"Gun control" is not a social issue. It's a constitutional one.
It's how we're going to defend ourselves if the Islamic terrorists decide to start getting busy here in America.
"Illegal immigration" is part social issue, part national security issue, part constitutional issue ("The President shall protect the US from invasion" to paraphrase that part of the Constitution.) I don't trust Rudy on this point.
Those two issues disqualify him in my eyes. Abortion is just icing on a very bitter cake.
""Gun control" is not a social issue. It's a constitutional one.
It's how we're going to defend ourselves if the Islamic terrorists decide to start getting busy here in America.
"Illegal immigration" is part social issue, part national security issue, part constitutional issue ("The President shall protect the US from invasion" to paraphrase that part of the Constitution.) I don't trust Rudy on this point.
Those two issues disqualify him in my eyes. Abortion is just icing on a very bitter cake."
Your point on the second amendment is well-taken. I am willing to trust Rudy on this point - he has often pointed towards strict constructionalists when it coes to judicial appointees. I'll take the chance.
On immigration, I trust him less.
However, in both cases, Rudy's mind may have been shaped or changed after 9/11. In any event, IF he becomes the nominee (no lock), I feel I have to deal with those question marks, as opposed to the Hillary/Obama certainty.