[PhilDragoo]

The afternoon drive-time host on the capital city AM station which leads in ratings just kicked off the discussion of Rudy Giuliani by reading my email to him in its entirety. This followed his hosting the RNC spokesperson on Hillary's visit here in which she lauded ethanol--though voted against it 17 times in the Senate. The host is a self-described born-again Christian whose premier issue is saving the unborn. This then is my email he read moments ago:

When you bash Rudy Giuliani for leaving his "wife" remember to include that she was first and foremost a self-centered "actress" playing a part in The Vagina Monologues.

In my view Rudy Giuliani is the one candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton; the others lack the a) name-recognition; b) spine to withstand the Saul Alinsky destruction; c) ability to think on one's feet in debate; d) proven ability to handle a big executive responsibility in a large-scale terror attack (eight million residents during September 11).

Rudy's fiscal credentials have been noted by columnists from George Will to Human Events. He cut taxes in New York and made a surplus where vast debt existed courtesy of Dinkens. He cut the murder rate from 2100 to 600 with other crime stat improvements proportional. Turned off the welfare spigot and put people to work instead, a prime aim of social conservatism.

I am an NRA member (including the right to bear six fundraising solicitations a week) and I understand what Rudy did in New York was to cut crime. I think he gets that you don't come to Iowa and tell Wal-Mart they can't sell ammo, etc.

Rudy has the fiscal conservatism and the strength on national security which were the hallmarks of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Both these conservative icons stressed national security and government respect for taxpayer dollars.

Goldwater in his later years endorsed gay rights per the National Review article by William F. Buckley. Reagan began as a pro-choice Democrat and evolved on the issue of abortion.

I see Rudy evolving on abortion as well, and where it really matters (judges) he publicly says he would name the constructionalists such as Roberts, Alito and Scalia.

A win by Hillary-Obama will put a Communist and a Muslim in the White House, and will remove America from the war on Islamofascist terror. In which case we infidels will be the victims.

We win the White House, we win the battle against Islamofascism, we get more judges like Roberts, Alito and Scalia and all of that is a strong step for everything worth fighting for.

I am too much a realist--having gone door-to-door for Goldwater--to risk the unthinkable damage a Hillary Clinton victory would cause.

Newt Gingrich's Contract With America had nothing about guns, gays or abortion--and yet it was a platform for a tremendous victory against Clintonian Communism in 1994.

I appreciate Duncan Hunter's coming to Santa Fe in 2000 to speak on behalf of our former-minister Senate candidate Bill Redmond, but we don't have four years and a billion dollars to carry a single-digit candidate to the White House.

Much the same is true of Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo, and others.

Perhaps as you say, as a vice-presidential candidate a conservative could be an asset towards victory.

A team effort will be needed to get everything done--and it begins with the top-of-the-ticket victory--which must be an electoral, not a moral, one.

[Howlin]

Excellent email, Phil!!

Glad you got it read!

[onyx]

Thanks for the ping --- it is good to see Saul Alinsky mentioned --- never, never, underestimate the tactics Hillary will employ. She will do anything to win the election. She must be defeated.

[Peach]

I see more and more staunch conservatives are getting it about Rudy!

[potlatch]

I got your email today, it's a very good one.

[Parrot_was_devastating]

A team effort will be needed to get everything done--and it begins with the top-of-the-ticket victory--which must be an electoral, not a moral, one.

Congrats on the E Mail Phil : )

Recognition is the key here.
The North American P 51 Mustang began as a breakthru airframe design,
it had potential...but was lacking in a few area's
most surrounded its Allison engine which lacked power at higher altitudes.....limited its performance.
Britian having recieved the early version Mustangs went with Rolls-Royce engineers in putting the Supermarine Spitfires Merlin 61 engine into the Mustang .
after...the Legend was born
It is said that Hermann Georing knew the Reichs days were numbered when U.S. P-51's were seen over Berlin.
The war would continue...but the writing was indeed in the sky.

As your E Mail maintains,....The Republican party must win,...and not allow Hitlery and the Dem Reich to surrender gains and place America in Grave Jeopardy.

The Spitfire and Hurricane won the Battle of Britian,...but they did not have the working range that the P 51 Mustang did.
Other GOP Candidates have excellent skills and would be good choices
but they do not have the range....as you point out,..and that others here see clearly.

Recognizing potential.....recognizing Victory

[ntnychik]

Excellent letter, Phil! And congratulations for getting it on the air. There will definitely be a third party candidate. Hamilton Jordan and Jerry Rafshoon's Unity '08 is working on it as we speak. We'll need record turnout and no stay-at-homes to keep us from a disastrous Hillary regime.