Arghhh, Who/Where is our Reagan?

I have heard people say that Reagan was trailing in polls at this stage and the party was pushing to find someone more moderate so its too early to be sweating things. But unless Herman Cain starts getting serious national attention or perhaps if Palin steps into the race the GOP seems to have retreads of BLAH candidates from 2008. In 76 the GOP picked the moderate safe guy Ford and the country got Jimmy Carter and stagflation, the 'base' pushed Reagan in 80.

Huckabee and Trump are leading early GOP polls now?! ARGHHHHH! I would force myself to vote for the smarmy preacher or the conceited self promoter and hope either could get elected and would work with a GOP senate and House (please lord) majority and listen to military top people etc on foreign affairs etc but I don't like them a bit. Trump is threatening to run independent party if he runs for GOP nomination and loses that race. Not cool dude, not cool at all.

Maybe Palin will throw in and get elected. She is probably the closest thing to Reagan with some R's fearing her as being too hard core, and many like myself liking her but fearing that the media has smeared her too thoroughly -- I just don't remember any details of Reagan's 75-80 history to know what the media had done to him and if it compares at all with Palin. Reagan was elected governor of California twice. I think McCain hamstrung Palin's career nominating her to be VP when she was just a 2 year governor and thus turning the MarxSpewMedia's attention to destroying her. Personally with the best selling books, PAC, speaking engagements etc she is most certainly not destroyed --but could she win in 2012? I just dont trust that she can sell herself well enough to overcome the false impression of her that the media created in 08.

Christie? Says he won't run, and I am not sure I like him on a lot of issues but he sure puts a great verbal smackdown on socialists. Col. Alan West? Only just elected to congress. I like the dynamic patriotism but there is no political history to judge. Romney, probably should have been the GOP candidate in 08 but I am not wild about his history. He is not pointing to the MA health care law and saying "look I was sucked into a bad choice" from what I hear. Pawlenty? If he rejects carbon taxing as a cure to AGW now I'm cool with his earlier support. I was fooled too. He doesn't have to reject climate change, just convince me he will not cripple the U.S. economy with a carbon trading gesture that only breeds fraud and is meaningless in the face of China's mushrooming carbon/pollution output.

Mitch Daniels? I thought his response to the IN fleebaggers was weak. Can he get some fire in his belly to defend the founding principles of our great nation? Gingritch -yuck. Haley Barbour? Aside from the baggage of being an old fat white politician from the deep south he stated we should act as though AGW were real and totally shot himself in the foot IMO. Rubio? He has the ambition I think, I just don't know him really and he seems more interested in trying to become VP and hope for a long term Republican presidential sentiment from the public.