[Mobile Vulgus]

He certainly didn’t mean that to hold during a primary! After all, HE ran in a Primary and attacked his own opponents! The debate about candidates is perfect for the Primary.... or do you support the quashing of free speech?

[Hugin]

Reagan didn’t engage in the kind of vitriolic personal attacks on his opponents I am seeing here. He debated policies where they differed and offered his own vision for America. I can’t imagine Reagan ever saying of an opponent “He agrees with me now, but he didn’t twelve years ago, so he’s a liar. LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!”

Now I would prefer to see Fred Thompson the nominee. But IMNHO, the odds are NOBODY is going to win the nomination in the primaries. The most likely scenario is that it will end up with Rudy, Mitt, Huck, Fred and McCain each having between 10-30% of the delegates going into the convention. If these vitriolic attacks keep up nominating a candidate and uniting the party behind him will be impossible. I think it would behoove the candidates and their supporters to promote their own beliefs and agenda positively, and quit the pointless smearing of other candidates.