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To: InfraRed
Gingrich and Hunter have ZERO chance of winning a general election in the current environment. Thompson might have a chance, and I am sure he is assessing it right now. With so many primaries early, this thing will be decided before March of 2008. That means Thompson will need $20-40 million and a compelling message, because the best he can do is match Giuliani dollar for dollar.

At the end of the day, he'll find that the $20 million isn't there, just as Newt has found. The country clubbers who finance these things want a winner more than anything else, and they like what they see in Giuliani, who outpolls Hillary as of right now, without spending money. Mark my words. Thompson will flirt with it, but will not get in. Neither will Newt.

As for Freepers, the fact that 20 percent of them will support a candidate who is basically a liberal, shows that at least a fifth have the common sense to recognize political reality. The main purpose of a primary is to pick the winning candidate. If you don't do that, you've failed your party and your political conscience both. With Giuliani, you can fail your political conscience but not the party. Bad set of choices, but the only ones in this day and age.

89 posted on 03/20/2007 10:02:07 AM PDT by massadvj
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To: massadvj

Giuliani cannot win the WH. Period. I saw the 2006 election results coming months before the election arrived, and I see a Giuliani trainwreck in the making now. Giuliani is divisive.
Giuliani is more divisive than any other candidate that I can remember since Perot.
Giuliani is not just a bad candidate, he is the absolute worst candidate possible.


99 posted on 03/20/2007 10:12:04 AM PDT by InfraRed (Giuliani is divisive! We cannot afford divisive!)
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To: massadvj

I know Newt has no chance due to his already being a 'name' but not liked by the public and not helping himself with his sex scandal while Speaker as Clintoon's impeachment was going on. Now, let us in on why Hunter is unelectable? I seriously want you people to lay it out why Hunter is supposedly unelectable. Fred Thompson isn't going to cut it either because he isn't as big a star as you seem to think. Law and Order doesn't have that many viewers and he will have to sell the war having missed his opportunity to serve his country and Republicans are going to have to answer for that during this election in selling Iraq to the people.


110 posted on 03/20/2007 10:18:48 AM PDT by bushfamfan (DUNCAN HUNTER FOR PRES. IN 2008)
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