A Republican Advantage

At this point, as this piece points out, Republicans have at least one advantage in the 2008 presidential sweepstakes -- they're not being pushed toward their fringe with the same force and rapidity that the Democrats are.

That's particularly important for Republicans, given that the press coverage of the right flank of the Republican Party seems almost designed to portray it as a collection of kooks, haters and weirdos, while analogous behavior on the left fringe of the Democratic Party is often dismissed by the MSM as an aberration.