Many Valley Republican activists still shopping for a presidential star

[sailingaway]

http://www.gazettenet.com/2011/12/28/picking-a-candidate

[Aratus]

when deval patrick won the governor's race in 2006 he had a well honed machine he sent north in 2008.

mitt romney has a latent strength down here but few of his people are making the groundling drive north.

this suggests that like Iowa, New Hampshire will be media blitzed by he. the story lays out our landscape.

[Philosophy_of_Politics]

It's hard for them to pick, when there is now a candidate running that defies everything they knew about "Mainstream Conservatism."