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And this is the funny part, because the Republican candidate you'll rally behind will be either Mitt or Rudy---two people who are treated as communist scum around here. So, in effect, who the GOP will be pitting against a confirmed liberal POS, Hillary Clinton, will be a person FR has been trashing since 2006 for being a confirmed liberal POS.

That assumes Romney or Giuliani is the Republican nominee. I don't think they will be. Right now, name recognition, personal appearances and saturation TV ads in Iowa and New Hampshire are keeping Romney and especially Rudy, at or near the top of most polls. I believe that will come to a quick end once actual Republicans start casting their votes in the primary contests. Most GOP primary voters will be hard-core FR-style conservatives, not the apathetic, "I guess I gotta pick someone" citizen that votes in the general election. They are not likely to be voting for 'liberal' candidates like Romney or Rudy. I know I won't. Still, on balance and if it ever comes to that, Rudy Giuliani or even Mitt Romney is far superior to a Hillary Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama.

I could be wrong but I see Fred Thompson, perhaps Mike Huckabee, winning the early primary contests, completely contrary to what the 'pundits' predict.

It's politics. Realistically, we cannot get the 100% pure, flawless conservative candidate we want. I'm sure libertarians would have been against Ronald Reagan in 1980 and been promoting some hopeless candidate as 'more conservative'. Well, the Reagan days - great as they were - are now almost 20 years past. This is 2007. We're in a social, political and cultural war. I believe a moderately conservative candidate can beat some warmed over socialist like the vastly inferior Hillary or Obama, but the Ron Paul candidacy is simply a distraction, at best.

I could be wrong but I see Fred Thompson, perhaps Mike Huckabee, winning the early primary contests, completely contrary to what the 'pundits' predict.

Based on last night's debate, I like Huckabee a lot. But I can't see anyone on that stage except for Rudy, Mitt, or Fred drawing non-GOP votes, and that's going to be crucial come November 2008.

Honestly, I wouldn't sweat the Ron Paul candidacy so much, and I don't know why it's drawing such hostile fire here. As one of FR's long-time loserdopians, and as someone who thinks Paul's ideology is spot-on, even I realize his foreign policy is not ready for prime time.

But I wholeheartedly agree with you that just about anyone on that stage last night is better than Hitlery or Obama.