Huckabee: End energy consumption by 2010!

[K. A. Pital]

I don't know Thompson, but McCain? From what I saw in his campaign, he tries to outdo Bush in warmongering, pandering to radical Christians...

[Pablo Sanchez]

I don't know Thompson, but McCain? From what I saw in his campaign, he tries to outdo Bush in warmongering, pandering to radical Christians...

He's basically doing that because the last time he ran for president (2000) he was severely defeated in the primaries by Bush, someone who was blatantly and obviously less qualified and indeed vastly less intelligent in general than him and who went on to be one of the worst presidents in American history. This basically happened because McCain was not enough of a "good footsoldier" for the GOP and did not pander enough to the retard base.

Most of his bullshit this time around is probably done in the hopes of fixing those problems for him, and I personally believe he'd do a better job than it seems to indicate. One thing that I have to give him kudos for is his stand on torture, which is unbending and unpopular with the base (the fact that it's near heresy to say "torture is bad" at GOP debates ought to be humiliating for any registered Republican).

I'm not saying that I would ever vote for McCain or Thompson, even if they ran against Hillary. All I'm saying is, through their careers in the Senate they represent an older school of the Republican party, which, even if it is part and parcel of the awful Contract with America/Newt Gingrich period, is not nearly as bad as what Giuliani, Romney, and Huckabee represent--a continuation or even a worsening (in Giuliani's case particularly) of the Bush administration's flaws.