Useful idiots as Peggy Noonan termed them.
"tell me again how I should be confident that Rudy is going to choose "strict constructionists"." After asking this question, you quote him as saying "Scalia ia a terrific judge." His willingness to say that actually tells me more about the judges he would pick than I would learn from his saying he would pick a strict constructionist. "strict constructionist" is a very abstract expression that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Scalia has a detailed track record on the court. Perhaps he is not the best paradigm to use in picking a judge, but he is not that bad.
Dark Skies begain this discussion by attempting to convince us that Giuliani is a liberal. I have never met a liberal who thinks that Scalia is terrific. There probably is such a creature, but it must be a very rare beast. (I have lived amidst liberals of every variety for most of a long lifetime.)