2. former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia

3. former Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas

4. former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida

5. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice

6. US Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania

7. former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York

8. former Governor George Pataki of New York

9. former Governor Tom Kean of New Jersey

10. US Senator Susan Collins of Maine

11. US Senator Joe Lieberman (I) of Connecticut

12. US Senator Jay Rockefeller (D) of West Virginia

13. Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut

14. former Congressman Charles F. Bass of New Hampshire

15. Congresswoman Mary Bono of California

16. former US Senator John Danforth of Misouri

17. US Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota 

18. former Ambassador Alan Keyes of Maryland

19. Physican and anti-terrorism expert Hugh Cort of Alabama

20. State Senator Jack Barnes of New Hampshire