Well, winning an argument by silencing your opponent is not very classy. This is a circular firing squad and it breaks Reagan’s 11th commandment. Its sad.
The road to the nomination is an ugly one, but I am not a party to it -— I am content to wait until the first of the candidate debates to select my favorite and at this point I do not have a favorite “announced” candidate.
I am, however, hoping and humbly praying for Fred Thompson to enter the race for the GOP nomination.
I much prefer to be FOR a candidate than against his rivals, since one will eventually emerge the winner and that man will get my vote in the general election.
What is sad is to support someone that advocates breaking most the other 10 commandments.
I agree. Let's bring all idea's to the table through the debate process, then we can start gleaning our candidate.
I have faith in the American people. This idea that we have to filter out candidates before the first debate is ever held is absurd.
You're confusing conservative Republicans with Conservatives. The GOP is a centrist pro-government organization which is willing to move further left in order to maintain political power. The 11th commandment applies to those concerned about assembling winning coalitions in order to achieve those ends.
Conservatives such as those at FR aren't necessarily bound by this expedience. They're playing a longer-term game - the soul of the country. If it takes Hillary! winning a term or two in order to re-orient the GOP, then so be it.
Conservatives are playing a game of chicken with GOP leadership. They think they outnumber the potential number of Dem voters that would vote for Rudy, thereby dealing a loss to Repub hopes in 2008.
We shall see - personally, I think the smart money is on Rudy (just as it was on Arnie). The GOP will move to the left and a separate conservative movement will have to be established to continue the fight.
I think it is smart of JR to anticipate this re-alignment and establish FR as the pre-imminent forum for this movement. It's up to him if he feels like allowing continuing discussion of GOP policies.