The Pubbie candidate field could be worse. We might not have these guys.
(He said with a shudder, remembering having once dismissed Newt Gingrich as a “fucking Tofflerite Third-Waver” in conversation with a philosophy of history professor…)
(I do have to say that I would back Rudy for president, if not in a heartbeat, then in two or three max. I don’t give a damn about his social not-so-conservative issues, I want a guy who will clean up the terrorists for us like Rudy cleaned up New York. Let the social conservatives handle things at the state and local level — the President at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century needs to be commander in chief before he’s much of anything else.)
A "surly curmudgeon[], suspicious and lacking in altruism." (Robert A. Heinlein)