[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Candidates do not win by bringing opposites together, because it doesn’t happen on a large scale, like a winning presidential election.

2008 is the exception. The Republican nominee MUST win over independents, libertarians, and populists while retaining the traditional GOP base that has shrunk since 2000. Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson to a certain extent, are the only GOP candidates who can do this.

[ansel12]

” The Republican nominee MUST win over independents, libertarians, and populists while retaining the traditional GOP base”

But not opposites.

The winner will pull many, but not all from each one of those camps, here at FR for instance we are conservative independents, conservative republicans, and conservative libertarians, but (almost) none of us share anything with many, many of the Paul supporters.

That is a lot different than Paul attracting you, along with the people in the picture, and StormFront, and David Duke’s organization, and the truthers, and Hollywood leftists, the Paul phenomena is not the same and you cannot ignore the totality of the group movement that you have joined with.

[Do Be]

2008 is the exception. The Republican nominee MUST win over independents, libertarians, and populists while retaining the traditional GOP base that has shrunk since 2000. Ron Paul, and Fred Thompson to a certain extent, are the only GOP candidates who can do this.

A Thompson/Paul ticket is unbeatable.