[RangerM]

IOW, anybody else will lose in November, no matter whom the Dems nominate.

I can respect your support of Thompson, but language like this is a bit over the top.

Especially when you consider that every national poll shows that McCain is the only one that would beat the Dems (in a theoretical match up).

[aj7360]

Especially when you consider that every national poll shows that McCain is the only one that would beat the Dems (in a theoretical match up). Polls taken now mean little.

Look how many polls concerning the primaries have been wrong. Most have been fairly accurate, but enough have been wrong to make them suspect.

As a Republican nominee emerges and as more becomes known about Hillary, I think those polls will change.

Yes, McCain does look more electable, but I think that any strong Republican can beat her...

... especially FRED!

(if he can win!)

[McGruff]

every national poll shows that McCain is the only one that would beat the Dems (in a theoretical match up).

That is your weakness my friend. You worship polls that can be manipulated. As for voting for Sen. McCain. Only if the alternative is Satan.

[Camel Joe]

I support the ENTIRE Constitution and therefore cannot support McCain. End of story, perhaps a term for Hillary that is just as successful as Jimmeh Cahrters is what we need to point us in the right direction again.

[Daveinyork]

“I can respect your support of Thompson, but language like this is a bit over the top.”

I disagree. The last Republican moderate to win election was Ike, or maybe you could include Nixon, who always ran as a conservative, even if he didn’t govern that way. Bush 41 won because it was thought that he’d be continuing Reagan’s work. He lost because he governed as a moderate. In 1996, the Republicans eschewed the conservative Phil Gramm, for the “electable” moderate Dole.

Bush 43 realized that he needed to mobilize the conservative base in order to win. The undecided’s are either too few, or don’t vote. Even Dems realize that they need to shift to the right to win national general elections.

Any Republican candidate for pres. who does not mobilize the conservative base will lose, and right now the conservative base is angry at McCain, and skeptical of Huck. They could be defeated in embarrassing landslides, because conservatives as a group are angry and impatient, and we realize that a moderate, in Washington, DC, governs as a liberal, making a Huck or Mac Presidency no better than a Democrat.

It is an observable trend that almost everyone who goes to Washington, DC who is not a strong conservative, will become more liberal over time. That Thompson has done the opposite is to his credit, if he is sincere. He may not win the general election, but I think he has a much better chance than anyone else the GOP is fielding.

[SuziQ]

Especially when you consider that every national poll shows that McCain is the only one that would beat the Dems (in a theoretical match up).

Didn't those same polls say the same thing about Rudy last year? I don't adjust my life, or my beliefs, to what the lastest polls say, especially since they are only designed to reflect what the news has been hammering the previous week.