re: #488 Guanxi88

Palin was a joke; she undermined the critique of Obama’s green-ness (in the sense of inexperienced).

Rudy would have been all right, but he wasn’t up to the challenge. Romney - religious bigotry. I kinda thought someone like, say, Fred Thompson, who was a perfectly well-known guy with no scandals that leap immediately to mind, might have had a chance.

Truth is though, it probably wouldn’t have mattered.

Fred didn’t seem to have the energy or the will. I figured he would have at least been a top shelf contender in the primary, but he just never seemed to want it.