Posted on 01/24/2008 4:55:53 AM PST by Scarchin
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If McCain loses in Florida, the Republicans may well be headed to a deadlocked race and convention. And history teaches us that the likeliest candidate to emerge in that scenario is someone like Warren G. Harding: the prototypical, less-than-stellar candidate to which conventions turn when the going gets rough.
This year's Harding? Believe it or not (are you sitting down?), despite the fact that he's withdrawn from the race, is Fred Thompson.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
You’re correct and I didn’t say Paul’s foreign policy is realistic by any means. His view of our State Dept’s idiocy toward tossing our money around the globe SHOULD be taken seriously, however.
Aside from his foreign policy, his views and stances are superior to anyone left in the race.
Tom McClintock knows it too. McClintock would be a far better candidate than the bag of marbles we’re attempting to choose from at the moment (and that’s not saying much).
Things change, and trends cannot be denied. The 100%'ers are going to be perpetually unhappy. They can be no other way.
Politics is a consensus sport. There are dozens if not hundreds of issues, and frankly, even I cannot remember anytime in the past when my pick during the primaries made it to the general. Not once, not even with Bush. (only the second terms of Nixon, Bush I and II.)
Bags of marbles they may be, but that is how we do it, and have always done it.
(.....FRedhead here)
Leni
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