There IS no other truly conservative candidate available (forget Hunter, Paul, etc.)!!

* McCain: The press and moderate Repubs love him, but they seriously underestimate how much "social conservatives" and "fundamentalists" hate him. Lesson: If you smear your own in a primary (e.g., 2004), don't consider him to ever be a viable candidate in future primaries (e.g., 2008).

* Huckabee: Loved by Religious Right and some social conservatives, but the Corporatist wing knows he doesn't know Economics from his elbow - and his overt preacher talk frankly frightens them. Mouthing the words is required, they realize, but this guy would actually walk the talk!

* Romney: Loved by the Corporatists but the fundamentalists (and social conservatives with religious bias) will never elect a Mormon.

* Guliani: Loved by authoriatrians and anyone who ever wet their pants or got aroused by the words "9/11." Hated by ... well, too many to list. Satisfyingly, his campaign appears to be in "self-destruct" mode, since he knows his appeal to the South is limited and he evidently wants to focus on the less agrarian states.

Fred Thompson ... love him or hate him - was the *only* GOP candidate who didn't alienate any of the major GOP factions. But I guess the unholy GOP coalition of Corporatists, Fundamentalists, and Social Authoritarians/ Conservatives is finally fracturing.

Good! We've seen what they can do to a country.

Due to what I now call the “Fred Thompson chicken block” on Huckabee, Thompson allowed McCain to win S.C. with an otherwise 2nd place vote count. McCain’s win placed Huckabee supporters with greater national responsibility than before to also correct the Fred Thompson “Vote Block” mayhem of South Carolina and go forward to win Florida. Now that the GOP has started eating their own for sport and the most electable candidates are defending themselves from the “no plan” “no accomplishment” competitors the last one standing may be the weakest GOP candidates.

Remember, Bob Dole and George H. Bush got hamburger because the young voters would not or can not associate with them and the same goes for McCain, not to mention the other bones in his closet. That means the democrats will win!

Not only does Huckabee need your strong support now, America needs your support of Huckabee more than ever! Don’t let the elite media get you down, that is their job. Be strong for Mike Huckabee, he needs to see our support and know we are behind him through good time and bad.

GO Huckabee! Take the fight to the “chicken blockers”!

First, they continue to view Rudy G.'s campaign as viable, although there has been no evidence of his ability to win anything other than dubious polls. Even Luntz, the pollster and former staffer of Guiliani during his previous bids has stated that he questions Rudy's strategy.

John McCain has problems of his own with winning back the hearts and minds of the true Republican base has demonstrated his ability to win a narrow victory in the only relevant primary in South Carolina.

Huckabee reportedly does not have the organization, nor the money to mount a credible National campaign.

Romney appears to be able to win anywhere no one else is willing to campaign, namely Michigan and Nevada.

And yet, they, the pundits, see this as a three-way race between McCain, Guiliani and Romney.

I truly hope that Fred continues on and demonstrates that he has the 'come back kid' stuff that others are ascribing to McCain.

Not much effort, and don't forget not much coverage from your trusted media.
Weak effort and minimal media coverage has been his undoing.

Conservative = economic despair

Liberal = economic prosperity

Perhaps if you put as much effort into getting a job as you do whining on messageboards you'd be employed. Seriously, you spam boads with repeat posts and whine cause you are unemployed? If Hillary wants a crown you seem to think you are owed a job.

If you want to have your taxes raised, told how to live, give up your way of life as you know it while both of those knucklheads live like they want to and scare you about "global warming" which is just another hoax to raise your taxes.

30 years ago we weere told we were going into an ice age... by politicians!

If you want all those things for yourself, fine, move to Mexico then, you lib freak!

RINO, RINO, RINO, RINO

This is Reaganomics. It was also famously named "Voodoo Economics" by George Bush the elder during his campaign against Reagan in 1980. It is also nonsense. How many times are rank-and-file Conservatives going to fall for this?

During the time that Reaganomics has been practiced, the American middle and lower classes have declined in the percentage of income that they earn. The top 20% is earning a much larger percentage of all American income.

Total Wealth
------– 1983 ----- 2001
Top 20% --- 83% ----- 91%
Bottom 80% - 17% ----- 09%

Now the wealthy complain that they pay too much in taxes. The top 25% pay 96% of all taxes. The wealthy only want two things: (1) a larger share of the national income because 91% is not enough for them and (2) a dramatic reduction in their taxes. Wouldn't that be nice?

My household is in the top 25% of households in terms of income, and I fully expect to be in the top 20% before I retire in ten years. I pay more taxes than most people reading this post, but I have much more disposable income too. We don't even come close to worrying about the cost of prescriptions or gasoline. We are much more worried about the high cost of high definition TV sets, the outrageous cost of art supplies, the unamerican prices on digital cameras, and other fun items. The single mom living next door is really struggling to put her daughters through college (she and all three children have full time jobs). I presume she pays very little in taxes, and that is fine with me.

Why should MY hard-earned money go to taxes go to help a few good, hard-working kids get through college? Because in America every kid who has some spunk should be able to work her way through college. Why should my hard-earned money go to pay the salaries of policemen who patrol the south side of town? I live in a safe neighborhood and I have never been the victim of a crime (except for some jewelry and cosmetics stolen by a maid)? Because the poor kids and decent families who live on the south side deserve protection from crime.

When are you Conservatives going to realize that you are being sold down the river by your leadership?

Plus - I gotta say - blaming Washington? The Republicans had the White House and both houses of Congress for almost the entire past 7 years. So Romney's saying the Republicans (in Washington anyway) are the problem.

Mitt has not been in Washington for years like John McLaim, Clinton and Obama.

Mitt has held executive positions as a Govenor and in private business, Obama, Clinton and John McLaim have only worked in Washington they do not have a clue about private business or the American economy.

Mitt is a conservative that’s why the media hates him; John McLaim is a liberal just look who he associates with Kennedy, Feingold, the gang of 14, ect. and that’s why the media loves John McLaim.

Mitt is against amnesty for illegal aliens; Obama, Clinton and John McLaim are for amnesty for illegal aliens.

Mitt is for tax cuts, Obama, Clinton and John McLaim are against tax cuts and want to raise our taxes.

Mitt is for conservative judges, Obama, Clinton and John McLaim are for liberal judges.

Mitt wants to free Americans and American business from the federal government Obama, Clinton and John McLaim want big government and are responsible for big government we have.

Mitt will fight to protect this country and build a strong military; Obama, Clinton and John McLaim stood by when al-Qaeda attacked our interests in the 1990 and the 1980s.

Mitt Romney is the right change for America

Vote for Mitt!!!

Romney/Thompson 2008!

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated."
– Thomas Jefferson (The same would apply to the rights of free speech which McCain-Feingold so clearly violated).

"[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its
jurisdiction."
– James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention [June 6, 1788]

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free."
– John Adams, A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, 1787

"[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights."
– Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia [1782]

"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."
– Thomas Jefferson, letter to Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816

It only takes a little time reading the thoughts of the men responsible for the Constitution of this land to realize just how far off base that the government really is. And yet even with such clear supporting testimony by the very men that wrote the Constitution we have allowed our government to go astray on the basis of some supposed living document crap that more often then not is fed to the people by the Democratic party.