A RINO, but a powerful RINO! And while I'm not dismissing the importance of the social issues, on Iraq and other important national security issues Rudy is about as far from a RINO as you can get.
No offense, but I'd strongly consider voting for Rudy.
Calling Rudy a RINO is an outrage. He endured years of the most vicious attacks I've seen a NYC Mayor go through at the hands of Lieberal Demonrats. He was called a Nazi, a racist, a fascist, and ironically a far right Conservative by the Liberals who hated him. If Rudy was a RINO he would have surrendered to them the way Bloomberg has done on many occassions. Instead, Rudy stood up to the Left and never turned his back on the Republican Party. He would have given up and joined the Democrats if he were a RINO. It's disgusting to see so many Republicans stabbing him in the back after his years of loyalty to the party. For 8 years we had a Republican as Mayor in this city which was a miracle considering how Liberal this town is. He is not a Republican in name only. His enemies on the Right are stooping as low as the Left who vilified him for years by calling him things he was not. I don't know if he should be POS, but I do know that he deserves respect from Republicans for the great job he's done for the party for decades.