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Lottsa Texans are still grateful for that band of Tennessee volunteers that came with Davy Crockett.

I’ve said this before, but I think it is worth repeating (well, of course I do - I said it, LOL):

It looks as if the drive-bys have finally dropped Huckaboob in favour of McCain, yet there seem to be an awful lot of folk (FReepers and not) trying to convince us that Romney is a conservative. He is not. Just being a successful businessman does not make one a conservative - George Soros, Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Heinz Kerry...shall I continue, or do you catch the drift?

Campaigning against Romney in the November election will be too easy - all the Demonrats need to do is show his previous positions. And, as much as I am angry with el presidente Bush, I find Romney’s mantra that “Washington is broken” to be dangerous for Republican candidates everywhere. Sure the Pelosi/Reid group has been in charge for the past year and a half, but that is not how it will be spun. “Washington” will be Republican Bush and Republican Congressional leadership. (hehe, I misspelled that...spell check wanted to change it to “concessional leadership.” Spell check knows the RINOs better than some of us do.)

So, here is my suggestion: if you are in Florida, vote for Rudy in the hope of stopping the Romney & McCain machines’ momentum. Should Rudy win, the MSM will talk about his resurgence, and there will be 3 non-conservatives competing elsewhere. It puts Giuliani back into the running in NY, and MSM may get confused about who to back among all those choices.

Since Romney bends in the wind, he will either veer left again to compete with McCain, or keep talking right, thinking that he can still fool conservatives until he wins the nomination. Then he will forget us, just as the Republican party has for years - the “where else do they have to go” syndrome. Don’t we ever get tired of the knife in our baxk?

Rudy is right on taxes, foreign affairs, crime. And he’s made the same flipflops on immigration and RKBA as Romney. If you are willing to suspend your disbelief for Mittens, you should do the same for Rudy. At least Giuliani has been honest enough not to flip his social positions, as distasteful as they are to Conservatives, so I am almost inclined to think he means it when he says he changed. Almost. Being a FRederalist, I believe those social issues are State’s Rights decisions anyway. If Rudy were to win the nomination we’ll need him to know we backed him to assure he really will appoint justices that are pro-life.

For everyone else outside of Florida, vote for FRed to keep the party aware that conservatives still want a conservative candidate (platform is not enough - remember HW Bush? never read the platform, didn’t have to follow it). The only exception to vote for FDT is if we need to keep any one candidate from reaching 1191.delegates.

It is not an easy balance, with the possibility that one of those guys will get the nomination, but if we keep the delegates distributed, none of the three will know if we supported them or didn’t, so they can’t afford to throw us overboard. I won’t count on a VP for Thompson - I don’t think he wants that - too much going for him outside that bucket of warm...spit,

We need a deadlocked convention to nominate Fred or another conservative. If not that, we need the leverage to get a conservative VP nominee.

My 10 cents (inflation, plus a post too long to be only 2 cents)