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I will vote for who ever the Repubs nominate

That is a dangerous mind set.

If the GOP nominated someone with the philosophy of David Duke, would you vote for him? I doubt that, you're smarter than that and so are most Republicans.

However, the criteria for who we vote for to be our President is quite honestly NOT the party label that a candidate may be sporting, our criteria should be WHICH candidate is going to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution of the United States.

In addition, We The People need to be examining the candidates to determine their moral fiber and their suitability to be President of the United States.

America elected President Horndog in 1992 AND in 1996, and the moral fallout from that exercise in foolishness is still being felt throughout the land.

Quite honestly we elected a President in 2000 that most Republicans believed to be a conservative but that word 'compassionate' preceding 'conservative' should have been the first alarm bell.

Rush Limbaugh has made the comparison between the current Bush Administration and the Nixon Administration, not in the areas of scandal, but in the areas of attempting to make nice-nice with, and placate, the natural enemies of America on the left end of the political spectrum. The truth is, this Administration has abdicated any claim to be 'conservative' when we have such atrocities signed into law like the 'No Child Left Behind Act' which is nothing but rehashed LBJ-Great-Society style thinking that the federal government can 'cure' what ails American students. That is a lie, the 'Department of Education' is essentially nothing but a bag o' money and a megaphone for the NEA, and everyone knows it. And do I have to remind anyone about McCain-Feingold and the unconstitutional assault on the First Amendment? Our President signed that disgraceful legislation into law, perhaps thinking the Supreme Court would overturn it, but that was naive optimism at best, crass and failed political calculation at the worst.

And don't let even one person accuse ME of bashing President Bush, I have stood by my President even when I had to hold my nose because he IS the President even when I don't agree with him, and my votes for him in 2000 and in 2004 GIVE me the right to criticize him when I think he's off track.

Rudy Guiliani was a great mayor of New York City, cleaned it up right nice, as a prosecutor, his work was pretty top notch. As a cheerleader at the '04 GOP convention, his speech was a barn burner. Does that make him presidential material?

No. Based on his experience alone, he is in the same category as Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The fact is, there are two Republican Parties, one is the country-club, elite northeastern, Ivy League, big-government Rockefeller-style party, and then there is the party of Reagan/Goldwater ('64 vintage) which IS the party that won two of the largest landslides of the late 20th Century. And those landslides were won by a conservative Republican at the top of the ticket.

The worst thing that the GOP can do to conservative Republicans in this next election cycle (or ANY cycle) is to do what the Democrats have traditionally done to black Democrat voters in EVERY election cycle:

Take them for granted.

Your otherwise good post has this piercing lie .... No. Based on his experience alone, he is in the same category as Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

The fact is, there are two Republican Parties, one is the social right who is so absorbed with guns and abortion they do not know how to read a balance sheet and they cannot be trusted with the checkbook for a very long time.

The other is Rockefeller Republicans who are weak on social issues but are Yankee skinflints.

After blowing some 2-3 trillion dollars and getting absolutely nothing accomplished despite having all three branches of government...regarding ...tax reform....tort reform...entitlement reform....runaway spending...the social right has blown it....it is time for the Yankees to take the wheel.