[Sloth]

Nominate Rudy or another social liberal, and you will see the evangelicals and conservative Catholics who helped win this one for W staying home.

Indeed. I will not vote for a pro-abort candidate, regardless of any other issue.

[Wallace T.]

Guiliani realizes that he has two strikes against him: the first is that he is a Northeasterner. No Northeasterner has won the White House since Kennedy; no Northeastern Republican has been President since Coolidge, which really was a long time ago. The second is his social liberalism. He can't "un-Yankee" himself, but he can shed his social liberalism. Guiliani, like Bush 41, could have a "St. Paul" moment and renounce his former pro-abortion stance.