I wonder if anyone in the GOP is going to have the sense to capitalize on this and run someone for President with both a resume and the real-world experience and business knowledge to make the contrast stark. They don't need a partisan Obama-on-the-right - they need Eisenhower.

I agree, and that's the one thing that concerns me.

It's a bit like 2004, but in reverse. George W. Bush was beatable in 2004 - but the Dems ran the absolute worst candidate in John Kerry. A better candidate could have defeated Bush.