Oh, and your "80%?" With Hillary it's 5%, maybe; with McGiuliromney, maybe 6% at best. No 80% or anywhere close to it unless you're just another RINO liberal... are you?
Let see here, Rudy supports the WOT, war in Iraq, is for a pro American foreign policy, is for low taxes, for fiscal displine, for pro growth economic polices, for government deregulation, workfare and not welfare, for small government, for school choice, for law and order, for social security privatization, for securing the border, and for strict constructionist judges. Rudy is for all these things. Hillary isn't. That's about 80%. Facts don't lie. Social issues aren't 95% of the issues and certainly aren't as important as the other issues, especially since the President has minimal influence on social issues.
This is what conservative George Will said about Rudy:
"As George Will said on “This Week,” “His eight years as mayor of New York were the most successful episode of conservative governance in this country in the last 50 years, on welfare and crime particularly." Giuliani, more than any other candidate (Romney comes the closest) has the record of taking on major institutions and reforming them. Think about tourist magnet that is New York now. When Rudy Giuliani took office, 59% of New Yorkers said they would leave the city the next day if they could. Under Rudy Giuliani’s leadership as Mayor of the nation’s largest city, murders were cut from 1,946 in 1993 to 649 in 2001, while overall crime – including rapes, assaults, burglary and auto-thefts – fell by an average of 57%. Not only did he fight crime in Gotham like Batman, despite being constantly vilified by the New York Times, he took head on the multiculturalism and victimization perpetuated by Al Sharpton and his cohort of race baiters. He ended New York’s set-aside program for minority contractors and rejected the idea of lowering standards for minorities. As far as the economy goes, Rudy reduced or eliminated 23 city taxes. He faced a $2.3 billion budget deficit but cut spending instead hiking taxes."
Rudy was Reagan's Associate Attorney General and was awarded the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, putting him along side Margaret Thachter, Billy Graham, and Bob Hope.
And really Rudy isn't as bad on social issues as you think. Here's his interview with Sean Hannity, who supports and like Rudy by the way, that was conducted last night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMAXw3ZZuYU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bM-r3dDMd8
And speaking of Ronald Reagan, Reagan said this about compromise:
"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything.
I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'
If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it."
~~ Ronald Reagan, in his autobiography, An American Life .
So Ronald Reagan believed in radical conservatives. I do too. I'm talking to one now. See my tagline. Did I mention Sean Hannity supports Rudy and Reagan hired Rudy and gave him his Freedom Award.