Every day I meet Republicans who believe somehow that things are as good for them today as they were in the hey-day of the Reagan years…so they allow that if McCain is nominated, they would “hold their nose’ and they cannot abide Huckabee and Romney is a issues shifter.

They should understand that 2008 may well be 1974, the Watergate year, and they shouldn’t be so cocky but be glad that anybody of any quality decided to run for president on their party’s line. Americans regard the Democrats as more competent than the Republicans by a margin of 5 to 3, more ethical by 2 to 1. They prefer Democratic policies to Republican ones from healthcare to taxes. The economy may be tailing south. The Republicans have a Rudy Giuliani with too much personal baggage plus prostate cancer. Fred Thompson is the first actor candidate to pout people to sleep and also has a virulent for latent form of cancer. John McCain is the oldest candidate for president, has dormant cancer, a wife who stole money from a Third World charity she founded because she was hooked on drugs and who got a personal favor from the prosecutors which kept her out of jail.

McCain himself left his first wife because she lost her looks after being in a car wreck while he was in stir, picked up with a nifty looker multi-millionaire whose Daddy helped him run from Arizona, and who tried to kibosh the 1st amendment. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee go together as well as the alumni from their respective schools-Harvard Business and Ouachita Baptist. Everybody but McCain thinks it’s nifty to send 12 million illegal Hispanics home at the same time pollsters are telling us the Latino vote is key.

Ron Paul is right there where the issues count: wanting to abolish the Food and Drug Administration, introducing a bill to de-Pasteurize milk, insisting the troops will be home by week’s end and the hell with what happens to the terrorists. If we only trade with the terrorists they’ll understand we mean no harm. Also what’s this stuff about the feds bombing the Trade Center in order to stir us up? He’s a joy: well, after all, what were the Twin Towers doing in Manhattan anyhow where they don’t belong? Standing there as twin sentinels they were…well…provocative, that’s what they were.

Besides, if we have any presence in the Middle East we’ll deserve what we get. Also the Federal Reserve isn’t written into the Constitution; therefore abolish it. I have one question: for a guy who raised that much on the Internet, what has he done with the dough? He’s right up there in the single digits. What’d he do with that brilliant staff of his, put it all in cardboard yard signs? Oh well, wait til he runs as a Libertarian again-being sure that he runs for reelection also to the House where he can continue the fight for term limits.

Many congressional Republicans have fallen prey to greed and lust; the Speaker looked the other way when one of his party members was importuning boy pages.

Oh we have every right to be choosy we do. Why shoot, man, we’re the majority party! Oh and by the way, there’s more similarity between Hillary Clinton and me than you’d imagine. Did you get that little repartee the other day? Nothing like being instructed by a kid who just started shaving about the nature of conservatism.

Yes, we have a lot to be picky about. And choosy. We’re big time stuff, we are. We Republicans.