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Newt didn't endorse Rudy. But Ronald Reagan is dead. And I'm not about to roll over and support a liberal to be the party standard bearer. I think all this talk about Rudy being the savior of the GOP is pathetic nonsense.

No one really believes that Rudy is anyone's savior. Nor does anyone expect you to roll over and do anything. However, a little intellectual honesty from your quarter would be nice. That would entail admitting that things are looking better for Rudy than you personally like.

I promise you that if Hunter starts looking really strong, I'll be the first to admit it, my personal feelings be damned. But, I was raised to be honorable like that. I had good parents.

>>>>However, a little intellectual honesty from your quarter would be nice. That would entail admitting that things are looking better for Rudy than you personally like.

Okay....in my best Brando-Godfather.

Melas, I'm always intellectally honest. Even with you. So, please don't insult me.

Rudy is riding HIGH! Yeehaa!

I call upon FReeper Clemenza. He offered a recent analysis of what I see as a fair and honest political assessment of reality around this forum lately. Allow me to post his conclusions. They're brief.

The only people on this site supporting Mayor Linguine D---are 9/11 fetishists, Hate Hillary Fetishists, celebrity worshippers, and coastal pseudocons.

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WOOHOO!

Happy now?

Rudy is a dud, Rudy is a flake! Rudy will not get the GOP nomination! Take that to the bank, pilgrim.

That would entail admitting that things are looking better for Rudy than you personally like.

Oh, Rudy has a fair shot of winning the nomination. He can make focus-group tested utterances to try and put people at ease about his liberal past.

And he can wrap the mantle of 9-11 around his shoulders to deflect criticism of actions such as taking guns away from long-term permit holders.

And he can exploit the front-loaded primary schedule to use money and bull**** to knock out rivals - especially since the GOP, more and more, is driven by a core of big-money donors in the primary stages.

But none of that can overcome his weakness in the general election if he were to win the nomination. He will not be able to hold the party together if he wins - he just has too many liberal and statist views to run away from. And he cannot make up for erosion of support from the base by getting votes elsewhere. He cannot entice pro-life Catholic Dems to cross over. He cannot entice pro-gun Dems to cross over. And a pro-war pubbie cannot make much headway leftward when opposition to the Iraq War increases dramatically the further left one goes.