Al,
You're looking at this the wrong way. Let's face the facts that unless most of the Rudy supporters are at heart social liberals, all they care about is low taxes and a pro-business climate. With a conservative like Hunter, they get that - in other words, they get 100% of what they want. So do social conservatives. With a candidate like Rudy, the RINO types get all of what they want, but the social conservatives get none of what they want.
Now there's one scenario under which this simple logic breaks down: the Rudy supporters are in fact social liberals who *want* to live in a world where abortion is legal and we have an openly gay military. If that's the case, the issue is altogether different.
But that's not the case, given that the Rudy supporters have been denying such, right?
Well, if it isn't Mr. Treasonous Liberal himself. Don't you have your own pond of discontent to manage?
"Let's face the facts that unless most of the Rudy supporters are at heart social liberals, all they care about is low taxes and a pro-business climate. "
Ain't that the truth.