Republican "A" and "B" list candidates (2008).

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guliani is more liberal than pataki on social issues.  Either way neither are getting the nod

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Romney(who I personally like and is my 2nd choice) is fuzzy on some issues(well what Governors aren't?) and simply said is from MA. Why would the GOP shift north if they're more sucessful in the south?

On the contrary, I think we need a northern candidate so that we don't get typed as a southern party.  Everyone knows that the Democrats aren't a national party.  What has yet to be seen is, are the Republicans?

Considering the fact that, outside of New hampsiere once, the GOP hasn't wonanything on the west coast or Mid-Atlantic & NorthEast since 1988 I would say no

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nick,

if it is a veiled attempt at outting Condi, it if odd, but maybe not too odd,  that it is only the Dems on this site that have engaged in soft core gay bashing.   what happended to inclusion?

For starters I think the post was sarcastic and even if it wasn't it wasn't him soft-core gay bashing, he was pointing out that the base of the GOP party will never vote for a lesbian.  Also the fact that Condi is a black single pro-choice woman makes her a bad fit for the base of the GOP, who pretty much always vote for married white pro-life men.

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Smash,

I wasn't taking a shot at nick, at least not personally.  It just seems that some here, especially those on the left, keep stereotyping the GOP as rabidly anti-gay.  While I don't support gay marriage, I have no problem with legal guarantees for domestic partners.  However, some of the left leaning members of this board seem to bring up GOP anti-gay sentiment, yet I don't see any GOP posters on this board displaying signs outting US Senators. 

My post was more of an observation than an accusation.

When you have people make statements of pure hate like Demint, Bunning & Coburn have and wind up getting elected it makes you wonder sometimes and then you have Dobson, Robertson, Falwell & others make some of their idiotic comments.  Now do most Republicans subscribe to that type of thinking?  Probbaly not, but that sect of the party as had more & more influence over the past few years and has basically become the base of the gOp, and without their support i don't think any gOP member advances in the primary, if they have the influence in 08 as they have now