I see you have met the "foxhole freepers." To these good folks anyone who isn't to the right of Jesse Helms (one of my favorite people!) just isn't good enough.
Rudy is not only under attack from the far left but the far right. You have earned their derision because you dared to provide us an informed, "other side of the story."
By the way, welcome to Free Republic!
Jesse Helms was a great American... looked a little like Ben Franklin if you asked me...