Remember that it was the fiscal Conservatives, not the SoCons, who stayed home in 2006 over the spending - add to that the fact that Independents saw the party as corrupt and scandal-ridden. I think Rudy911 is just the Fiscal Cons’ way of “punishing” the SoCons and Second Amendment folks. Just listen to them on any blog, even FR, and you’ll think that the single greatest problem with America is the “iron grip” the Religious Right has on the GOP.
How better to marginalize the Cultural/Moral/Social/Gun Conservatives than to run an avowed enemy of theirs in the primaries - win the primary - and then win the Presidency?
No. There is far more need to beat Rudy911 than to beat Hillary. There is an entire movement at stake - not just the 2008 election.
Which is crazy because most social conservatives are economic conservatives and opposed all the spending the Republicans were doing.
What these fiscal conservatives, apparently, are too stupid realize is that Giuliani isn't on their side. He is a liberal, period. Social liberal Republicans almost always end up being fiscal liberals when reach office. And, Giuliani has a track record of huge spending and opposition to the Presidential line item veto while in New York.
Alienating any faction of the Republican base is disaster. But, alienating virtually the entire base over several years is the surest way to have a Watergate-like meltdown.
Well-said.
I think Rudy911 is just the Fiscal Cons’ way of “punishing” the SoCons and Second Amendment folks. Just listen to them on any blog, even FR, and you’ll think that the single greatest problem with America is the “iron grip” the Religious Right has on the GOP.
***Hmmm, you may have something there. That’s why they “feel” like they’re conservative, because they’re fiscally conservative. By your measure, is Hunter a Fiscon & Socon? How about Reagan?