A loser as a political consultant.... hmm...
Oh, well. He's no Jim Leach, thank God. Nussle is a conservative who managed to win re-election consistently as his district went Democratic. He is prolife. On immigration, he is a proponent of tough border control, interior enforcement, stopping asylum abuse, ending chain migration, and eliminating the visa lottery BUT he is a supporter of amnesties.
I'm not positive I'll vote against Rudy. He's been pro-choice, but as much as I normally hate political pragmatism, the stone-cold fact is that NYC would never elect a pro-lifer. In the meantime, he did incalculable good for NYC, miraculously winning conservative victories in a city whose average voter is as liberal as a typical state university professor of Feminist Political Deconstruction.
I'll need to hear him say that he'll appoint constructionist or originalist judges and I'll be satisfied, since the US Supreme Court is where the issue of abortion will be fought for now.
A very logical and reasonable point, and one that the unappeasable crowd should understand as they swarm this thread.