"Hard right"?????
The guy does not support 80% of the Republican platform!
Your kind of "anything to win" logic is what is destroying conservatism.
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80% of the republican platform? Please, thats nonsense to make such a claim.
While some social conservatives hate Rudy, and certainly he’s not the most social conservative guy out there, to claim he disagrees with 80% of the platform is nonsense.
Might want to go read the entire Republican Platform as adopted in 2004 before you make such ludicrous claims:
http://www.gop.com/media/2004platform.pdf
Well over 1/3 of the document is dedicated to winning the war on Terror, so even if Rudy scored a ZERO on the rest (which he doesn’t), he’d be at 66% disagreement, another 1/3 of the document he’s hardly in disagreement across the board... so you are down to even if zero on everything else would be 33% disagreement, which he’s not.
Based on the adopted platform, there is maybe 10%-20% where you can claim Rudy doesn’t support the republican platform, which would be more spin than reality, and would be primarily on social issues, not core party principles.
The nonsensical claim that Rudy isn’t a republican is just inanity, hard social conservatives are in the primary, and they are not getting above a few percentage points in the polls.... So, those who are completely motivated by them need to organize better, or pick better people to run. Not make outlandish and completely false and ignorant claims about those who are running and winning.