subject, which is boring TV, but its what should be running the country. I don’t think Fred will win the nomination because not enough people are listening to him.
If he somehow did win, they would start listening, and he would win handily. While Huckabee is talking about how he brought “hope” to Arkansas children by making sure they had highways, Fred was carefully explaining the boring details of how he would fix problems and run the country.
My rankings:
Thompson
Romney/Giuliani
Clinton
Huckabee
Obama
Why do I rank Clinton ahead of Huckabee? She’ll likely run the country same as Bill, minus Monica. It wasn’t that bad. I don’t trust Huckabee, Obama will probably be a lame duck his whole one term.