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He's already splitting us just fine. Can't wait to see the enthusiasm after he's nominated, should that grim day arrive.

You are asking social conservatives to stop supporting their main passion. My number one issue is guns. I despise big government and believe it will protect the wicked at my expense. In crisis time, I can turn only to myself and my family.

Rudy is a big government leftist. He may be an internationalist who would continue Bush's war, but I am ambivalent about that. It's certainly not a winning issue anymore. It got us majorities and re-election in 2002 and 2004, but is now quite stale. He may or may not be a fiscal conservative, but a president can have more impact on judges and social policy than in cutting the government. It never happens. Only grows. Even with Reagan.

No Giuliani. No way.

He may or may not be a fiscal conservative

His "fiscal conservatism" in NYC is the equivalent of a McDonald's restaurant opening up in North Korea. NYC was so mired in New Deal socialism that a hundredth of a percent tax cut would have labeled anybody governing that city at the time a conservative. That said, Rudy isn't exactly Milton Freidman.