So far, none of the announced candidates excite me as President. Guiliani and Huckabee are my two favorites, but Rudy will have a hard time connecting with the average Republican voter and Huckabee stands only slightly more of a chance than Gilmore. At least Huckabee is one hell of a bass guitar player.

Jim Gilmore isn’t acting like a candidate anymore. He moves down to 90-1.

1. balance budget and get federal spending under control.
2. smaller, more responsible government
3. simplify the tax code, keep marginal tax rates low, and pursue free trade policies to increase American prosperity and competitiveness
4. a culture of life in word and in deed
5. marriage should be defined as a union between one man and one woman
6. appoint judges who interpret the law, not invent it

Should I go on? Maybe because McCain’s sacrificed so much for his country and never cut and run from service?

Have you ever heard of answering the damn question?

And to answer your question I did not vote for Bush.

Bull, just because you’re easily fooled into voting for someone doesn’t mean the rest of us are. We actually require some convincing. And your constant bombardment of worthless platitudes are doing nothing to convince us.

McCain has never been a conservative.

There is an avenue of thought that Thompson is buffing up on his credentials and support to in turn make a strong splash when he endorses McCain publicly.

I wish I could take credit for coming up with the idea, but I saw it on the Political Insider:

Marc Ambinder, in the National Journal, reports that some Republicans wonder whether Fred Thompson’s presidential flirtations are part of a scheme to boost conservative support for John McCain:

“Until the middle of last month, however, [Fred Thompson] was a very informal adviser to close friend John McCain, and he would occasionally telephone donors and potential supporters on the senator’s behalf.”

“Some Republicans suspect that Thompson is an angler — that his presidential flirtations will help him serve as a fishnet to scoop up conservatives and then dump them into McCain’s basket. They think he’ll raise his stature, muse publicly about the presidential race, build up anticipation, and then, presto change-o, announce that he thinks McCain would make the best president. A good many solid conservatives — House members, donors, activists, and state party elites — in the Thompson net would follow him to McCain. Or so the thinking goes.”

If this is true, then it should show everyone just how damn stupid and ideologically inconsistent today’s “conservatives” are. Mitt Romney doesn’t have a consistently conservative bone in his body. He’s now flip-flopped on more issues that John Kerry. No one can honestly say that his new “conservative” social convictions are for real. Not to mention, he could get along real well with a certain female Democratic Senator who has an eerily similar universal health care plan to Romney’s Massachucetts boondoggle.

The only reason today’s “conservatives” like Romney is because he’s a social authoritarian, although a newly converted social authoritarian. They could care less about whether or not he’s a spender or one who increases the role of government. He’s against abortion and gay marriage and that’s all the modern day “conservatives” need to pick their horse.

Today’s “conservatives” are worse than today’s “liberals” by far.

I wish we had a strong common-sense conservative, pure capitalist, defender of individual liberty that would arise in this primary. We need him now more than ever or this country is going straight to hell. And, no, that person IS NOT Newt Gingrich.