[dirtboy]

Look, conservative majorities are dead unless social conservatives don’t ask fiscal conservatives to support socially conservative fiscal liberals and vice versa. Thta’s the lesson that will be learned the easy way or the hard way. Either way, I won’t be voting for social liberals or fiscal liberals. That you can take to the bank.

IMO there are three basic flavors of conservatism:

Social

Fiscal

And security

Conservatism is a three-legged stool.

Remove one of the legs and you fall over if you try to sit on it.

IMO, a bona fide conservative adheres to all three principles.

And IMO Rudy fails all three tests. He weats a dunce cap for his socon views, or lack thereof.

First-term Rudy was a fiscal conservative. Second-term Rudy wasn't.

And I simply don't get his security accolades. He pushed a corrupt crony for the most important anti-terror job in the country. And because of that, we're stuck with clueless Chertoff as Head of Homeland Security.

So IMO Rudy ain't even a one-legged stool.

He's a Joe Lieberman Democrat running for the GOP nomination.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“And because of that, we’re stuck with clueless Chertoff as Head of Homeland Security”

He has one clue.....amnesty.

[jwalsh07]

Actually in my previous posts I included seccons but the Engish got a bit tortured. I agree that the stool has three legs.

Torie, you're back! Good, FR needs a bit of moderation these days. If the tenor here is any indication 2008 will be a good year for Democrats. But I have hopes that we will all coalesce amigo. ;-}