[PlainOleAmerican]

Conservatives are running scared. They believe that American voters won’t elect real conservatives, so they nominate moderates like Rudy as someone “better than the alternative.”

(They could be right about that, BTW) Then the rest of us find ourselves stuck with voting against the alternative, like we did against Gore in 2000 and against Kerry in 2004.

Very few voted FOR Bush. Most of us voted against the alternative.

If Giuliani is nominated, we will face the same choice in 2008, only Rudy is left of Bush.

Conservatives need to take back their party, no doubt about it.

But they won't do it with someone like Ron Paul, who is left of every candidate but Kookoocinich on national security.

[tacticalogic]

Conservatives are running scared. They believe that American voters won’t elect real conservatives, so they nominate moderates like Rudy as someone “better than the alternative.”

Then they try to convince people who want a "real conservative" to vote for that he is one, and start defining "conservative" down to accomplish it.