[onyx]

From everything I have read, Rudy would make a good CIC, but like I have previously posted, I do NOT have a candidate at this point.

I do know from the threads I've seen, that no one backer of one candidate has clean hands when it comes to bashing other candidates.

Every poster seem to have one that they "just won't vote for" --- well, how great is that? Say hello to President Democrat with that thinking.

I will vote for and support the GOP nominee regardless.

[dirtboy]

From everything I have read, Rudy would make a good CIC

Only if he wins the White House.

Can you honestly believe that someone who is pro-choice, pro-gun-control, pro-amnesty and pro-gay-marriage can possibly hold the party together in this day and age?

Can you honestly believe that Rudy, with his personal baggage and problems with associations with people like Bernie Kerik, can possibly withstand the Clinton slime machine?

Can you honestly believe that the way to convince social conservatives to vote for Rudy is to tell them that their beliefs are wrongheaded? And that the way to appeal to Reagan Democrats to come back to the party is to trash Reagan?

You're a lot smarter than that, onyx. I know you are being diplomatic. And I know this is a time for confusion for the GOP.

But Reagan won in 1980 by being center-right. Not on the far left of the GOP.

Santorum got creamed in Pennsylvania because the Dems finally got smart enough to run a pro-lifer against him. If that doesn't tell you that the next nominee has to be pro-life, I don't know what does.

Romney is not my choice. But at least he and his people understand that bridges have to be built to the right. I have not seen that from the Rudy boosters at all. And that will be fatal if Rudy wins the nomination.

THAT is where this debate needs to head. NOT into the bizzare duality of both building Reagan up and tearing Reagan down.