Of course not, but people (I don't know if you are one) who threaten to defect which, objectively, would help Hillary Clinton become President, should Giuliani win the nomination, do deserve to be maligned.
Excuse me but did Reagan leave the Democrat party or did it leave him? The GOP is going to go Democrat-lite and call their detractors defective?! This is America. We have a freedom of conscience in this country. The political party is supposed to courting my support, not demanding it. It's a market-based system. If the "leadership" of the GOP thinks they can sell Rudy, let them try. Don't be surprised, though, when market share declines due to lack of market research.
The party is truly becoming Democratic when it demands my support rather than giving me an acceptable product. Consider our "mouthing off" in the primaries a desperate shout of market research.
Then it would be considered an honorable malign. If the GOP is abandoning its established, published principle for that of the leftist liberal Democrat party - and it will have done so with RinoRudy, then RNC ought to come out and say so.
I will NOT "vote for the lesser of two evils" when voting for the lesser would trample my own conscious objections I hold for abortion, SSM, gun control, and federal nannyism.
When this life is over, whether we've stood firm upon sound principle will matter far much more to the Judge than who was elected and some cheap and temporary, false sense of "winning".