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Romney will do well here because he is a neighbor, and there is a distinct streak of provincialism. Ron Paul will do better than the pundits and state GOP activists are willing to admit. I can tell you that there are a veritable plethora of Ron Paul signs here in the central part of the state. Rudy G will do fairly well because there are a whole bunch of liberal, secular Republicans, and because Independents can vote in the Republican primary if they wish, and they will so wish, I suspect. I would not be entirely surprised to see McCain slip in ahead of Huckabee based on his support from the last time that he ran against Bush. Thompson is making a fairly perfunctory effort here. Damn shame, because his beliefs are pretty close to ours, but you got to come and ask for the vote, you have to visit a whole bunch of little towns and hold town hall type meetings with a chance to ask questions. That is not what Thompson is doing.

p>Long story short, Ms. Mair is correct, Huckabee's religiosity will work against him here in New Hampshire. At least in the real New Hampshire that will be true. What will happen in the southern part of the state with the preponderance of refugees from Massachusetts, is another thing. They have about already about ruined the state, so I try to stay among the few sane folks left here, and away from the southern tier of towns. br> -- Ken Shreve /p>

Does the Spectator really believe that columnists like Mair lend anything to their content? Liz Mair might be better suited writing for Salon or MoveOn. Readers can readily find the normal fare of Christian bashing from the usual suspects, including RINOS like Mair. Get a clue. No Republican candidate can be elected or will be elected without the single largest voting block in the nation. Without the Christian votes, the Republican Party is about as significant as the Bull Moose. While bigots on the right continue to shudder at the thought of being grouped together with the Christians, and are embarrassed by their conservatism on social issues, they stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that without them they are nothing, but a bunch of spineless, beltway blue bloods that are hopelessly out of touch with the majority of the nation.

p>The determination by the Gerald Ford wing of the Republican Party to fight for control of the party and to purge the Christian right will ultimately lead to their own demise, and an eventual one party system in this country. Republicans should not forget that without Ronald Reagan and the power of the Christian right, they would not have enjoyed their rise to power in the last quarter century. Currently, there isn't a Republican candidate on the slate that will stimulate the Christian right to come out and vote, which spells certain doom for the "enlightened" Republicans. In reality Mike Huckabee may be the candidate that has the best chance of stopping a Hillary Clinton presidency, if she can be stopped at all. If Republicans like Mair would prefer to slink back into the status of a subservient party and doormat to the Marxist left, rather than embrace their only chance for political survival, then so be it. A Republican Party without Christians, is nothing more than another Democrat Party. br> -- Rick Smith /p> p> NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Missing from the News :

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