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Who Does Fred Leaving Help the Most?

That question is going to be a little strange to answer.

Hawkins [1] says :

My instinct is that poll is probably a little more representative of how things would work in the real world. Fred Thompson’s supporters would probably break down like so,

* A significant group of them go for the most conservative remaining candidate in the race, Mitt Romney.

* Another group of them would probably go for Rudy Giuliani, the moderate candidate who has been beaten up the least over the last month.

* Then, a smaller group would probably gravitate towards Mike Huckabee, as much as anything because he’s the only remaining Southerner.

* Last but not least, another small group would probably move towards the front runner, John McCain.

I dunno. Romney I could almost see, absent the left-wing pandering he was doing in Michigan, a couple weeks ago. With it, I’m not convinced. Giulliani, is somewhat more doubtful. The pandering to the Hispanic vote, the “Sanctuary Cities” and so on, is a complete turnoff. Huckabee, similarly. We’ve discussed him here previously. There’s not much at this point which will convince me to vote for him.  And certainly not McCain. The only value McCain and I share is his reading on the importance of fighting this war on terror, and even there, he’s still got a major strike against him, trying to give terrorists constitutional rights.  In my view that gross misunderstanding of whom the constitution applies to disqualifies him from the office he now holds, much less the one he aspires to.

The answer I guess is Romney, though I don’t have to like it. Perhaps more correctly, I’m less than fully comfortable with it. We’ll see how this works out, but I have to tell you point blank I am non-plussed by the whole of the Republican field. Indeed, the only thing they have going for them is they’re not Democrats…. just damned close.

John has a great follow-on post, you’ll want to see, here. [2]

Rusty Shakleford makes the argument, meanwhile, that Ronmey’s the logical choice.  [3]

It’s time to support Mitt Romney. Can Mitt win in a general election? I don’t know. Certainly he has always had a better chance than Fred. And if the opposition is Hillary Clinton, then maybe.

McCain can beat Hillary. But McCain is, well, McCain.

To be honest, I’m not as down on McCain as most of my fellow Jawas and you, the readers. But that’s just because I’ve been a one-issue guy since right around, oh, let me see, I think the date was 9/11/2001.

But still, McCain doesn’t get that the border is tied in with our national security.

Mitt does. And he seems to get the war on political Islam.

Sure, Rudy also seems to get both, but it’s probably too little too late for him.

Hmmm. As regards McCain, yeah, and he still doesn’t get it right; there’s still a star next to the one positive point he has, because he still insists on turning this stuff over to the courts on a misplaced notion of ‘fairness’.

It’s in my mind that the best we conservatives are going to end up with is someone with a Bush view of what conservatism is. That is to say, a centrist calling themselves a conservative.  It’s not what we need, but it’s still better than a full-goose-bozo liberloon, like Hillary Clinton, or Barrack Obama.