THE CASE FOR ...

In today's Daily News Viewpoint section, six Friendly Fire bloggers and one ringer -- B. Daniel Blatt of GayPatriot.org -- make the argument for their candidate in next Tuesday's primary. To recap:

Jonathan likes Barack Obama: "America needs a visionary, someone who can bridge the painful historic breaches in our national soul. Barack Obama will not simply promote reconciliation; he will be an iconic model of it, proof of the deepest truth of our American Dream."

Mariel likes Hillary Clinton "for one simple reason: I think she can win. That is, unless her husband succeeds in (accidentally on purpose?) tanking her campaign by providing all that 'help.'"

Bridget -- surprise! -- is pulling for John McCain: "How can voters not love a candidate who puts his own ambitions on the line to stand behind a move that he believes is right - and, in the long run, best for our men and women in uniform?"

Robert's man is Mitt: "George W. Bush has been called the country's first MBA president, but he hardly fit that mold. Romney, however, is the mold. If he brings to bear the skills with which he built Bain Capital and his own fortune, the economy will have a chance."

Earl eyes Edwards (and to think, I thought EOH was a Hillary guy!): "Edwards has plenty of ammunition to make the case that nearly 40 million poor people in the world's richest country is an abomination that nobody seems to want to talk about. It is irksome enough that the GOP presidential candidates stay silent on the plight of the poor. It is downright infuriating that Clinton and Obama also stay mute on the issue."

Dan "The Ringer" Blatt is pulling the lever for Rudy Giuliani: "In many ways, Giuliani is the Ronald Reagan of the 21st century. Just as the Gipper helped reform the Golden State, Giuliani brought the Big Apple back to life at a time when many talked about that city's inevitable decline."

And yours truly likes the other man from Hope, Mike Huckabee: "Call his political philosophy whatever you want, but it has the potential to obliterate the tiresome blue-red binary of American politics. Huckabee also has a sense of humor and doesn't take himself too seriously -- a refreshing change in modern politics. Evangelicals are right to like Mike. They shouldn't be the only ones."

Just in case that's not enough endorsing for you, the Daily News has also offered its picks today, too -- calling for a McCain v. Obama match-up: "It would be a campaign aimed at building America up, not tearing it apart. Whatever the outcome, the public would win, and there would be no loser. The country could only be edified by such a process and, hopefully, strengthened and united for the four years to follow, regardless of who is the president."

If you get a chance, go get yourself a hard copy of today's paper. In addition to the endorsements excerpted here, we've got the results to a funny questionnaire in which the FF bloggers not only pick their candidates, but also decide such pressing matters as which candidate they would most care to be stuck with on a desert island.

So, now let the fun begin. Bloggers, what do y'all think of each other's picks? And readers, how about you?