If likability and intelligence are the criteria for electability, and, along with a firm understanding of conservative principles, the sine qua non for candidates worthy of conservative support, then Pat Toomey, freshman Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, is certain to be nominated for President someday.
Don't know him?
This video from the Heritage Foundation will introduce him to you. In it, after just a month in the Senate, he took on Secretary of Penury... er... Treasury Timothy (I-don't-need-to-pay-no-stinking-taxes) Geithner on the Calamity! Disaster! Catastrophy! of not raising the debt limit. Here he is again with basically the same message at the American Enterprise Institute.
You might also watch this video of him introducing his own budget plan that would get the United States budget to balance in ten years without raising taxes. He is accompanied by his budget co-sponsors -- a veritable pantheon of Conservative Senate heroes. In order of appearance, they are Ron Johnson (R-WI) -- who took out Russ (McCain) Feingold -- Jim DeMint (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT) -- who replaces Robert (The RINO) Bennett, and Marco Rubio (R-FL) -- who took out Charlie (The Traitor) Crist. Jim DeMint was so sure of being re-elected in South Carolina that he had only Alvin (Who?) Greene as an opponent.
If Pat Toomey were better known, there'd be no worries among conservatives about who should be President.
