Primaries... thus far:

I'm just not impressed with ANY of the candidates yet... and that is not a good thing.

If I had to pick right now, I'd go with Santorum.  He's a bit bland, but his message is clear and he has a spotless if un-spectacular record while in Congress.  He has a surprising number of religious endorsements, and very few of them (that I know of anyway) are Catholic... he has an official endorsement from the Evangelical League in SC, a Family Faith group in MS, and the Faith Matters organization in the Midwest.  I say this to point out that I am not blind to the fact that many Protestant mainstream leaders across the country see his agenda as parallel to theirs... despite his Catholic faith.

My concern is that he is a Bush Jr. sort of conservative... big spending, big ticket GOP compromiser willing to allow big spending if it gets him his agenda.  The Bush years (2001 to 2009) are not my idea of the conservative ideal... but they are a far cry better than what we've had since.

Still, he has none of the "flip-flop" taint that Romney has, and no automatic label of "hypocrite" that Gingrich is carrying around.  His understanding of American needs in foreign policy seem rooted in reality (unlike Ron Paul's) and he is MILES ahead of Buchannan, Perry and the rest in his ability to clearly spell out his ideas and goals as President.

He doesn't have a lot on his resume to sell him into the Oval Office... no executive experience, two terms in the House and two terms in the Senate, and almost no public exposure since losing his Senate seat in 2007.  If he has any money in his coffers, he needs to spend it on a PR campaign the likes of which we haven't seen since 1980.