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That's taking the importance of the war too far. What good is it to win the war if we've checked our national soul at the door in the process??? Conservative social values ARE the soul of the country as defined by the founders and the Constitition. Conservative Judges, traditional-marriage, ending partial birth abortions, stopping fruitless sembryonic stem cell research, death for murderers, and other VERY important social values are NOT accecptable losses in the quest to win the war. If Republicans give up on those and other important GOP plank issues, which Giuliani disagrees with, then we ARE the bunch of immoral people that the terrorists believe all Americans are, and by sacrificing those things, we are no better than liberals that have taken over the Democrat party. There has GOT to be recognition of that fact.

It is not win the war, OR hold fast on conservative social issues. This is now an either or, it's BOTH. For six years now the war has been fought, and at the same time, lines have been drawn on constructionist Judges, gay marriage, partial birth abortion, embryonic stem cell research, and other conservative social issues, and they are not mutually exclusive. The former is the battle to protect the physical being of the nation, the latter is the battle to protect the moral fabric that allowed the nation to be created. There is no reason to compromise on the social conservative half of the plank just to get a RINO who has the war right. That is ridiculous.

If the GOP does that, then it's no better than the Democrats, and I for one would have to consider who else to vote for. Because I have always said, I am a Republican until the GOP stops standing for it's plank and traditional conservative values that seperate them from the liberal Democrat party. If the GOP leaves me by embracing some socially liberal RINO like Giuliani, they leave my vote too. And I'm not the only one. If the GOP alienates the conservative base of tens of millions like me by forgetting the conservative values that created the GOP majority in the first place, the GOP will be a minority again like it was from the 30's to the 90's when it was run by the secular Rockefeller RINOs in the first place. That would be a HORRIBLE mistake and destroy the country. Most Republicans like the conservative GOP plank just the way it is, and will NOT sacrifice the soul of the party because of a warm and likeable RINO with a nice smile. It will NOT HAPPEN!