Why do we continue to waste both our collective time and bandwidth trying to convince one another why President Obama should not be re-elected? That may be a legitimate question among different groups of Americans, but from what I've read posted in this forum, that's not an issue that requires a lot of debate here.

Why not, instead, begin a discussion and an evaluation of which of the declared Republican candidates for nomination might be the most qualified, from an experience and character perspective? Which of the declared candidates truly does have a chance of gaining the votes, first of enough Republicans to achieve the nomination, but more importantly the required 51% of the electorate needed to win the general election? Which of the declared candidates could actually lead the country out of the morass of partisan disagreement that has frozen our democratic process for several years?

I might suggest that, knowing all that we know now, that there are two such candidates, maybe three, worthy of our consideration--Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, and possibly Newt Gingrich. Would anyone agree that we might be better served by comparing and contrasting their qualifications than continuing the drone of bashing President Obama or extolling candidates that through their experience or by their conduct and character have not earned our support and are very likely not electable.