Here is the man the Republicans would really like to nominate. A visionary, a man ahead of his time, the true spiritual progenitor of Fred, Mitt, Rudy, and the other dwarfs. For some background here's an actual professor:
Dan Carter, a professor of history at Emory University:
"It is difficult to conceive of what American politics of the 1960s, 70s and 80s would be like without George Wallace," Carter said in a 1994 interview. "I don't think there's a single issue that Nixon and Reagan talk of in terms of social issues that he doesn't get to first." In this view, Wallace's presidential campaigns prefigured, in an especially abrasive way, a large portion of the country's politics of later years. Wallace was the first major political figure in his generation to exploit the antipathy toward Washington that went on to be a prime force in politics from coast to coast.
He was also surely the first in his generation to galvanize the white, working-class voters later labeled as Reagan Democrats. And he was the first nationally known politician of that generation to put such raucous emphasis on race, crime, welfare and other issues that still loom large, if less crudely, on the political landscape.
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