Reluctantly, very reluctantly if it is Rooti, support the nominee. Staying home or going third party is just giving the vote to the Democrats by default. I think we are going to end up with Fred, Mitt or Duncan. McCain is just too scary and Rudy is just to left. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Hmmm... stop and think for a moment.
The first primaries are getting close, and for whatever reasons, good or bad, Huckabee seems to be surging in Iowa and South Carolina, and he may even overtake Romney in both New Hampshire and Michigan. If these primaries were still months off, we might discount the polls. But they are not, and so we ignore the polls at our own peril.
If Romney can't beat Huckabee in at least two of these contests, he is out of the race, and once again proves that "vanity candidacies" - that is, those financed with one's own millions - are often millions down the drain.
Rudy's going to win Florida and the blue/purple states in the Super primary. In the southern states, it will be a slugfest between Huckabee, Thompson, and McCain splitting the hard-conservative votes, with Rudy taking his share of the Republican moderates and northern transplants.
Hunter and Tancredo (who are both solidly on the right side of the issues) won't be factors in ANY of these races. Got to face reality.
After one of the most auspicious beginnings in recent years (at least amongst conservatives), Fred Thompson seems to be fading, fading, fading. Too bad.
Huckabee may be nothing more than a flash in the early pan, but if he can win three of the four early races, watch out.
Even if Rudy doesn't win everywhere, he will run well enough in enough states to either lead in the delegate count or be a contender.
And FreeRepublic will still be here... :)
That's what I think, and I could very well be wrong.
- John