The compromise position at the Federal level is leave it to the states. If Rudy had accepted this (meager) compromise I could still support him.
He tried, but that talking point was done in by Rudy himself.
“The compromise position at the Federal level is leave it to the states. If Rudy had accepted this (meager) compromise I could still support him.”
April 13, 2007
More On Rudy’s Federalism Dodge
Andrew Sullivan implies that we take issue with federalism. Certainly not. There are certainly a great many questions, most of them cultural and provincial, that are best decided by state and local governments. And Rudy Giuliani might even be correct, in an ultimate sense, that the topics he’s been confronted with are best deliberated and adjudicated by state legislatures.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/04/more_on_rudys_f_1.html