If you put Thompson at the top of the ticket, I'm fine with it. Fred is Presidential material, and Mitt could deliver a few votes out west in heavily mormon states.
Mitt at the top of the ticket = deal breaker for me. Give him 4-8 years of watching conservative leadership in action, and he might be a servicable candidate.
As it stands, I honestly don't see anything but skin-deep differences between Mitt and Rudy. Both Socialists. Both statists. Both dead wrong on the 2nd Amendment. Both favor an authoritarian nanny-state over limited government. Both would move the party further to the left rather than leading the country to the right. Neither could even deliver their home state in the general election.
Why would anyone support either one over Fred? Regional sentimentality? Identity politics? I really am curious, because I haven't seen anyone make a believable case for Mitt on conservative grounds.
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