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To: RMF who wrote (41318)	9/13/2007 10:36:42 PM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543455

Warner is not a Republican, so I didn't mention him. I have listened a lot to the Republican presidential candidates. I don't trust Rudy as far as I could throw him; McCain's views on Iraq are totally abhorrent to me (have to stay and stay and stay), and Thompson is positioning himself even further to the right with a tendency to rely on folksy generalities in lieu of policy statements (illegal immigrants are just 12 million potential terrorists, etc). He strikes me as a knee-jerk attitude kind of guy, more of the same as GWB. So that's all the due I will give them. Give me a genuine moderate to liberal Republican who isn't pandering to the party base and I could get very interested. Those types have just about been excluded from the Republican nominating process, from what I can see. Have I missed someone like that? The current crop isn't remotely moderate or centrist. But the modern Republican party isn't either, after Rove got through with it. I think they are going to pursue their ideological zeal into a political wipeout that will force a more moderate reinvention of the party eventually. Just like the Democrats went through before and after Clinton.