The folks talking about the appointment of judges gave me some food for thought.
As others have pointed out, you can cherrypick the “conservative” parts of each candidate left and have a decent candidate. But each on his own? Hard to compute.
However there are really 3 big issues to me.
1) If the “big thing” goes down with Iran which one wouldn’t freak out? I would rank Rudy #1 there. McCain IMO would probably be better than Romney and Huckabee in that case if he isn’t too senile. But I could be convinced otherwise.
2)Illegal Immigration. I don’t trust anything any of them left have to say on this. I have a feeling what would actually happen is NOTHING..with any of them. If you put a gun to my head, I would suspect Romney MIGHT be best simply on economic reasons.
3)Judges. Which one of them is likely to appoint the most conservative judges? By default it is probably Huckabee, because of the Pro Life stance. Rudy and Romney probably aren’t going to insist on a certain level of “conservativeness” and McCain is an enigma on many different issues. The issues Huckabee is wobbly on don’t really play into a judge choice (for the most part).
So even looking at my 3 top concerns, I am still left with nothing to separate.
But one thing remains, I will vote for ANY of them over HRC.
Good analysis. I agree with all three points. Which is most important? I am having a hard time with this question because it all depends on what happens over the next 4 years and we can’t know that. Despite very strong misgivings, I find myself leaning toward Huck.