Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry's links to Christian Dominionism.

I can't imagine much that would be worse than living under a Christian theocracy.

We should put them on a plane to Kandahar and let all fundamentalists slap each other to exhaustion.

Well, if it's any comfort, the US would sooner vote for a black man than a woman for the office of President. So, Bachmann and Palin are both crazier than crazy, but there is the saving grace that the folks they appeal to would never vote for someone without the all-important twig and berries under the hood. As for Perry? Nah.

I'm thinking Romney will get the nomination. He used to live down the street from me in the US - Mormons are a bit unusual, but they seem to be nice folks without the sturm und drang of the fundies.

Probably Bachmann or Perry would be similar to GW Bush in terms of references to religion but not more. They will tone down their rhetoric and references to their faith and it is already happening. Perry is a formidable politician that will say anything and its opposite and without a teleprompter.
Obama did his bus tour and his speeches were shockingly uninspirational and dull. He even argued with a tea partier really clumsily. We are far from the "yes we can". I sometimes wonder if Pres. Obama is deeply depressed.

If this is the lineup - Mormon, Batshit, and Crazy - then Obama is a shoe in.

I'm still holding my breath for a viable 3rd candidate because I do not want to vote for Obama, but I'd sooner burn in the eternal fires of hell than vote Republican.

I disagree. I think Romney would be the sanest, and least theocratic choice. Go to YouTube and look for Bachman's interview from Sunday on Meet The Press... or maybe it's on the NBC website.

But they went with the sane old guys repeatedly (Dole, McCain) and it did not work. They will go for the crazy people this time and it won't be Romney.
Romney and his millions don't connect with Americans. He laughs at his own jokes that fall flat anyway. It is a lost cause. + he did not leave Massachusets in very good order and there is plenty of interesting thinks to debate about his tenure.
I say Perry or Bachmann as a good guess.

Bachmann is too closely tied to the Teabagger Party. I'd like to believe that American voters are smart enough to figure out the damage they have caused.

But then I'm also remembering how the "smart" American voters re-elected Bush....

Meh.

1) It's primary season. (Or will be. In another six months.) Once any of these characters is nominated I expect to hear a lot less dog-whistle rhetoric out of them.
2) Links, even longstanding and well-documented links, to dodgy movements aren't necessarily the problem everyone hopes/fears them to be. Remember Jeremiah Wright? Lots of connections, went back years, all turned out to be pretty irrelevant both to Obama's electability and to his governance.

Bachmann is changing her tune and avoiding the embarrassing questions (will you obey your husband as a President as you say a wife should do?). She danced around the question on meet the press and instead looked very presidentiable.
Same for Perry in his boots and big hair, shaking hands and assuring that medicare will be strong and available for future generations. Very slick.
Only Obama looked exasperated and made dull canned teleprompter speeches.