Bill Quick on the remainder of the GOP field:
None of them can be trusted very much on any of the issues I care about, from immigration, to liberty, to the Second Amendment, to a lessening of federal power, or to federalism itself. They are all, to a moderate or greater extent, wedded to statism, and I think it has now become quite clear that the GOP, once, but no longer, the party of conservatism, small government, and liberty, is now just another statist gang like their counterparts who are very slightly across the left/right divide from them.
I am now officially one of the uncommitted. Any party or candidate who wants my vote will have to earn it, by my standards.
I’ll prefer Rudy, but by process of elimination. He’s not a conservative, but he’s not pretending to be one either, and so will do the least damage to the movement in governing. Plus I think his judges will be law and order types, which I can live with, and his foreign affairs stance is the best of the entire field, including better than Fred Thompson’s would have been.
He can also beat Hillary like a hot knife through butter.
In the head to heads Rudy now does worst. His implosion since Sept. is real.
Rudy has “moderated” I believe the term used is “flip flopped”, on gun ownership (he used to believe in registration and suing gun manufacturers), parial birth abortion among other issues.
The man not pretending is John McCain. And no, that is not a McCain endorsement.