I’m analyzing and speculating.
Also sincerely uncommitted with McCain and Paul being the unacceptable.
I think McCain may have gotten some promises in 2000 when he came in second to President Bush that involve the GOP insider apparatus being used to promote his candidacy in 2008.
I’m saying McCain was told like Bob Dole back in 1996 that he’s next in line.
I see flaws in everyone out there and their assets as well.
A senator would not be the best candidate nor a congressman.
That would leave only Huckabee, Romney and Giuliani in the pool as the strongest “outside the beltway” candidates.
I vote conscience usually but I understand the political considerations.
I’m voting for Fred because he is himself. He has flaws. He helped push campaign finance reform but so did the others. He is the only one speaking clearly and is unquestionably conservative and not apologetically so. The primary is about voting your conscience. I’d vote McCain before either Huckabee or Mitt. He has a more consistently conservative record than either of them. Plus they both supported Amnesty like ideas and one even employed illegals even after being made aware of it.
I believed that McCain would be tapped. It doesn’t look that way know. The media are just having fun playing with the Republican candidates. They know Mitt and Huck are dead men walking in the general election. They know what they can do to them and probably already have a strategy to take them apart. Fred stands up to the media and doesn’t cower in front of them. That alone is enough for me to vote for him.
Also he may not be a Reagan but he sure isn’t ashamed or apologetic for his country and he stood up to Michael Moore.
There is only one other who has did that effectively and that is ironically John McCain.