In the slammer they talk about their different preferences for porridge, but they all get the same porridge.

Im assuming that this a comment on how all the candidates are the same?

Either that or the germ of a debate on breakfast cereals.

LOL clever very very clever

Politics can get po faced, can't it. Prospective candidates ought to have to do ten minutes stand-up on prime time before they get endorsed.


Booooooooooooooo Lol.

Giuliani won't make it out of the primaries. Republicans will destroy him and he has a tendency to fold under pressure as he did when he was tagged to run against Clinton for the Senate.

Has a mayor ever been elected President?

Ron Paul is far too intelligent to win the republican nomination.

Romney may not even make it to the primaries because of his record of flip-flopping.

Newt Gingrich is a joke and absolutely has NO CHANCE.

Thus republicans will be left with McCain whose poll numbers sink everyday. He's too closely aligned with the failure called Georga Bush. When the surge fails conclusively, McCain will have nowhere to go with his prowar rhetoric. Howevere, with Giuliani out of the race republicans will have no one else but McCain to nominate.

With Mccain as the candidate, republicans lose badly .... in my opinion.

I feel the ground swell for Harold Stassen

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I think it depends the most on Hillary.
If she makes it past the primaries (doubtful) - then we will have a Republican president again hands down.
If it is someone else - then I agree - the Democrats will win unless they screw it up for us again.

New York as a whole is a blue state, not red and that is the reason why she won in NY. Otherwise, she could have won easily in Arkansas.

All of the top Republican contenders are moderate with different bases. Guiliani is well respected in the Republican law and order side, but is too moderate on social programs. McCain is a maverick and his too honest. But he has that mean streak and that may cost him in the Presidential run (remember John Kerry's remarks on Bush). Additionally, McCain will distance himself to a degree from Bush the same way Al Gore distanced himself from Clinton. Romney is the least well known and is not charismatic as Barek Obama. This will be ulitmate down fall as a candidate but could be a good slot for VP if iether McCain or Guiliani win the Republican nomination. Ron Paul is like Kucinich, unelectable. He may make a great VP candidate in order to attract as much of a broad base as possible. Gingrich is only running to make sure the Republican party does not go too moderate.

The key for the Republican, as well as the Democrats, is to keep their base unified. If Clinton is elected as the Democratic nominee, expect the ultra left, particularily the anti-war crowd to abandon the Democratic party come November. The only way for them not to bolt is to have Kucinich or Sen Obama as the VP.

For the Republicans, they must have a unified party front and not repeat the fiasco in 1992. The party could be moderate on many social fronts without abondoning the core principles, attack the spending of a Democratic congress and regain the fiscal responsibility it once had, and develop a clear strategy for not only Iraq, but for foreign policy as a whole that gives clear definition of what American foreign policy should be.

Hudson;
Are you referring to the majority of Americans ?

Although many Americans are confused, disenchanted, or flabbergasted about Iraq, they are not part of the anti=war crowd. The anti-war crowd is more of a political movement against military action solely based on politics of one particular party or another. And anti-war movements should not be confused with pacificist movements. A pacificist is one who is against any and all wars regaurdless of who is involved or why.

McCain, Gingrich .. moderate? .. Not hardly.

I'd say that McCain won't even make it to the primaries as his lot is looking worse everyday. His numbers have been going backwards for months and he's looking like he wants to slit his own throat.

How are the republicans going to attack democratic spending when Bush is the biggest spender in modern history?

The only clear strategy on Iraq is to get out and the American people aren't looking to republicans for any solution on Iraq or foreign policy.

As a member of the ultra-left antiwar crowd, if the republican nominee is Gingrich or some other hard core knucklehead I'll vote for Clinton even with as much as I loathe her cowardice .. and so will many others like me.

As I've said, I don't believe that Giuliani will win the nomination. Christian conservatives are not going to support him.

Basically, I have no idea who republicans are going to run as all of their candidates come with serious flaws.

I don't think Hillary, Obama, or Edwards can win the Presidency to be honest with you. It will have to be someone like Bill Richardson in my opinion.

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I agree, it has to be someone who hasn't served in Congress.

Rudy is a total shoe in for the nomination.

Right now, it's Rudy's nomination to lose.