re: #28 SanFranciscoZionist

Tend to agree with this.

The rules are definitely changing.

I’ve said this before, but I recall sitting in a parking lot in the spring of, it must have been 2007, yukking it up with a coworker at the idea that anyone really thought either a woman or a black man was going to take the Democratic nomination. Science fiction time! Cheesy unbelievable thriller time!

Now we’re talking seriously about a black Republican hanging on long enough to take his party’s nomination. I don’t think it’s going to happen, and if it is, I really wish to God it wasn’t Herman Cain, who, if nothing else, doesn’t deserve the place in the history books, but things are changing pretty fast in this arena.

In 2004, when I watched Obama give the Keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, I knew that he was very likely going to be their nominee for an upcoming Presidential election. However, I had the feeling that it was more likely going to be the 2012 race versus 2008 because he was a relative unknown outside of the Chicago area.

For the Republicans, if they could get a credible candidate, then I think that they would be very electable. Unfortunately, the three most recently in the national spotlight are either completely crazy (Alan Keyes), corrupt (J. C. Watts), or …well, just pick one with Cain. The non-fringe potential candidates that they have had a chance to groom, they literally chased from the party with their extremism (Colin Powell and Condelezza Rice).