Its actually faith in conservatism. When you have core convictions you don't alter them based on polls. If so we'd all have jumped on McCain's bandwagon back in 2000 when the dinosaur media had him beating Bush. Same goes for the post-convention campaign. Would I switch to the liberal candidate offered by the Demoncrats if he or she were ahead in the polls?
If a liberal wins the presidency, whether is the former co-dependent or Mitt Romney (or McCain or Rudy), I will still be a conservative. I, for one, am just hopeful that we have a choice between a conservative and a liberal in November and not two liberals.
big’ol_freeper answered you pretty well, but I wish to comment on this:
“Fred’s only shot is SC, where he is tied for #3 with . . . Rudy. Fred is lower than Ron Paul in NH!! Come on. It’s time to look soberly at the primaries.”
LOL! The primaries haven’t HAPPENED yet! Everything to this point is polling—which we all know is 100% accurate! (/sarcasm) And even if polling WERE 100% accurate, people can and do change their minds with new information. Basing the outcome of the primary process on preliminary polls ignores the interactions that occur as more information comes to light on the candidates and as various candidates fall out. Here is my current scenario:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934281/posts
I did guess Tancredo would drop out first, but was surprised he recommended Romney. He must have thought he had a better chance. Romney is my backup recommendation if Fred doesn’t make it. My current ranking of the candidates, in my preference order is:
Hunter
Thompson
Romney
Huckabee
McCain
Rudy
I’m pretty sure the bottom three will lose to the Demo candidate, whomever that may be. I’m pretty certain Rudy and McCain have no chance at getting the nomination—they don’t have the base behind them. Huckabee is a wild card; he’s taking votes from Fred and Romney, but can he last?
Where will the McCain voters go when he drops out? He’ll probably drop out after S. Carolina.
We’ll see.