For all the Rudy backers:
Here's your chance to explain why conservatives should vote for Rudy. And please don't say 'because we don't want Hillary.' That's how Republicans lost the last election by claiming 'vote for me' because you want to vote against the Democrats.
I'm not yet sold on Rudy, but -- I'll take a crack at that question.
Because 'political conservatives' are for lower taxes, less govt intrusion into private lives, etc. All the 'Contract with America' stuff, if you remember that. 'Political conservatives' don't care about gays, would be pro-choice, etc. Which is why the contract didn't say a thing about those issues.
Political conservatives are the 'base' of the R party that gave them the 'Contract with America' win. If the 'Social Conservatives' who want govt control of social, personal issues like this are taking over the R party, then the R party doesn't stand a chance of winning in 08.
How's that?