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If you drive across the country and talk to Republicans along the way it is startling the differences in priorities and isssues. Ohio is completely different from California. It is the candidates that can best articulate the unifying ideological bridges that will win. Generally, these are low taxes, strong defense and small government.

I am astounded that some would label Hagel a RINO. He is the origional Republican. There is a deep streak of midwestern isolationism inherent in his votes but it is not born of the left. It may ally itself with the left at times but it is completely different, influenced more by religion than politics.

That is how different the Republican Party is. It is difficult to pull everyone together and no one can have everything that they want. If the one issue voters think that they are going to scuttle the Republican ticket this year and walk back in in four years and dictate the candidate of their choosing, they are very wrong. Duncan Hunter would get no more votes four years from now than he did this year.