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To the FReepers in attendance and the millions watching around the world on Pay Per View…Ladies and Gentleman...

LLLLLLLets Get Ready to RRRumblllllllle!!!!

1,500,000,000 rounds of posts, arguments, insults, cheesy graphics, name calling, and ad hominem personal attacks that pass as debate for the FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!

"Introducing first, to my right, fighting out of the red corner, wearing their Sunday best with a gold crucifix...weighing in at 810 and 1/4 pounds...the social conservatives, the religious right, the champions of family values...from the Southern States...The Evangelicals!" (wild applause)

"And in the blue corner, wearing an off the rack suit, Goldwater ’64 lapel pin and a belt 2 sizes too small...weighing in at 141 pounds soaking wet...the fiscal conservatives, the last champions of limited government...from the Western States...The Libertarians!" (wild applause)

I don’t know how Rudy always manages to be in the wrong (right) place at the right (wrong) time. First in the middle of 9/11 and then this battle between the social and fiscal conservatives.

Chapter 1: Live From the Reagan Building

There doesn’t have to be a battle between Social and Fiscal Conservatives -in fact, the SoCons are doing everything they can to try and find a candidate that also satisfies the Fiscal Conservatives.

It’s just that the Fiscal Conservatives really, really, REALLY want to have that fight. It’s “my way or the highway” with them this time around - Rudy or bust! No one else is acceptable unless Rudy falls next February.

SoCons are trying to hold the party together in 2008 - Fiscal Conservatives want to blow the whole thing up and try reshaping the party markedly to the left, in an attempt to create a new alliance that seeks to take Democrat-leaning votes in, while purging the SoCons and Gun Conservatives.

You can read it here from the Rudophiles themselves - many of them are downright pissed-off that we got Roberts and Alito on the Court, especially in lieu of Gonzales and Miers, and are trying to demand now that such concessions should damn well be enough to compel subjugation to whatever candidate they put forward this time - even if that candidate is downright hostile to their views.

It’s about power for the Rudophiles - just like Rudy. Power at all costs, victory at the expense of any combination of principles, and a new-look, progressive GOP if they have to burn the house down to do it.

After all, there’s always room for them in other folks’ houses, so no need to value this one all that much anyway.

SoCons like myself will continue to try and put forward a candidate who pleases both sides of the GOP, Fiscal and Social. Unfortunately, the Fiscal have simply no interest in doing the same in 2008 - or at least not the Rudophiles.