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I was listening to the Mark Levine show tonight and Levine mentioned what I already knew about Guiliani being liberal on social issues. While I'm certainly grateful for everything he did after 9/11 and the time he spent to campaign with Republican canidates across the country in this past election, I couldnt vote for him. Right now Mitt Romney is my first choice out of the Republicans running in the 2008 primary. There are some who think Romney isn't conservative enough but compared to Guiliani and McCain I think he is our best option. Guiliani's positions on abortion and homosexuality will prevent him from gaining a strong following in the south, much of the midwest and Great Plains region. I think that Romney would have a better chance of carrying most or all of the current red states. However some people think that some Southern Baptists may have a problem with him being a Mormon. I hope that his religion does not become an obstacle to his success in the primaries. I read an interesting article recently in the Wall Street Journal where it said that some Mormons believe that Romney may be the one to fullfill the "white horse" prophecy by the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith. In the 1840s, Smith predicted that in the distant future all of America would be in turmoil and would be rescued by a Mormon. I hope that by 2008 Romney's popularity will exceed that of Guiliani and McCain.

Thats interesting. I had my own life saved by a mormon once. They are intensely loyal people. And i know would protect this country better than a lot of others could or would. And they're more moral than a lot of Southern Baptists I know anyway. ha ha sorry, its true.

Personally, I think the focus should be on getting the House back. If we focus on that, the Presidency will fall into place. I know that seems backwards but then again, everything is backwards these days. Focus on the roots.. and the tree will grow. Roots roots roots I tell ya!

Your sentiments mirror my own, both morally and electorally. I'm not really crazy about Romney but I can honestly say that he is the ONLY one I would vote for out of the current crop. A practicing Mormon is to be preferred over a practicing secularist any day of the week - because core beliefs guide actions. They cannot be separated. The business about separating religion from public life is a grotesque distortion - how one conducts himself in public and private says more about his religion than do his words.

Others here are assigning equal weight to all of the issues, accusing conservatives of acting like little kids carrying their ball home. I do not assign equal weighting to something that might cause economic inconvenience as to a practice that has taken 49 million innocent lives, or one which challenges the definition of the unit that comprises the very glue that holds ANY civilized society together.