WEll prehaps Rudy was doing what his people of NYC wanted on certain issues. Now he has the whole United States. Prehaps those are places he decided it was easiest to negotiate to get his crime reforms and fiscal plans through. Sounds kind of like Reagan seeing the big picture, negotiate on taxes but stand firm on winning the Cold War. What was more important to Rudy, gay marriange, in New York city no less, or cutting the murder rates and saving the city fiscally. HMMMMMMMM.
He didn't "negotiate" any of these things, they are his CORE PRINCIPLES.