I don't hate Rudy either. In fact I supported him before I learned Fred was thinking of running.
I got called a RINO a lot. What I'm trying to understand is if I have not changed one core political belief in the last last twenty years how I was "a conservative" for almost two decades, a "RINO" for 3 months and now I'm back to being a conservative. I was a conservative all along. I just want Hillary to lose. The people who throw around the word RINO too easily are sickening.
Artemis Webb wrote: "I don't hate Rudy either. In fact I supported him before I learned Fred was thinking of running."
Nor do I hate Rudy. He's one of the few liberals who have recently held public office that I consider to be "one of the good guys."
The others are Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller. All three are JFK-style liberals in the clasical tradition - strong on defense, crime and a few fiscal issues, yet very far to the left on all social and most economic issues. God bless 'em, they're a disappearing breed.
I wouldn't want to see any of the three living in the White House, but I still feel there are ways in which each could make a positive contribution to their country in a Fred Thompson administration:
Guiliani - Attorney General
Lieberman - Last UN Ambassador before post eliminated
Miller - Last Sec'y Education before cabinet post elimnated