Letters to the Editor
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Adlai's Revenge
You can scratch Rudy and all of the other bald candidates off of the "electable" list. Seriously. U.S. voters will not elect a bald man President. I'm not saying that's fair, I'm just saying.
The GOP knows this, of course, so it will either nominate Mitt Romney, or it will nominate John McCain and then try to convince the electorate that McCain has a full head of hair, even though our "lyin' eyes" tell us that he doesn't (and by the way, please ignore that unsightly bulge in his cheek).
Hillary's a wild card because she's female, and not so much because she's Hillary. I wish her gender wasn't an issue, but it will be if she gets the nomination.
When Liddy Dole ran for the GOP nomination in 2000, she ran as the anti-Hillary. That didn't work out too well for Liddy.
There are many anti-Hillary voters, but there is no anti-Hillary candidate--that is, there is no candidate who can win solely with an anti-Hillary platform. And yes, I readily acknowledge that I'm not the first to say that.
Youthful male enthusiasm, even if it's only skin-deep, wins every time in the U.S. Back in 2000, Al Gore still had some of his youthful looks, but he was, as he always will be, an "old soul." That contrast creeped out the shallow Americans who were, in turn, attracted to the infantile George W. Bush.
Barack Obama, if nominated, would beat any repub nominee hands-down. And he would do it for the same reasons that Bill Clinton did it in '92 and '96. The trick is for Obama to make a successful transition from being "Hillary's Nemesis" to "Bill's Younger Brother."