will a true moderate be a serious contender for the gop nomination?

[Mint]

The GOP should have learned their lesson from nominating true moderate John McCain.

Moderate McCain had less to do with him losing than a failure of campaign strategy combined with hatred of Republicans because of Bush.

No, I'm pretty sure McCain's "moderate" mishandling of the financial crisis was what brought him down.

This. And hugging Bush. And continuing to take the same stance on foreign policy and then some as his predecessor. Actually come to think of it, if McCain campaigned more like Bush in 2000 instead of doing a bad imitation of Bush in 2004 he would have done far better.

[Mint]

If McCain was a conservative (without the 'neo' attached to it) the establishment would never allow him to get nominated in the first place.

[Mint]

Yes, if only McCain had advocated a return to the gold standard, an end to the Federal Reserve, an end to Medicare and Medicaid, and had told the old ladies they wouldn't be getting their social security check anymore, he would have won in a landslide.

Nice strawman.

[Mint]

Honestly if it wasn't for his neocon views on the war on terror (big if there obviously) I wouldn't mind if Huckabee was the nominee.

[Mint]

Well okay obviously I have more strong disagreements than that, but that's the one major deal breaker other than the bail outs (which he did not want).

[Mint]

they consistently nominate from the most liberal of their ranks? 

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no

Don't be silly sewer, President Feingold is doing a great job!