[HitmanLV]

I don't think only Rudy can beat Hilly - in fact, I don't think Hilly will even get the dem nomination.

You do raise the important issue, though, and address a vulnerability and credibility problem with myopic, one issue conservatives on the road to 2008.

That is, part of our side's argument in the period after 911 is to ask the other side to put aside it's social agenda and other issues and recognize that the most important issue is national security.

Now come 2008, some of those same people are going to raise social issues in disqualifying McCain or Rudy. The truth hurts, and the truth is that taking that posture would leave the GOP at a severe credibility loss and flatfooted going into 2008.

If the main issue for the dems, as we insisted, was national security, so should the main issue for the GOP be national security. Anything else makes us phonies.

Now, we aren't phonies.

[bybybill]

If I ran the Republican party, I`d buy time on every network, every night, and show those planes hitting the Towers. That says it all.