Nah - it's actually better for FR, because all of our various angers are pointed better in the shorter term at buttheads like the US Senate. 2008's season is still a ways off.
Giuliani's campaign is doing fine, outside of FR. His press folks have a bit of a tin ear to events, but that's above my paygrade.
Be well.
“Nah - it’s actually better for FR”
I was being kind by using the word “music”. What I was referring to was “liberal noise”. I absolutely disagree that FR is better off having his supporters still here, just not vocalizing their support of a Liberal. I wish every damn one of them would OPUS out. Weak links in a chain we’re all part of, and if we’re going to make it through the long haul, there is no reason to think FR is better off with weak links waiting to start breaking when they’re needed the most.
Rudy won’t be getting the nomination. Being certain of this, it still bothers me that there exists this mindset (not you per se’) that oh...it was all just a mis-understanding. Actually it’s been crystal clear. Negotiate and or compromise your conservative principles with thoughts of some fictitious victory on a front-runner who history says never had a chance, or preserve conservatism.
If someone truely believed he was the only hope to beat Hillary, then I can’t “accept” their principle negotiating, but at least I can better understand their motives. Problem is, most really didn’t have a major problem with his Liberal past. How can a conservative say they could rely on that person to fight for conservative values? It just doesn’t wash. We’ve got Liberal’s “inside the gates” as Jim Robinson puts it.