Presidential Candidates for ’08, Part 2

Yesterday we identified all the less-than-stellar candidates in both main political parties that are currently running for President. I just came across a few more names on NewsMax.com such as VP Al Gore, who is an even worse a candidate than those currently running. Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg may also run as an Independent candidate and his vast wealth makes him an instant viable candidate. Because he is a New Yorker, that in itself may be enough to disqualify him in my book. I love NY, not. On the GOP side Newt Gingrich is toying with the idea of running for the highest office as well. I like many of his brilliant ideas, but there are a few other candidates in the GOP who outshine him in character. He might make a good VP or cabinet member though.

THE FEW WORTHY OF THE HIGHEST OFFICE

Amazingly, some 17 months before next year’s national elections here I already offer my choices of qualified candidates deserving of serious consideration for nomination of President of the United States in 2008. Some of these candidate face great obstacles including some or all of the following: (1) lack of financial support, (2) extreme media-bias toward any true conservative whose positions are absolutely antithetical to those of the radical left, and (3) apathy on the part of values voters who have been very disappointed by those whom they elected including President George W. Bush. The following at this point are the best of the current crop of candidates.

#1 Choice is:
Representative Duncan Hunter

#2 Choice is:
Senator Sam Brownback

#3 Choice is:
Governor Mike Huckabee

#4 Choice is:
Representative Tom Tancredo

#5 Choice is:
Senator Fred Thompson

The order of these choices will possibly change during the next year and a half. There are a lot of debates, primaries and maybe even a disaster or two to endure. But one of the five candidates must emerge as the GOP or as a independent candidate to give America any hope for rising from her current malaise and funk. This malady did not develop overnight, but by an incessant move culturally and politically toward socialism and by a double crossing so-called compassionate-conservative President, who it turns out for the most part is neither. Sadly, President Bush has proved to be just another greedy, self-centered McCain-like moderate politician.

We need a leader who will be a true statesman, one who will lead us again with genuine optimism, courage and one who will govern by the same conservative principles that gets him elected. This is in lieu of using conservative principles to get elected and then abandoning them when he no longer feels that he needs to pretend that he believes them. A lot can happen between now and November of 2008. However, let us do all we can to insure that at least one of the choices for president will be a man of character, of faith and of firm conservative principles.