I have no desire to hide any skeletons of any candidate, regardless of his/her party affiliation. Let them all hang for their past sins.
As far as "nitpicking" on personal issues, those are fair game and in play -- the same for Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani or anyone. Their past personal indiscretions speak volumes of their character. We all remember the Bill Clinton.
As for your "gun-grabbing" comment -- Giuliani has shown that he doesn't even understand the 2nd Amendment, making comments about protecting hunters' rights. Good grief!
Supporting a Democrat openly against a Republican is the most significant indiscretion Giuliani has ever made. He allowed his personal feelings get between himself and party loyalty. Now, in 2008 he might expect the same in return.
As far as other politicians having sordid personal lives, that is no excuse. Americans deserve better.
As for Giuliani being a conservative? He may be fiscally conservative, but we all know his positions on many social issues and he is FAR from conservative, even being to the left of many liberals.
"...Giuliani has shown that he doesn't even understand the 2nd Amendment..."
Neither do most 'conservatives'.
"Their past personal indiscretions speak volumes of their character."
Didn't seem to hurt Nixon, Bush I or Bush II, did it?
"Supporting a Democrat openly against a Republican is the most significant indiscretion Giuliani has ever made. He allowed his personal feelings get between himself and party loyalty. Now, in 2008 he might expect the same in return."
Strong assertion. State your proof of personal animosity between Rudy and Pataki. As for supporting a member of the opposition party, because the man is a republican he's not entitled to have a free mind and make his own choices? This is what we have been talking about the entire time: pragmatic thinking above the primacy of party loyalty. John McCain is fairly lionized by some conservatives, and yet he's revels in the role of "maverick", so what's your point? Are we to blindly follow an ideology and party that focuses on a narrow range of issues to the detriment of all else? If I offered you a low-tax, low-spending, law-and-order, get-the-bureaucrats-off-their-behinds, tough-talking conservative most days you wouldn't have an issue with him at all, I guess, so long as his name isn't Giuliani. I'm surprised that a good many haven't brought out the old canard that being a Catholic and Italian that Giuliani's first loyalties would be to the Pope and the Godfather rather than the GOP or the country.
"He may be fiscally conservative, but we all know his positions on many social issues and he is FAR from conservative, even being to the left of many liberals."
Compared to whom? Illuminate me, please.