I expect to see all the [insertname here]Bots all start professing about their candidate now.
"...we can ALL support."
Agreed. Thompson is also my preference so far....but he's going to fail for the social conservatives because of his skirt chasing.
Point is, this trend is divergent.
If he's someone we can "all" support, then he's a mealy-mouthed milquetoast like George Allen that was brought down by a college kid with a camera.
If he's a firebrand conservative, and a real human being, then one of the "coalition" be it social or guns, whatever, will have a problem with him.
As Tom DeLay just said on Rush's interview:
DELAY: "...Liberals, by the virtue of their philosophy, are collectivists. So it's easy to pull everybody together and work together. You've got abortionists working on labor policy. You've got labor unions working on environmental policy. Conservatives, by their philosophy, are individualists. They create an organization to protect against gun control, but you can't get the gun owners to work against abortions. Shoot, during the energy bill in 2005, I couldn't get the mining association to work with the chemical association. (Laughing.)"