The Best GOP Field Of Our Lifetimes

As usual, the conventional wisdom is wrong.

June 13, 2011: From left, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and businessman Herman Cain stand on stage before a Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire.

by Rod D. Martin
June 21, 2011

I don’t have a candidate yet. But I have a field.

The legacy media – the folks who in 2008 gloated openly about being “in the tank for Obama” while their viewers and readers melted away before our eyes – tells us that the Republican presidential field is horribly weak, unknown, uninspiring. Already, I hear plenty of Republicans agreeing.

Those same Republicans agreed with the media that Bob Dole was “the only electable Republican candidate in 1996,” a mantra we heard unendingly…until Dole clinched the nomination and the exact same pundits instantly adopted the exact opposite position. They bought similar lines about Giuliani and Mc…