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To have someone list Giuliani, McCain and Romney as the top tier in the GOP stands with our take. Ya, ya, Gingrich, Thompson and RINO Bloomberg may do something. But if you lean conservative you should fear Clinton continuing to lead the Dems with RINO Bloomberg threatening to drop a billion on a personal campaign.

The Republican pack doesn’t really have a second tier. It has a top tier — Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney — and then you fall off a cliff.

Not like it would be a big surprise or that this year’s debates should be impressive as few in the past, but a comment of mine has been slightly altered by the 2nd GOP debate results in South Carolina. I had said earlier that the leading candidates have nothing to gain and everything to lose in these debates and essentially they favor the weaker candidates as they have much to gain and likely lose nothing. That would be except for Ron Paul from Texas. Giuliani jumped his suggestion that we invited the 9/11 attacks. Perhaps Ron Paul meant something else or it merely was presented badly but whatever the case, the crowd response would indicate Rudy stuck a fork in him. One lower tier candidate took a hit.

As a staunch supporter of strict immigration control and related security issues, I am a big fan of Tom Tancredo. I have wondered from the beginning if he would end up a single issue candidate. It is noble to champion an issue that presents such grave danger while others find it politically expedient to avoid it. But the reality of the situation leads me to believe the candidates with much less polling percentages than the current top three will only lose ground from now on. And it seems almost clear that the panderers may win the next round on immigration. However, battles are being won by local governments who own a pair and are taking up the fight passing laws against illegal immigration where the federal government continues to fail. Hence there historically low approval ratings this week.

Our current favorite mixed it up with McCain and highlighted a reason that patriotic McCain never got the nod from us.

“My fear is that McCain-Kennedy would do to immigration what McCain-Feingold has done to campaign finance and money in politics, and that’s bad,” Romney said.

It would be better if Gingrich and Thompson would get in or shut up. Then the real deal would begin and from a manageable field of five plus trimming away the 2nd tier in a few months, progress could be made and support solidified for a conservative ticket. You start early, you gotta finish early. Or all you do is give an advantage to the opponents. And this repeatedly independent sees no hope of anything normal coming out the left. So for the foreseeable future, my right-leaning, independent, conservative philosophy if firmly attached to the GOP field of 10 waiting for two on one ticket. And BTW, the debates are really useless.

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