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Most of the "negatives" in this article I consider to be positives for Rudy, such as wanting to blow up the existing school system. If the Nation hates it, it can't be all bad.

However, this IMO is the most interesting part of the article:

In Giuliani's first year as Mayor, 1994, his politics were fairly liberal. He supported gay rights and gun control, he was pro-choice and he was pro-immigrant. He named Joan Malin, a holdover from the Dinkins administration, to be his director of homeless services. Giuliani stunned most observers by breaking with the Republican Party and endorsing liberal Democrat Mario Cuomo for re-election as governor in 1994, over Republican George Pataki.

Cuomo lost, but on that same day the Republicans won a majority in the US Senate and gained fifty-three seats in the House, setting the table for Newt Gingrich to become Speaker. Giuliani, the chameleon who even confused his own mother, quickly lurched to the right. He read the November 1994 election as a sea change in American politics. He wanted to swim with the new tide.

This confirms what I believe is in Rudy's core: nothing. He is first and foremost a political opportunist who will say what needs to be said to win an election and will then go with whatever direction the political winds are blowing. Which we are seeing now with his swing away from gun control. But I see nothing in his soul to keep him on that course if he wins the Oval Office - and the last president with no moral compass, Bill Clinton, was a disaster for the office, just as Bush's conservative blind spots (mostly on spending and amnesty) have severely hurt the GOP cause.

It is one thing to compromise to build a coalition to gain power. It is another to compromise values to gain power. And the worst is when there are no values to compromise, just a lust for power.