As an American voter, I've enjoyed and appreciated the sentiments expressed in this thread. I would only add a few brief comments:

1. It all depends on the economy. If it improves significantly during the next year, the president will be hailed as a hero and will be unbeatable in 2012.

2. I became convinced a long time ago that "Christian Dominionism" is little more than an attempt to sell books to the gullible. The US constitution is exclusive to any such system of government. We have had three fundamentalist Protestant presidents since FDR, Truman, Carter, and Clinton, and no threat to America's religious - or non-religious - neutrality was seen. To use a baseball analogy, to score a run, you first have to reach first base, and to reach first base, you first have to get the first thousandth of an inch down the first base line. "Dominionism" has not done so nor will it any time in the foreseeeable future.

3. The candidate most likely able to beat Obama on the issues is Huntsman, whose chances of being nominated are slight.

4. Americans do not like extremists. If America should somehow veer toward the right, it will almost immediatelty begin veering, or at least wandering, back toward the left.