- Draft Ryan: 2012

Look - the GOP presidential candidates we're seeing now are profoundly unremarkable. There are things I like about each of them, but on the whole they each have such a glaring weak spot that I don't think they'll be able to take down an incumbent. Besides, like it or not, we will be living and dying on this budget in 2012, so we might as well have someone who can speak with this kind of courage and conviction.

We vote for people who remind us of ourselves - or at least how we'd like to think of ourselves. Ryan is young, he's handsome, and even his enemies say he's smart. He's the one I'm seeing so far, that would have a serious chance of unseating Obama.

We're not going to find the next Reagan. But that doesn't mean that we have to go with the next McCain. If we're going to get beat, then lets at least get beat because America has chosen the path of fiscal suicide of it's own free will - not because we failed to offer them a real alternative choice.