Let's be sure to turn the White House back to the Demos by
going too far right.
There is not going to be a truly conservative or truly liberal
president for many years. The important votes are near the center of the two parties. It a fact.
I agree with you. Let the Congress and hopefully Senate be more right of center, but Guiliani is definately left of center.
Political Fallacy #42 - The GOP can't elect too conservative of a candidate.
Fact - If voters see no discernable difference between two candidates, they aren't motivated to vote. Example-Bush's victory. Several million new voters saw that W was a better man than Kerry and turned out to vote. Another example-Ronald Reagan.
Giuliani is as liberal as Hillary on many issues. He's a good man but can serve us better elsewhere. Frist-he's conservative enough but he's about as exciting as the owner's manual of a 1983 Ford Escort. McCain-well...a McCain/Sanford ticket might work as much as I hate to admit it. However, with all this immigration crap lately, we might wanna find a good dark-horse candidate to address this issue (Tancredo, Inhofe) or at least as a Veep.
I agree wholeheartedly. The nation truly is divided. We probably, as a whole, are center-right. However, people would elect a center-left candidate as well. The American electorate does not want to vote for a national candidate that doesn't have the word "center" in their political beliefs somehow. In the next 20 years, the United States will not have a candidate that is further to the left than Bill Clinton or further to the rigth than George W. Bush. We ought to remember that when we nominate our candidate in the primaries. I guarantee the Democrats learned their lesson with John Kerry.
Now, now; let's not bring facts into this.
When, other than 1964 has that ever happened?????