Yeah, you either have to be pro life or prochoice, a 2A defender or a gun grabber, a traditional marriage supportor or a gay rights advocate, etc.
So inother words, as long as one can come down on any side of any issue and can squeeze one's ass inside the Big Tent, one can qualify as a Republican.
Just what the RINOs exploited.
I think it is harder to get an endorsement now though. Notice Rudy has not declared a party yet.
I saw this on one of the sites mulling his run:
>>>Either McCain or Giuliani could run and win as an independent. Either one could raise the money. Giuliani, released from the deadly confines of a Republican primary, would find his liberal social views on abortion, guns, and gays to be an asset, not a fatal flaw. McCain's legendary independence on issues like tobacco regulation, tough corporate governance, campaign-finance reform, global warming, torture of terror suspects and immigration would no longer be seen as straying from GOP orthodoxy once he left the Republican primaries, but would become the basis for a very attractive campaign platform. <<<