A Great Communicator

Whatever the GOP does in 2012, let's get a candidate that can speak well.

Let's have a leader that can speak with ease and authority on a wide range of topics, who is articulate and comfortable in his own skin. President-elect Obama is that way. Ronald Reagan was the epitome of this.

But most of the other candidates in recent years, win or lose, were not great speakers. George W. Bush obviously was not a talented speaker at all, with odd mannerisms and a stilted, fumbling delivery. But Gore was mind-numbingly boring and Kerry came off as a elitist snob.

Bill Clinton was an excellent and intelligent speaker but Bob Dole, though good, was not anywhere near as gifted. I really don't remember the George H. W. Bush's speeches very well, which may be commentary in itself. Dukakis and Mondale are blurs to me.

I just can't bear another election cycle where I feel that my candidate is incapable of expressing clearly the party's position.