Anti-Romney Republicans

[Cobbler]

There are a few of them on the board. I'm wondering, out of the batch of Republican candidates from this cycle, who would you have wanted to get the nomination, and do you think they'd be doing better than Romney at this point?

Romney has flaws, but he's made the race close. I really have a hard time believing that Newt, Perry, or Santorum (all of which have serious flaws as well) could do that.

Discuss?

[Cobbler]

But do you think he'd have been doing well against Obama? I feel like other than maybe Huntsman, Paul, and Johnson, none of the other candidates would be doing as well as Romney against Obama.

[Cobbler]

Yup -- four Ivy League Masters of the Universe in a row.  If I'm right in my prediction, we will get our fifth in a row this year.  But thank goodness we are nowadays too smart to elect some cheap state university or Eureka College-type grad!

Why do you prefer someone from a "cheap state university"? The Eureka College type that comes to mind is Ronald Reagan, who was probably pretty friendly with the banks as well. I don't understand why going to an Ivy League university is a bad thing.