[George W. Bush]

Nice wishful thinking, but it won't happen.

As I've said many times, I'm interested in Fred running. We need the strongest electable conservative who isn't named Giuliani.

We've never seen Thompson in a national race. And while the Howard Baker political machine in TN is alive and well, it has never been tested nationally and produced a positive result. Make no mistake, the TN GOP elite has been hungry for decades to put a son of Tennessee in the White House.

I think a lot will depend on what the surviving GOP governors do and who party leaders support in the fall.

We need to recognize that Giuliani will almost certainly score a 30%-35% vote, no matter what. So we need to get serious about a candidate to make sure Rudi can't slip between two or more conservative candidates and grab the nomination when he is the candidate that 65%-70% of the party rejects.

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“We need to recognize that Giuliani will almost certainly score a 30%-35% vote, no matter what. So we need to get serious about a candidate to make sure Rudi can’t slip between two or more conservative candidates and grab the nomination when he is the candidate that 65%-70% of the party rejects.”

Why do I feel like you and I are passengers on the Titanic and you are pointing out an iceberg, saying “You know what a hunk of ice like that could do to the hull of this ship?”

We need to recognize that the conservative movement is in deep doo-doo when half the senate GOP caucus can’t bring itself to support the Vitter amendment, which simple asked to strike manesty from the senate immigration bill.

We can’t even get together to unite against that, how can we unite to stop Rudy, especially in the most wide-open race since open primaries were in existence?