How Hobbsian of you. You would give me the Paul Ehrlich, Malthusian, Machiavellian (I am rather expert on him; he thought that the state was an entropic enterprise), Gibbonian blues, if I were not the proud Rudy fan that I am. :) Well, of course you know that to me, and to any thinking conservative, Rudy sucks worse than all the rest put together. ;-)
That gives me a sense of virtu (in the ancient Greek sense of the word) in the righteousness of my cause. Let the games begin! :)