For the last five or six decades, the Republican Party always seems to do better on the presidential level when it offers the country a chief executive -- governors, mainly, but also generals, VPs, maybe someday business-types. Think Eisenhower (general), Nixon (VP), Reagan (Gov), Bush I (VP), Bush II (Gov). Legislators are losers. Forget Goldwater (Senate), Ford (House), Dole (Senate) and McCain (Senate). So naturally, with 2012 just around the corner, we peek in on that presidential   read more »