Dropping out, sayeth the AP. The last, best hope of conservatives in this race is now gone, and their nemesis - McCain - now wins by default.
McCain-Huckabee, here we come.
This morning I asked some of my conservative e-mailers who they were going to support if Mitt did in fact bail. Two of them said they’ll probably […]

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Man, this GOP field is all over the place. McCain edges Huckabee in South Carolina, a state I think most figured he’d lose because it is, as the AP says, such a “bastion of conservatism,” and the base don’t much like him.
So who’s the legitimate Republican front-runner at this point?

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So Mitt wins in Michigan, and the GOP race is wide-open - Huckabee in Iowa, McCain in New Hampshire and now the Mittster.
I like that Ron Paul outpolled both Fred Thompson and Rudy. But clearly this race has narrowed to the top three candidates. Mitt is the movement candidate - his constituency is people who […]

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Drudge’s headline story right about now is a WaPo piece about how Huckabee’s national chairman, Ed Rollins, gets so angry and Romney that he wants to knock out the Mittster’s teeth.

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Didn’t watch the debate last night, but everyone I talk to seems to reiterate this line, from Sullivan:
With the Biblical literalist question, you see what Bush and Rove have achieved: the suspension of secular politics in the Republican party, and, by inference, the country as a whole. This has become, thanks to Bush and Rove, […]

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…in which the cross-dressing, twice-divorced, nice to gays, pro-choice Giuliani is endorsed by Pat “9/11 was punishment for our sins!” Robertson.
In a word: Sellout.
Update: Lew Rockwell weighs in with this:
I am not at all surprised that Christian right leaders like the Rev. Robertson are endorsing men like Giuliani. The core values of the “Values Voters” […]

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Over at Sullivan’s place there’s this debate going on about Hillary - how the right is specifically using the spectre of Hillary to raise money, to galvanize supporters. Sullivan has suggested repeatedly that were the Democrats to nominate Hillary it would be a bad move for a lot of reasons -but primarily because of her […]

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…is “none of the above.”

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Over at The Corner, the National Review’s group blog, Kathryn Jean Lopez thinks Bill Bennett’s suggestion to the GOP 2008 candidates is just ducky:
Every candidate for the GOP nomination needs to stand up right now. In fact, I’d urge them to hold a joint press conference and stand up and say a) they support the […]

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Looks like manly-man Fred Thompson, Reaganesque GOP heartthrob, was a mole for the Nixon White House during Watergate.

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The American Prospect on the GOP man-crush primary:
How do you decide who gets your vote in the presidential elections? Is it determined by the candidates’ physical appearance, by the charisma they radiate or by the emotional strings they manage to tug deep inside you, conjuring childhood yearnings for security and a night-light after dark?
That’s pretty […]

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You knew Fred Thompson’s marital deal was going to be campaign fodder - because really, if he were of the “Democrat Party” Fox News would have been yapping about his “trophy wife” long ago. And, what does that say about character - or his “Hollywood values?”
But now Thompson’s first wife has gone on record supporting […]

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