After reading all the nastiness about each and every Republican candidate here on FR, I have come to the conclusion that Obama is the best this nation has to offer. Thanks FR for being so enlightening.
There is no doubt that the so-called conservative movement as it exists today thrills on eating its own. Democrats don't beat us, we do. The silly attacks from the Right are more damaging to any potential conservative candidate than anything coming from the Left. Nobody can survive the primary with anything approaching a shot at the general election. They are absolutely picked apart, and the opponent needs to do nothing to respond to them.
Of all the dopey comments in this vein which I see thrown around FreeRepublic, my personal favourite is the one declaring that because a certain candidate is less than absolutely perfect by some person's standards they simply won't vote at all if they are the candidate. Of course, this means they would rather have Obama than the less-than-perfect-conservative. That makes sense. When Newt takes a less than perfect view of abortion, which is to say a position 99% better than Obama's, these people then say they would rather take the latter. Ending almost all abortions is somehow terrible when compared to not only supporting them, but extending them beyond the womb and paying for them with my money. Only somebody on serious medication could hold such a position seriously.