C'mon. FR is a conservative organization. We do not support abortionist, gay rights loving, gun grabbing, illegal alien loving liberals as president. Never have, never will.
"I'm in the undecided category nine months before the first primary."
I can understand not settling on which of the conservative candidates to support, but surely you can rule out an admitted abortionist liberal. What's that all about?
Jim, I don't know why I have to rule out anyone today. I don't know why you have to, either. Rudy has some glaring weaknesses which have hardly been overlooked at this forum. He also has some strengths.
You can rule him out for saying that it's a woman's right to choose, but that's actually currently the law. Stating a fact shouldn't be a crime.
I'm not on this thread to defend Rudy, because he's not my candidate. There are a lot of things about him that trouble me.
But if you allow the forum to self-destruct over his candidacy, I won't be happy. I'm not happy right now, to be honest.
There's no reason this forum should be blowing up over the November 2008 election in April of 2007.
Nobody is questioning this forum's commitment to conservative values, and certainly not me. I have always said that I'll support the most conservative credible candidate available in the primary and then choose the lesser of two evils in the general, because I've never found a candidate that agrees with me 100% on everything in life.
I don't even agree with some of the posts I made four years ago.
It's your forum, and if we all have to come out against Rudy right now in order to keep our posting privileges, just say so. I'll think about it, but I don't know. I'm not for him, and I'm not against him. I don't know why I should make that decision this month.