[Servant of the 9]

You sound like a shill for Clinton's campaign.

I sound like a hard core Republican terrified we are gonna lose to her by putting up a candidate all the conservatives know, but that the middle of the road voters it takes to win have never heard of.

So9

[Antoninus]

but that the middle of the road voters it takes to win have never heard of.

That's the trouble, isn't it? It's not easy to win without the mushy middle. But it's IMPOSSIBLE to win without a solid conservative base.

The trick is to keep the base solid while appealing to the middle. GW Bush was able to do that. Condi Rice, or McCain, or Giuliani wouldn't have a prayer. They'd split the base from top to bottom.