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Searching For The Gipper
By Doug Patton
November 27, 2006
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John McCain -- The architect of the incumbent protection act (laughingly called campaign finance reform) and of the senate's gang of fourteen, which prevented the GOP leadership from exercising the constitutional option that would have shut down Democrat filibusters of judicial appointments, the senior senator from Arizona has spit in the eye of the Republican base just once too often. His political experience is strictly as a congressional compromiser. He is irritating and visionless. I would give McCain a two on the Gipper meter.
George Pataki -- The governor of New York is Rudy Giuliani without the charisma. A zero on the meter.
Mitt Romney -- The governor of Massachusetts is an unknown entity to most of the country. He has the charisma, the experience (Americans tend to elect governors to the presidency) and the vision. If he turns out to be as conservative as he wants us to believe he is, and if he can overcome the fact that he is a Mormon with evangelical voters, he could position himself as the next Ronald Reagan.
Come to think of it, there was only one Ronald Reagan, and we may never see his equal again.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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