There is no such thing right now. I doubt that one federal judge in 1000 actually follows the constitution to the letter and the spirit it had before 1900.
The unappeasable utopian segment of social conservatives will balk, but they will be replaced with far more independents/moderates/blue dems/social lib-fiscal conserv. votes
So you think. If 20% of your base (10% of the electorate) votes soley on the abortion issue, I think you have a hard time making that up. There's plenty of people who will say, "He believes in killing babies, so I am not going to vote for him."
and most social conservatives will pragmatically stay.
Social conservatives, if they are like me, are not pragmatists. Christianity is the antithesis of pragmatism. That's the behavior of the children of the world - shift your "beliefs" and allegiances for wordly advantage. This is the solution of no honor. There is just no reason to support a flaming liberal like Guiliani, just to put the likes of the Republicans like Delay, Abramoff, Ney, and Co. back into power and covering up for moral turds like Foley and Sherwood.
Most realize that with a Dem president they get NOTHING.
We will get less than nothing with Giuliani, and we already got nothing from Bush either. For the last 4-6 years, the Republicans have finally had their first bout of governing control since the days of Eisenhower. They've done NOTHING with it. N-O-T-H-I-N-G!!!
Social Security reform? Nope.
Tax reform? Nope.
Reduction in size of government? Nope.
Reduction in government intrusiveness and unconstitutional behavior? Nope.
Avoidance of foreign misadventures (have you forgotten Bush's pledge in 2000 to avoid "Nation-Building"?)??? Nope.
Reduction in federal land holdings? Nope.
Federal government out of education? Nope.
Movement forward on defeating the homosexual priveleges agenda? Nope.
Anything besides hot air concerning abortion? Nope. Why is Planned Barrenhood still getting my tax dollars?
Elimination of affirmative action? Nope.
Shall I go on?
What exactly do you expect Guiliani to do to move any of that forward? Guiliani is a double-divorcee, adulterous, unfaithful, unstead, untrustworth, big government, social-liberal agenda a security/crime freak. That's it. Why do you trust a man with our country who broke his word sworn before God to two different women? I am sick to death of having my privacy violated by the security freaks like Guiliani, who refuse to admit the obvious that we are at war with Islam and simply go after our real enemies. Frankly, we'd be a lot more secure today if we'd just nuked Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh in 2001, and deported our Arab Muslim population back to the desert, than we are from the mideast wars.
Great post! That list is a real eye opener.