In this election environment it is going to take both charisma and trust to win for the incumbent party, too many uninspired voters stay at home or vote for change. In the Presidency we are the incumbent party, so it is going to take someone like Giuliani to actually inspire and win over voters beyond just the base.
We are on the same page. I am fed up just like you. Having heard Rudy speak several years ago here at OU, I believe he will draw votes in from various segments. I am so tired of seeing these people say they are going to stay home if they don't like a candidate or go third party, that I don't care to hear what they have to say anymore. I am tired of the pandering to the religious right and their staying home like they did in 2006. In fact, I am tired of one issue voters that have their head buried in the sand too!
I am a proud conservative who puts our national defense at the top of my list because we have people trying to kill us, and we should have sealed the borders (both of them) sometime ago to prevent more terrorist from entering the country illegally. Instead the Administration panders to Hispanics. I am tired of pandering, 'compassionate conservatism' and kumbaya!
Now I feel better! :)
How do we know that it was the "Religious Right" which stayed home on Nov. 7? Remember 1/3 of the "Religious Right" voted for Clinton and Gore in 1996, according to a George Barna survey. Barna does surveys of church peoples. It may have been just people in general who stayed home because the Republicans did not give them, in their mistaken view, a "reason" to "bother" to go to the polls.