[SteveMcKing]

Was 9/11 so psychologically searing -- and Rudy's healing role so central -- that some social conservatives are no longer thinking clearly.

How did I move on without Rudy? How did I ever manage without.... that guy.

Or is the trauma of Election Day 2006 to blame?

Oh the trauma.

Or today's polls?

WTF is this dweeb talking about?

How else to explain their premature openness to a GOP presidential candidate whose social liberalism and liberal social life that would have once made such a candidacy unthinkable.

There is no such condition. Giuliani is promoted by MSM for the easy candidate to defeat that he would be.

[El Laton Caliente]

Rudy is Hillary's best hope. With a 48% negitive rating she needs someone to split the Republican vote and he can do it.

[umgud]

I like Rudy also, but I'm not tempted to vote for him in the primaries.

[Graymatter]

Giuliani did well on 9/11. Hit the right notes, didn't embarrass anyone. There are thousands of mayors in America who'd have done as well. It's no reason to make him POTUS.

[FairOpinion]

The real question is:

DO CONSERVATIVES WANT TO SEE PRESIDENT HILLARY or a Republican President with a Republican Congress?

The only way to STOP Hillary IS to nominate Rudy and be sure to turn out and vote for him in the general election.

Nominating some "fine conservative" who couldn't get any of the votes of independents of Dems in the general election, is a SURE PRESCRIPTION to ensure Fuhrer Hillary.

Conservatives need to take off their blinders and not let the Dems do a "divide and conquer" act on them.

[George W. Bush]

He will have to answer pointed questions about his new and old positions. He'll have to square past statements with more recent pronouncements. How does his current opposition to activist judges jibe with his past belief that Roe v. Wade is "good constitutional law"? Is his recent embrace of a ban on partial-birth abortion inconsistent with his past opposition? What about his past support for McCain-Feingold's assault on free speech in campaigns?

Was he lying then or is he lying now or is he just a political panderer with no core beliefs?

I'm thinking panderer. I worry that, once elected, he'll stop pandering and return to his leftwing record from NYC.

[Theteacher77]

He sent mafia guys to jail and supported a policy in which babies were killed (abortion). I do not accept that trade-off

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl