Oh, I agree, there’s serious irony there. My current theory (and it’s being borne out on this thread) is that social conservatives who would otherwise be repelled by Rudy’s liberal social stands (pro-abortion, pro-gun-control, pro-civil-unions, etc.) will fall into line behind him simply because somebody, finally, is taking it to the Rats hard.
How many times a day do you see here on FR people yelling at the President and the Republicans to fight back, to quit letting Reid and Pelosi and Dean and the drive-by media and all the rest of the liberals and Democrats spew their lies unchallenged? Much of the Republican and conservative bases (note that they aren’t always the same thing) are very frustrated right now because we never seem to be on offense.
Well, here comes Rudy, and nobody’s ever accused Rudy of backing down from a fight. So it’s natural to get fired up and say “Yeah! Get ‘em!” even if you don’t agree with the guy on the issues. The more conservative candidates in the field, guys like Hunter, Thompson (if he runs), and so on, need to take serious note of this. If they don’t stand up and start laying the lumber to the Rats, and hard, they won’t be able to pull the votes back from Rudy that they’d need to win the nomination.
I’m no political scientist, I’m just a quality assurance tester that’s bored at work. :) But that’s my theory anyway—right now, conservatives are so frustrated by the way the past couple of years have gone, that they’ll even latch onto somebody with diametrically-opposed social beliefs as long as they’ll actually show some spine and some balls.
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Spot on. You should consider a career as a Sunday AM talking head.