[futureceo31]

Middle of the road wins presidential elections. Thats fact. So you have to compromise to win elections, especially with a liberal media against us. I was so pissed off today with CNN that identified Move-on as an "organization" when they were talking about its sponsorship of Al Bored.... IF it had been Judicial watch, we would have the "right-wing" "hard ring-wing" and every other conservative term thrown right after it.

[Pubbie]

"Middle of the road wins presidential elections."

Nonsense - Reagan never campaigned as anything but a Strong Conservative.

[wardaddy]

Is FR middle of the road?

I had hoped not. I had hoped we were the base.

I understand pragmatism...did a few term papers on it for my Political Theory Major but if W did not have this war in which he is doing splendidly btw, we would be in trouble.

If we have to become Dems (CFR, AWB ban, Education and Medicare bills, and now Migra-Amnesty) then what is the point?.....

I am hanging in there domestically since there is no option and Rove knows this all too well but we are going to coopt ourselves into simply Moderate Dem Lite if we don't stop.

It's a mixed bag and yes it sure beats Hildabeast as POTUS but it ain't victory...not to me.

[TASMANIANRED]

Recent history bears out that the US electorate prefers governors over senators. They want someone with executive experience. Sorry being senator and brown nosing and making deals with the enemy doesn't cut it.
gwb -gov texas
wjc gov arkansas 2 terms
ghb- vp
rr-gov ca 2 terms
jc-gov ga
gf-senate not elected
rn-vp
lbj-senate
jfk -senate
We haven't had a senator since Ford took over for Nixon.
Since Regan, we have had 3 southern governors.


Santorum might do for vp but no executive experience yet.

I would like to submit Ernie Fletcher Ky for consideration.
Ky senate, tossed the Democrats out of the Governership for the first time in about 40 years. He was a fighter pilot , a MD and a minister. Sews up the military vote, the Southern vote and the religious right vote.

He has a few years to prove himself capable especially since he has a Herculean job of cleaning out the Stygian stables that years of 1 party rule has left in the state.

I would have no problem pairing Fletcher with JC Watt, Tom Delay, Rick Santorum, Miguel Estrada.

The Republicans are in the cat bird seat. They have a rich pool of talent on deck. They just need a little development.

The democrats are suck city. Their brightest hope is Hillary and she is going to be 4 years uglier in 2004.
They have no one on deck other than John Edwards. All their standard socialists are heading the way of Fidel. Elderly, dried up and uncarismatic. They might be electable in a regional election but they don't have the right stuff. Look at plaster face Pelosi, pumpkin head Kennedy, sad Daschle, the fossil that was recruited from NJ. There just isn't the energy to light a flashlight in any of them.

The Breck boy has managed not to say anything stunningly stupid, unlike Dean, Kerry, and Clark. They have discredited themselves and are political toast. Edwards has the face but he has all the carisma of warm spit.

I thought after Nixon that the Republican party would be washed up for another 50 years but it hasn't been the case.
4 out of the last 6 presidential elections. The house of representatives, the Senate, the majority of governerships in the state.

The future belongs on the conservative side of the isle.