“Orange County representing conservatives across the U.S.?
How disingenuous. This is designed to dampen the enthusiasm and momentum to get someone decent into the WH who is very conservative.”
Hardly any of your suggestions. Merely a political reporter for a major paper, giving a survey of meeting participants.
The Orange County Register is an old, libertarian paper. Its editors can probably explain Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. (In fact this paper probably can say many good things about Ron Paul.)
The Lincoln Club is where Fred Thompson decided to go first. Therefore I conclude he was interested in input from OC, as it might reflect others across the land.
It is a news article, not an editorial page item. The “news” was Fred didn’t make a big splash.
The figures cited in the article are Republicans discussing Republican candidates.
The political types favor Giuliani or Romney, while the big money businessmen favor McCain. Dana Rohrabacher is undecided, as am I.
No need to defend garbage.
I just found it funny that people would seriously consider California, any part of it, a gauge of anything “conservative”.