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Where in my post of this: “This place seems intent on becoming an echo chamber for unelectable candidates (shades of Alan Keyes in 2000)” would you possibly read into the crap you posted?

Crap? My question was reasonably polite and you refer to perjoratives. Seems I've struck a nerve.

There are criteria for what constitutes a candidate who is "unelectable" in your opinion that I chose to explore. One of the chief distinctions between the candidate you consider "electable" and those you oppose is support for abortion. Further, you decried banning MiaT on that criterion alone (I question whether it was the sole determinant), which indicates that you consider the issue important. I therefore asked a perfectly logical pair of questions which I think will expose you as either opposed to any candidate who is opposed to abortion, or are willing to vote for a conservative despite disagreement, which indicates that a conservative is not as "unelectable" as you deem.

Alan Keyes was indeed unelectable, not because of his positions but because of his strident and condescending demeanor. Fred Thompson hardly fits that mold.