I am astounded that so many people fail to grasp the lessons from Dole "loosing". (It is getting to the point that I can't tell how many people intentionally misspell that word as a Freeper joke and how many of them really do misspell it.) They seem to think he lost simply because he was the "establishment" candidate that was foisted upon us. He may very well have been the "establishment" candidate. But he lost because he was an old, uncharismatic guy running against a charismatic guy presiding over a relatively good economy. I don't know enough about Hunter or Tancredo to know if they have charisma. I do know that Newt has all the charisma of a newt. And if people think he's going to win the general election, simply because articulates conservative issues, they are deluded. Now, Fred Thompson just might have the right combination. I'd like to see if he gets any traction.
As I said in another post it is the most conservative wing of the democrat party who participate in the primaries and therefore the freepers should be very relaxed and not that nervous about Giuliani or Romney because if Duncan Hunter is the one who they want to be the nominee, then he is going to be the nominee and no force on this planet can prevent this form happening. The most conservative wing of the party is supposed to be the most informed and the most involved in politics so the Republican leadership cannot really force any candidate on them.