Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10975360-20140613150705/@comment-10975360-20140617134838

dole was too old in 1996, Gramm, buchanan and forbes, too conservative for the electorate, alexander too unknown, Bush out of the running (cant really have a father-son presidential succession), Lugar too bland, Quayle "potatoe - need i say more"

that leaves McCain, Kemp, Pete Wilson, maybe Gingrich as realistic challengers to Powell, id probably say the odds are about 80/20 in Powell's favour for winning the nomination

i though maybe Dole as veep for one term, then GWB from 2001-2005, that would balance it out. Dole would be too old to act as an active veep after 2000, and Bush would ensure he carried the south in 2000.

I was thinking names? Christine Todd Whitman for interior or health, Richard Lugar for sec of state?