>> Why is July 4th significant? <<
That’s the expected date of the announcement that the man many hope will be the Fredemption of the party is running.
Ah got it. Since I thought it was guys like Fred Thompson that were being dismissed in the original post (Fred has an ACU rating of 86, which means 14% of the time he’s not a conservative), I assumed a new face was coming like Tom Coburn or someone like that.