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Whoever wins the GOP nomination, be it Fred or anyone else, will become the target of uncountable unfair hit pieces fleeing the truth by the 'Rat candidate and their MSM. How well they hold up under the plague of lies will be a key determinant in whether they, and we, survive. Weeding out those potential candidates who cannot survive such is one of the most important jobs of our primary campaign. Anyone who cannot survive it, no matter how wonderful a person or how ideal their ideology in our eyes is worthless as a final candidate to us. We might as well nominate Hillary or Obama ourselves. This is not to say we should completely scorn such candidates. They may be valuable as sources of ideas for the eventual candidate and their platform and as future leaders in their Congress and their Cabinet. Depending on the specifics of their weaknesses, we politically may or may not be able to hype their support during the general election. Hit pieces NOW are a good thing because they'll teach us, in time, who NOT to nominate. I hope God will grant us more than one winnable candidate so we can be selective and pick the best one. I have faith He'll allow us at least one winnable candidate, but my faith can't ensure more than one.

Above all else we must come together behind someone, even if they have major flaws, because we and our causes cannot survive defeat. This group of Democrats, if empowered, will change the rules and the judges such that our views will not be allowed the light of day for a generation. They are already working harder on criminalizing our speech as 'hate crimes' than they are on the mechanics of normal government. None of the current GOP wannabes, even at their Rhinoest would act to make a subsequent victory by a better conservative impossible, although I sadly must admit some could make such harder. If this Left wins the only ways our ideals of Life, Limited Government, Gun rights, Family values, etc. will be heard again would be after a disastrous meltdown by the left or by exercising the full original intent of the Second Impediment. The Jihadists might win before we could recover either way so we cannot afford failure. At worst we must at least maintain the current, far from perfect, status quo.

Although we stand within a knife's edge of failure we must also remember we are also close to major victories. Judge Stevens can't hold on forever, nor, probably, can Judge Ginsberg. Even if the left filibusters all replacements we'd probably win the court via simple attrition. Gore's temper tantrum and Bush's suicidal "New Tone" kept him from purging the left's leftovers. All our candidates see the consequences of that and none will repeat that mistake. We might have trouble getting some folks confirmed, but we won't have problems firing people. At worst we might have to make do with a smaller government. I can live with that. And if our eventual candidate turns out to be not just "good enough" but actually "good" he just might lead us to a workable majority in both houses of Congress and enough of a mandate to significantly advance our causes. We aren't the only ones within a knife's edge of failure. Within their warped world view, the left was correct to call some of our candidates in Thursday's debate "scary."