John McCain, Rudy Guillani, Tommy Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Bill Frist, Sam Brownback, Chuck Hagel and Newt Gingrich

are the ten so far on the GOP side who would seek to hold the presidency for the Republicans. brownback, Hagel, Huckabee,Hunter, Thompson and Romney are relatively unknown which makes their early announcements necessary and somehwat interesting. The other names in this list are known entities and hopefully their early announcements will mean their early demise.

In these earliest days of the campaign season ( the new one, already) voters would be wise to learn all they can about the newcomers in the field. The same old- same old need not be our future.

All of us in both parties should take the early position: "WE WANT SOMEONE ELSE!!!"