Reply #20: An outsider who galvanizes the fundie vote. [View All]

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Rudy can't make it past the Southern primaries, especially if one of his opponents has Rove or a protege of his on staff.

McCain has stretched himself so thin by trying to be everything to everyone that he couldn't handle a long campaign either, not to mention I'm sure it'll be actively discouraged for sitting Repuke Senators to run, because they'd miss votes and give us a de facto Joementum-proof majority.

However, if someone comes out of nowhere with really strong fundie cred, a clean personal life, and the willingness to be a little progressive on labor to steal some Democratic thunder, but not enough to really antagonize the big corporate money he'll start taking in once he wins the nomination, that is someone to fear. I think that's the only sort of candidate they can put up who wouldn't get crushed as bad as Dole did in '96, much less stand a chance of winning.