Early polls have put him at a distant third behind McCain and Guliani for Republican candidate. He's got a pretty good business record - as well as the things listed on the site you linked, he is also credited with eliminating a $3 billion deficit as governor of Massachusetts without raising taxes.
Actually, somewhat similar to Obama, he's attempting to characterize himself as an outsider who wants to change Washington:
"I don't believe Washington can get transformed by someone from the inside, by someone who has been part of politics throughout their entire life, who's made all the deals. To have government change and transform, to have innovation come into government, you've got to have somebody who spent their lifetime innovating and transforming."
His biggest hurdles so far will be his religion (which a fair amount of the religious right consider to be a non-Christian cult), and his flip-flopping on the issues of abortion and same-sex marriage (which is mostly what made him so unpopular in Massachusetts, as BurningRanger mentioned).
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I mean, at least Obama sounds normal and not uberconservative- two steps forward from potential Republican candidates.
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I'm not sure if you're familiar with them, but I wouldn't exactly call McCain and Guliani "uberconservative" by any means. They're both pretty moderate, especially Guliani.
At any rate, I think we can all be glad that
this guy doesn't stand snowball's a chance in Hell.
Man, just look at his website. He sure likes to advertise his book at the top of every page; apparently God really needs some cash.
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