If you read earlier in this thread, you saw me apologize to someone for my heated rhetoric. I support Fred Thompson as a pragmatist. Hunter or Tancredo would be my choices, except after following politics for forty years I know that the lower house doesn’t produce presidents. It’s hard enough for the upper house to do it.
So I support Fred Thompson, whom I could nitpick about the twenty percent of the time he’s done something I don’t like. He’s electable. He’s got the intangibles, and I want to win.
Now your guy has none of that. He’s an eighty percenter the other way. We start with that as a baseline. On every major issue he is a Democrat, not a Republican, unless you consider Lincoln Chafee and Susan Collins to be the mainstream of our party.
I want you to note that I have shown you no hostility. For months I have posted similar explanations of why we don’t want Rudy. I get one sentence answers. mostly insults, calling me a nazi or an “all or nothing” or a “wingnut,” which is what they call us at DU.
Rudy is a liberal. I will fight hard to keep him from winning the nomination. A choice between a bronchitis and pneumonia does not appeal to me.
Shout it from the mountain tops and here on FR too. I agree. The fat lady has not even arrived at the theatre much less begin to warm up.