[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I guess we're headed for a Democrat presidency next year.

Yes, we are, if we don't unite and get behind a solid conservative who can unite the party - who can appeal to all three wings. The only one who can is Fred. Duncan Hunter can't - shoot, he can't even break out of the 1% barrier in a state like Iowa where the GOP is more conservative than the national average. Duncan, unfortunately, only really appeals to DefCons, and they can't win alone. Huckabee largely appeals only to SoCons, and they can't win alone. Mitt appeals mostly to FisCons - and they can't win alone either.

[Owen]

Your guy will win if he earns it.

Period.

He won’t if he doesn’t. It’s a trial by fire. It requires enormously hard work on many different fronts.

People will unite behind the candidate that earns their support via winning all the battles required for the nomination. Such a candidate deserves that support because this process is monumentally difficult. The victor will have survived the trial by fire.

[WFTR]

I'm less a "FisCon" than anything else, and I still see Mitt Romney as being a better choice than Fred Thompson. I'd rather see the party unite behind someone with a record of accomplishing things as an executive, and I don't see Fred Thompson as being that much more conservative than anyone else. In any case, good luck in your primary activities.

Bill