There's biding time and holding ground, and then there is advocating the opposing position. Rudy is advocating the opposing opinion on several hot button issues.
so long as this is the case, social conservatives should adandon electoral politics in favor of a battleground where they can actually make headway: at the individual level in the communities at large, which is traditionally their natural element in any case.
What a silly thing to advocate. Electoral politics sets the ground rules. To advocate abandoning using the franchise to influence the rules under which we live is to council subjugation to the players that remain in the game.
The ground is always under contention, and that which is not defended will be seized by the opposition. If the "values" conservatives are not fighting to define the rules our culture defines as moral, common and just, the ACLU's lawyers will be happy to do so for them, before judges appointed by electorally filled officials, using laws passed by them, administered by bureaucrats hired by them.
In the meantime, what is happening is that progress on some fronts is in danger of being stunted by obstinancy on others. The most notbale example of this is the extremely skewed nomination process, in which a minority within the GOP manages to punch above it's weight and unduly influence the available pool of candidates for general election
You're right. The moneyed "Rockefeller" pubbies do have far more influence than their numbers. But it balances out: the grassroots conservatives can't win without money and publicity; the anointed money candidates can't win without the masses in the base. Sounds like time for compromising in both directions, don't it?
I don't know about you but I'm tired of "compromise." It's time to kick ass and take names. Compromise got us both Bushs and to my knowledge the only presidents that were worse for this nation, in my opinion, Jimmy (the peanut head) Carter and Billary Clinton (Ironically, three of the four are members of the Trilateral commission. A group of 300 men that are actively pushing for a "New World Order" that does NOT include the Sovereign United States of American remaining sovereign.)
TANCREDO '08