In 2008, the war in Iraq will still be going on. The Democrats have made it their primary focus. Let it take them all the way down to defeat.
For a wartime president, would you rather vote for a two-time Navy Cross winner and former POW? Or would you prefer to vote for a woman who claims that she once thought about joining the Marines, and whose husband has admitted in writing that he "loathes the military"?
We need John McCain. Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson can be the VP candidate. But Rudy Giuliani would nominate 40-year-old pro-abortion judges to replace John Paul Stevens and Ruth Ginsburg. He can serve us best giving stump speeches for McCain in the Blue States, and putting them into play.
"We need John McCain."
Like hell we do. McCain has betrayed the conservative cause in the Senate time and time again--and now, because it's convenient to do so in order to win the nomination, he cozies up to us and wishes us to forgive and forget. Nothing doing.
Sure he has the backing of a lot of Republican Party officials. But these are the same political hacks who insisted we run an aging Bob Dole in a year when Clinton was vulnerable. Now they want to foist McCain on us.
As for Rudy's appointing liberal judges--that's simply false, as Ted Olson has pointed out. Olson supports Rudy because he has pledged to nominate strict constructionists like Roberts and Alito.