You know ... I find that entire line of argument really childish. I voted for George Bush twice and when he started talking about amnesty for illegals you better believe I started complaining.
I think Titan is completely entitled to his complaints in 2009 regardless of how the election turns out.
And I believe that going to the trouble of writing an opinion piece to try to influence the Republican base on FreeRepublic IS doing something. It's putting forth an argument which will sway others, and make in more or less difficult for someone to get the nomination. Right now there is a Rudy staffer somewhere trolling FR and realizing that they had better start reacting to all this animosity on the right or they are going to be in trouble.
That is precisely what I'm hoping for. I want his people up late figuring out how they're going to get my vote. And at the same time, I want people like Newt, and Hunter reading FR and thinking to themselves that there might be room to run right of Rudy. I want the whole of political discourse pulled further to the right, and this piece does that very thing (IMHO).
This is the time to talk about what we stand for (if we still stand for anything at all) and not the time to blindly pick the favored horse just because he's the favorite.
And if Rudy thinks he can tell us all to go screw and still win, then it's RUDY who is handing the country to another Clinton, and not people like titan.
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You nailed it!