“Eugene Brookshire is a Christian conservative who intends to vote in next year's presidential election, even though none of the candidates have touched his soul. 'It's a shame we're going to be voting for the lesser of the two evils – or the 10 evils,' he said.”
Ed Cognoski responds:The Republican successes over the last quarter century are due to a grand coalition of social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and national security hawks. For various reasons, all three have been temporarily discredited, leading to poor electoral prospects for Republicans.
The social conservatives are likely to rally to ex-Senator Fred Thompson. And the social conservatives may still have enough weight in the Republican Party to get their man nominated. Whether they can get him elected in the general election anymore is less likely.
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