Reply #24: I'm just reporting what I've read on those websites

[Awsi Dooger]

I know all about Guiliani's personal baggage, plus the issues that supposedly make him very unlikely to be the nominee. But on those balanced forums the Republican posters favor Guiliani by stunning margin, whether they are moderate or far right.

I don't know how the other side thinks in terms of nominees so I'm merely mentioning it here, what I've read in dozens if not hundreds of posts. McCain is basically shunned and dismissed, just like we think of Lieberman, as someone above posted. They consider Guiliani their best chance to win so they embrace his candidacy regardless of issue differences, and love the supposed tough guy image from 9/11. If it changes on those sites I'll report it here but it's been so dramatic i doubt that will happen.

On edit: I should mention that when I say right wing posters in regard to those balanced sites it's the way I think of them when I'm there. I'll see a user name and if he's a Republican-type I stamp him as a right winger for reference purposes, whether he is moderate or hard right. So when I write "right wingers" here it's merely toting the term from those sites, instead of breaking it down to slightly right leaning or hard right. No matter how far right they are, they seem to prefer Guiliani for their nomination, by significant plurality if not outright majority. Of course, it could be merely the vocal ones, the ones who blog, and not representative of what happens in the primaries.