**9/11 did more than wakeup America to an Islamic threat**
I don’t think we would be having this discussion if America really woke up because of 9/11. Instead we rolled over and went back to sleep.
Think about it, do you really believe that people would put social conservative issues as the most important reason to select a President during a time of major crisis. Do you think that in 1864 that Abe Lincoln reelection would hinge on his stand on Abortion? Or the biggest issue of 1944 election would be illegal immigration?
When people feel that national security and the economy is fine then social issues become the foremost topic.
You can deduct the rest from there. Rudy (9/11 man) will become less and less significant as the Iraq war winds down. My guess...people will turn their eye to home on issues like the border and the culture war on social conservatives, no matter how hard the MSM tries to avoid it, that's a 2007 political reality that all players will try to ignore to their own peril.