“a conservative candidate who could actually win, like Rudy”
I also liked Rudy, and would have preferred him instead of McCain except for his position on some social issues like abortion. He really did turn New York City around with his law-and-order approach. He was also the funniest candidate in the primaries, he really knows how to whack the opposition with his one-liners.
“I also liked Rudy, and would have preferred him instead of McCain except for his position on some social issues like abortion. “
Many of his critics say the same thing, but he committed in definite terms to appoint conservative SC justices like Alito, Roberts, and Scalia. This should not have been an issue, yet the single-issue pseudo-cons blew the election for us by tearing the only viable candidate we had to pieces.