Extremely good analysis...and I guess I am in Group 3.
FRED THOMPSON is the only realisitc candidate in this group and unification of our party will require a great deal of work. At some point, we all must let go of our “individual” choice and unite behind the one candidate that will not only hold the White House, but pull Conservatives back into the House and Senate.
DemocRATS have given us a great opportunity, will we take advantage of that opportunity, or blow it by electing another RINO?
AMEN!!!
There are only three solid conservatives in the eight, Thompson, Hunter and Tancredo.
Thompson is the only one of the three who can win.
“FRED THOMPSON is the only realisitc candidate in this group and unification of our party will require a great deal of work.”
I believe Thompson (or Hunter) are probably the most balanced (being conservative in all areas). However, I’m not sure they can even pull the party together. The coalition between pure economic conservatives and pure moral (AKA social) conservatives has always been a tenuous one. The moral conservatives are now the true base of the party, and Huckabee’s current rise is an indication of this. The economic conservatives really hate men like Huckabee and only cooperated as long as the GOP nominee wasn’t too morally conservative. Now that the real deal moral conservative (what the base has wanted) is currently rising, it is urking the heck out of them and the libertarian faction in the GOP.
I am starting to think that the GOP tent has gotten too big. Goldwater types and moral conservative types have got to duke this out and see who is going to dominate.