George Will has been a wishy-washy conservative at best for a long time, so it's not surprising to see him to start cheering for the likes of Giuliani and Romney.
Here are a few FACTS that the "we need to sell out our principles" crowd needs to consider:
- NO pro-abortion Republican has ever been elected president.
- NO Mayor of NYC has ever been elected to any post higher than Mayor of NYC.
- The only Governor of Massachusetts to ever become president was Calvin Coolidge and it needs to be noted that he became president on the death of Harding and the 1924 election was going to be a GOP landslide no matter who was nominated.
Your first bullet point is OK. The last two are dumb. I could reducto ad absurdum 'em, but why bother?