The liberal policies that Hitlery or Obama or McVain or Huckfeller will enact will cause a disaster that will redound to the discredit of the party in power. Republicans will not oppose these disastrous policies if it's a Republican president, but will do so if it's a Democrat president. And taht opposition (and the fact that the Democrats will own the disaster) will bring about a Republican Congress in 2010 and a Republican Presidential victory -- with someone more conservative than any of these folks -- in 2012.
Maybe so, but by 1/1/2011 - the earliest when a POSSIBLE Republican Congress can do anything (and there's no guarantee of a repeat of 1994) - you may already have 2 or 3 new Supreme Court Justices put in place by Hillary or Obama.
Neither McCain nor Romney are my favorite people to make such a choice, or to be the CINC of our armed forces, but either of them or even Huck (again, gag me) will be better than Hillary or Obama. Some things don't depend on Congress, like Executive Orders, and some things are either irreversible (like foreign policy or defense disasters) or effectively irreversible (Supreme Court Justices - for 10-20 years, and sometimes longer).
I will fight tooth-and-claw to keep Hillary or Obama (especially Obama) out of the Oval Office. The stakes are too high, and I think that the nation will far better survive a moderate or even liberal Republican than a regime headed and staffed by the anti-American lunatics on the Left.
BTW, I'll make a gentlemen's bet with both of you that Fred Thompson will endorse the Republican Party's nominee and make some speeches on his behalf. So would Reagan, as he did in 1976. Fred understands and Reagan understood that the interests of the Republican Party - no matter how loyal you are to it and its core principles - HAVE to take a back seat to the interests of the nation. That thought is in the spirit of the Founders, who initially didn't want to allow political parties on the theory (proven by subsequent history) that people would give more loyalty to their particular party than to the country.
Sorry, I’m voting for Fred. Romney talks conservative, but when it comes down to it, he has a more liberal record than McCain. It’s like being forced to choose between spoiled milk and rotten meat.
On the Republican side, that is true. The only good food was thrown out by South Carolina. However, the Dems offer you a choice between strychnine and cyanide (arsenic having left the race earlier this week). You can recover from a dose of food poisoning, but not from real poison - and I think that the analogy applies to our political situation.
Please, both of you, think about it.