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OK, you got me there, I don't know their relationship and I am not really a big follower of the abortion controversy myself, but please forgive me if I harbor the suspicion that GWB didn't know Guliani very well before the presidency. After winning in 2000, it is the duty of the president as titular leader of his party to be on familiar terms with all the party higher-ups across the country.
So I don't necessarily read anything into the GWB-Guliani thing. Feel free to correct me if you like, but I don't think a scattering number of counterexamples disproves my general point, which I think remains. Recall my example: if I have a kid, I want to keep tabs on who his friends are. If my kid ends up a doper, chances are that as a parent I had missed an opportunity to sense it and put a stop to it a lot early just by monitoring who he was hanging out with. THINK