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In reviewing some of the literature, I ran across this:

Beyond the makeup of the presumptive field, three things are identified as working affirmatively in Giuliani’s favor.

He was a highly successful mayor of New York, precisely because he grabbed hold of a monument to liberalism-gone-wild—with a bloated bureaucracy, an institutionalized underclass and a soaring crime rate—and reformed it by applying solidly conservative principles. As Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute points out, he put law and order above everything else (instituting a “zero tolerance” approach to petty crime, for instance); tried to unleash the private sector (including abolishing or cutting 23 taxes); and took on vested interests, from teachers’ unions to the welfare bureaucracy. The result was an urban revolution: the murder rate fell by 67%, tourists returned and the private sector boomed.

In fact, Mr Giuliani can boast a solidly conservative record on all sorts of things that matter to the base. He served in the Reagan administration’s Justice Department along with John Roberts, George Bush’s appointee as chief justice of the Supreme Court. He was an aggressive special prosecutor. He trimmed affirmative action, effectively ended racial quotas at the City University of New York and championed school choice.

His second big plus is that most Americans—including most social conservatives—view Mr Giuliani above all as the hero of September 11th 2001. Mr Giuliani became “America’s mayor” that day because his decisiveness contrasted with the administration’s dithering: he rushed downtown as soon as the first airplane hit and took command amid the confusion. Mr Giuliani’s halo has not faded since in the way that Mr Bush’s has.

His third advantage is that the religious right is in the doldrums. Last November, as the socially liberal Arnold Schwarzenegger stormed to re-election in California, social conservatives bombed. Rick Santorum barely scraped 40% of the vote in the Senate race for Pennsylvania, a dreadful result for a two-term senator. And conservatives lost a series of ballot initiatives—on abortion in South Dakota and California, stem-cell research in Missouri and gay marriage in Arizona.

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Unfortunately, nobody can convince them of those facts. They still take credit for voting and NOT voting all of those so called RINOS out of office.

RINOS like Allen, Santorum, Blackwell, Steele, De Voss, and most all incumbent Republican governors were replaced by Democrats.

One of them said he helped vote out a RINO and was happy to say that he had been replaced by a "conservative". He was reluctant to give the party affiliation however, that's because that "conservative" he voted for was a Democrat, by the name of Jim Webb. Imagine that......