The problem is that voting for Rudy, or Huckabee or McCain would be every bit as likely to send the Nation over the cliff described above as voting for the Democrat or staying home.
Rudy, Mike and McCain have no more commitment to liberty as society’s organizing principle than Hillary or Obama. They are just Republican versions of the bipartisan party of government. Nor is any of them likely to prosecute the Arab and Persian War with any more vigor than a Dem. None of them has shown any indication that he understands what we are up against, or what it will take to overcome our enemies.
Roe v. Wade would be no more likely to fall if any of those three were appointing justices than it will be if a Democrat gets to pick. None of them understands why Roe was wrong or what a sound approach to constitutional interpretation looks like. The best we could hope for from any of them would be a stream of Anthony Kennedy clones. Personally, I’d rather have more Breyers. I’d prefer more Justices who are clearly wrong and wrong clearly to more Justices with heads full of mush who get it right now and then by accident.
Romney might be preferable to a Democrat, but then again, he might not. He is the classic pig in a poke. Since he will say anything the relevant audience wants to hear, there is no way to assess what a Romney administration might look like. Romney plainly holds no principle higher than his own ambition, and people like that are dangerous in high office. I won’t vote for him because I don’t trust him and I won’t take responsibility for him by supporting him, even as a last resort with Hillary as the only alternative.
If Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain or Romney is the Republican nominee 2008 we will have gone 24 years since the last time a movement conservative headed the Republican ticket. Conservatives can’t afford to wait another eight years for our next crack at taking the party back. If any of those four is the Republican candidate the best remaining scenario for 2008 is a Democrat victory followed by a conservative reconquest of the GOP.
If any of the fearsome foursome were to win the general election, which seems unlikely no matter what conservatives choose to do, it would be time to start talking about a third party because the GOP would probably no longer be useful as a vehicle for conservative politics.
So what to do if the GOP doesn’t nominate Fred or Duncan? Stay home and go to bed early on election day. Get up the next day prepared to deal as best you can with the wreckage.
The problem is that voting for Rudy, or Huckabee or McCain would be every bit as likely to send the Nation over the cliff described above as voting for the Democrat or staying home.
Essentially, your saying that "there is no difference between the parties"; that is pure sophistry.