1. For the time being: If a President will reinvigorate the economy, stabilize the budget, and advance the national interest with a coherent foreign policy, I don’t care if he sacrifices oxen to Zeus on the White House lawn. I do not care if she is a Republican or Democrat.

2. Afaic creationism does not belong in government-funded schools…of course. I was not at all happy to learn that Reagan was a creationist, but I voted for him anyway. Per Thomas Sowell, “There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs.”

3. At present, my biggest concern about Rubio is his possible militarism.

4. I am strongly disinclined to support anyone for national office unless they have been reelected to state office with a greater margin than they were elected by. The Republicans would have spared themselves Romney and Palin had they enforced that standard. Rubio will not meet it in 2016.