Again, tho -- I don't believe he's a gun-grabber. He ran a city where gun restrictions made sense, to me.
Gays, I couldn't give a hoot about. Judges, I believe he'd put in constructionists. The border -- would he be any worse than GW?
I respect ya'll working to oppose him. I think what you're doing, your approach, laying out his policies/positions, is very apt. It's the 'end of the world' tone that just confuses me.
I think the rhetoric of many of the 'extreme' folks here has the potential to really work against your cause. Part of what I do like about GW is that the extremists on the left are so hysterically opposed to him. I get the same feeling about Rudy, here.
There is a huge difference. Most here do not hate Rudy or even dislike him. We can admit that he did some good things. Cleaned the streets of NY, showed leadership post 9-11, etc. What we cannot abide by is a shift left in the party that is supposed to be the conservative party.
If you look at Rudy's record on judges as opposed to what he now says, he supported anything BUT originalists. He has nothing but kind words for the abilities of that commie dingbat Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
I am not understating the necessity to bring the party back to Reagan conservatism. It is our only long term hope. Caving to the dem positions on God, gays, affirmative action, global warming, 2nd amendment, etc is a recipe not only for the GOP decline, but for this nations decline.
Just ask the Tories in England after they rejected much of Thatcherism.