Who will the GOP run in 2012? McCain is a fall guy and they will wait in the wings for Reagan 2

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I keep a close eye on the Republicans and their doings.

Their strategy right now, is basically, they're going to throw this mess to Hillary/Obama (and boy what a mess it is), and try to Jimmy Carter him/her.

Remember how easily people forgot about Nixon and ushered in Reagan dominance in 1980.

The Dem nominee is going to inherit a country that is in terrible shape, that will take a long time to fix, if ever. But they'll make people forget about Bush and pretend it was all Hillary's fault.

Then in 2012, with the country reeling from years of recession and energy crisis, they will stage a 1980 type coup.

This is why they're not even going to pretend to get behind McCain. People who are worried about him are irrationaly scared. He is a flawed politician. He only won the GOP nod by default because Romney was Mormon, Rudy had the most baggage EVER, and Thompson was always a joke to anyone outside free republic. He will get crushed by either Hillary or Obama.

2012 is when one must worry. But who does the GOP have in the wings? Who will be their Reagan in 4 years?

Perhaps John Thune, the senator from South Dakota. He's very good looking and is an evangelical so he will rally the activists in Iowa, etc. He might be too good looking though, in that Romney Ken Doll way. Something about him is flawed, but it might be him.

People talk about Crist, the governor from Florida. He has the look and appeal, but there's a lot of rumors he's homosexual, and some other weirdness, and that won't fly with the GOP base.

South Carolina governor Mark Sanford. He could be it. I think it will be either Sanford or Thune.