I hope to see all your answers, as I consider it a learning experience for me. Here is my list;
Mitt Romney
Pros: Fiscally conservative, seems to be knowledgeable on foreign policy, able to raise money, electable, articulate, very smart, businessman
Cons: his healthcare plan, flip-flopped on abortion, guns, and ethanol
Tim Pawlenty
Pros: accomplished governor, his tone is hard to get mad at, has Midwestern appeal
Cons: He did support a regional cap and trade program, he supports ethanol subsidies
Sarah Palin
Pros: Able to rock social conservatives, able to raise money
Cons: Inexperienced, not electable according to polls
Newt Gingrich:
Pros: Ideas guy, smart, very conservative
Cons: Personal life, baggage, shut down the govt. back in '95
Mitch Daniels:
Pros: Proper temperament, deficit hawk, soft-spoken
Cons: not appealing to social conservatives, not well-known, did support a tax hike
John Thune:
Pros: Appealing to NRA voters, articulate
Cons: Washington insider
Rick Santorum:
Pros: Socially Conservative
Cons: Supported Donald Rumsfeld, unelectable
Ron Paul:
Pros: None
Cons: Against the Bush-era foreign policy, wants to go back to the gold standard, crazy, not smart, and unelectable
Gary Johnson: Same as Dr. Paul
Mike Pence:
Pros: Conservative, articulate
Cons: Washington insider
Michele Bachmann:
Pros: Fiscally and socially conservative, has midwestern charm
Cons: Has made a few gaffes
John Bolton:
Pros: Wants to reform the U.N., understands foreign affairs
Cons: Has less economic experience than some others, is he electable?
