I’m not claiming Thompson is a Buckley conservative. What he is is a guy who is legitimately conservative enough to get the base excited and that can probably woo the squishy middle as well. I think he can probably pull a lot of Liebermann style democrats and be the first president since Reagan to govern with a real mandate.
The problem with Rudy is that there are too many of us that won’t vote for him no way, no how. I’ll immanentize the eschaton first.
(I’m not arguing with you, just chose you as a vehicle to comment on some things I’ve seen in the last 30 posts or so.)
I’m with you, Rudy supports infringement upon constitutionally protected natural rights, federal funding of abortion and seems to have a penchant for consolidating and taking executive power to the edge. I’m not going to support that, voting for the dem candidate in the general election would produce the same results. The only difference is the WOT but I’d rather die fighting jihadi’s than die in a dirty crappy govt. healthcare monopoly run Walter Reed style hospital, broke from taxes, and deprived of my liberty.