I haven’t hitched my wagon to any of the candidates. But I know this: Giuliani when mayor of NY had a whole nother constituency to deal with including a destructive underclass whose only familiarity with firearms was nil and understanding of the 2nd Amend even less. Would he throw the Dems a bone by compromising the 2nd if president to buy their votes on another matter? That is another issue.
Agreed. If you wanted to be mayor of New York, a horrible job but someone has to do it, you are not going to get there by insisting on changing gun control laws or supporting an anti-abortion platform.
The mayor of NY’s control of New Yorks henious guns laws is low. Many are state laws, some are city laws. Perhaps he could have worked for loosening, and he didn’t. OK. As for abortion, changes there will come either from SCOTUS or Ammedment process, neither of which are key job responsibilities of the mayor.
I started out not like Rudy for our candidate at first, but he’s grown on me. Thompson has not impressed with his bizzare I’m in / I’m not in candidacy. Where has he offered up anything comparing to this essay telling us what he would do on this issue?
So Rudy has moved up in my thinking, and the others down a little. I could probably be happy with any of the top 3 and will vote for whoever gets the nod, but I’m more likely to vote for Rudy at this point than the others.
Duncan Hunter was my favorite on ‘ideological purity’ but he hasn’t made up the deficit in name recognition he started with. Perhaps he’ll get the VP slot, I think he’d be excellent in that role too.
I appreciate some of the energy that Ron Paul brings to the race and as much as I appreciate his fidelity to the Constitution (above all other candidates) I can not agree with his misreading of the Islamic threat (which sounds straight out of Noam Chomsky). Plus, he’s not broken out of the 1% range, like Hunter.
So, of the three or four front runners at this point I strangely find myself liking Rudy the best.