The choice is actually much simpler than you present Slab... 'specially since 2/3 of the folks on your list ain't even gonna run.

Look for dark horse ex Virginia Governor Mark Warner to make a strong showing for the dems.

Hillary? There are just too many folks that don't like her and will not vote for her no matter what the reason.

I like McCain... but he's gettin' pretty old.

Guliani ain't conservative enough for the fundamentalist Kool-Aid drinkers to get behind him, IMO.

Just think, if Karl Rove had been injured in a hunting accident by Dick Cheney in early 2000, McCain would have gotten the GOP nod, beat Al Gore in a close election, and spared us from all of the misery of the last 5 years.

Ahhh, what might have been...