Selection Committee - Republicans

Since the left side of the brackets are Democrats, the right side of the brackets will be Republicans (Duh!). The GOP regions will be the North region and the South region. Again, keep in mind that the selection committee can place a candidate in any region, regardless of where they are actually from.

And now the brackets:

South Region (Republicans)

#1 Mitt Romney - Romney comes from a power conference (governor) with an interesting conference and non-conference schedule. His conference schedule included running one of the most liberal, admittedly mid-sized (by population), states in the Union. He was also the Chairman of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. So, if the terrorist want to set up a global athletic competition to determine ideological superiority, Romney's our guy!

#2 John McCain - Yet another mid-major conference player who has done this before. He has experience with presidential elections (no experience actually winning them, though). He's also made a name for himself, recently, for authoring a bill condemning torture. If he's so against torture, why does he keep running for President? Still, he's well known and highly respected.

#3 Fred Thompson - A well known, no-nonsense, dynamic, experienced politician with an electrifying delivery. Oh, wait, that's what the GOP wants him to be - actually, he's a southerner with a slow, southern draw, monotone delivery and he's spent some time in a mid-major conference (US Senate). But, he's still no-nonsense and if we were electing the District Attorney for Law & Order, he'd be a shoe-in.

#4 Ron Paul - Is he Libertarian or Republican? In order to get a driver's license in Texas, he had to declare Republican. Ron Paul is the GOP answer to the quirky Dennis Kucinich - except, Ron Paul doesn't creep people out and so he's able to raise money.

North Region (Republicans)

#1 Rudolph Giuliani - On 9/11, when he was mayor of NYC (during 9/11), he made a name for himself, on 9/11, as "America's Mayor" during 9/11. Giuliani, on 9/11, was a steady leader, on 9/11, during the chaos of 9/11 and brought us up from the despair of 9/11. He's been married more times than Elizabeth Taylor (911 times). Oh yea, did I mention anniversary, birthday and the birth of all his children is 9/11?

#2 Mike Huckabee - A power-conference player (governor) who was previously best known for being a 'Biggest Loser' (he lost over 100 lbs). That means that all of the junk food in the White House will be replaced with Power Bars and rice cakes. He's also an ordained Baptist Minister. The real question becomes, what will the lobbyist bring to Huckabee's first state dinner - since there will be no wine, women or junk food.

#3 Duncan Hunter - A mid-major conference player... Normally, representatives are not mid-majors, but he's from California and they have 55 electoral votes. Aside from that, who is he again?

## Winner of Play-in

Play-in Game:

#4 Tom Tancredo - He's the guy that keeps talking about building a fence between the US and Mexico. One has to ask himself, though, if we can't hire illegal immigrates for construction jobs, who will build the fence?

#5 Sam Brownback - Arlen Spector (Senator from PA, and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman) once said that Sam wrote a movie about two homosexual cowboys who are called by G-d to become heterosexual and crusade against Stem Cell research. It was called Brownback Mountain.