Which Republican presidential canidate would you want operating on your child's brain?

[krispos42]

I don't know about you, but I get a little tired of things like "Which presidential candidate would you like to have a beer with?", or "have a Memorial Day barbeque with?", or some other test of the candidate's marketing skills.

Let's get down to brass tacks. You child, say, a three-year-old, has a brain tumor. It can be cut out without damaging the brain, but the operation is tricky and the skills exacting. Endurance is required, because the operation takes many hours to complete. Say, 4 to 8 hours.

If the surgeon screws up, your toddler could be dead or severely brain-damaged

Assuming that instead of politics, each one had started careers in medicine. Based on what you know on how they act, think, and talk, estimated IQs, and competence in general, who do you want rummaging around your child's brain with a scalpel? I think that running the most powerful nation on Earth should require at least that much trust, don't you?

These names are Republican in alphabetical order, based on the candidates asked about in the most recent Iowa poll. I substituted unranked Ron Paul for some guy named John Cox just because of Ron Paul's recent truth-blitz during the debate and his appearence on "Real Time" last night.

I did two of these, one for each party because I know that pretty much everybody on the DU would pick ANY Democrat over the most qualified Republican. Here's a chance to rate the other side, especially for lurking Freeper types.

<edit: on reader suggestion, I enhanced the question>

[JohnLocke]

1. Ron Paul; he's an MD.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Ron Paul is an MD.

:shrug:

[JI7]

3. i would pick Ron Paul over even the Dem Candidates

based on this question.

[monktonman]

4. Rudy.

If he botched the job
he would somehow connect it to 911
and we'd all feel better.

[krispos42]

5. They'd ALL connect it to 9-11! But Rudy...

Rudy would make a hundred million bucks off of it with private consulting!