Profile of the Perfect Presidential Candidate ?

He/she should not be too well-known. Would not have a lot of publicized "negatives". Would be anti the status quo. Would support working and middle-class interests. Would speak out against "foreign entanglements". Would support a plan to save Social Security. Would be for fiscal responsibility. Would support re-building New Orleans. Would speak out against the lobbyists and special interests that have taken control of Congress. And would appeal to the American people as a "uniter" and would try to heal the divide between the Democrats and Republicans and call for a return to sanity.

but he hasn't announced yet.

I agree with the other traits listed.

IMO, he/she should not have "old ideas" that will not work in the 21st Century.

As a Senior citizen, I have been thinking that the perfect candidate should also have VITALITY.
GW is relatively young but has no energy. Everything is "hard work" to him.

We need a President that is old enough to be wise and has enough energy to stay awake after 9 PM.

We need a President that takes vacations like average Americans. He/She will have all the perks and doesn't have to fight the freeways, cook,write out the bills, go to the bank, find the right clothes to wear etc.

We need a President that LOVES his/her JOB.

Taken right out of the Republican play book. Of course, New Orleans is the only new part.

As the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good. If we nominated the perfect candidate, his or her perfectness would be the subject of the smear attacks, which would be used to great effectiveness. Thus, the existence of the perfect candidate is disproven.

Let's just identify a good candidate, and defend him or her to the last man, woman, and child. Anything less is and admission that we're not serious about winning.

No matter who runs...they will be swiftboated...so pick the one with lease flaws. Wes Clark fits the bill perfectly! And he doesn't take anyone's sh*t!

We'll see...

He's a uniter...not a divider and the red states would love and respect his guidance and knowledge of all things military. He'd know what we need in the way of equipment for the war and he would keep the Military Industrial Complex in it's place...no wasted money because some Corporation deserves a favor/payback for a political donation. He's also a religious southerner and we wouldn't lose a senate seat, no ties and promises to large cooperations/whores/greedy pigs etc.

Wes is our perfect candidate...made to order...a gift to the Democratic party! Let's show him our gratitude! Elect him...."Big Time"! Go Wes Go!!!!!!! :bounce:

I mean, I would have more on my list for a description of the perfect candidate but at least this guy fits your description:

We need to change the perception of what a president is supposeed to be. Most people, unfortunately, let emotion guide their choices, maybe due to the lack of a good civic education (history, government, etc.). I really believe H.L. Mencken had it right 85 years ago:

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack, or count himself lost. His one aim is to disarm suspicion, to arouse confidence in his orthodoxy, to avoid challenge. If he is a man of convictions, of enthusiasm, or self-respect, it is cruelly hard…

“The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even a mob with him by the force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second or third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

- The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920


I think his theory has been proven.