That's fine. And there are people who stand with you.
Lots of common sense conservatives, however, are more interested in fiscal conservatives and law and order conservatives, and Rudy fits those bills beautifully.
Since we're not going to find anyone who fits the entire package, ever, then I'm going with national security. The federal goverment hasn't done anything much about abortion anyway and I've seen states like mine have much more success in one year and one piece of legislation in stopping the advance of abortion than the federal government has had since 1980.
I believe we can have both and will wait and see through the primaries what that process produces.
Either way, as I stated, I will not vote for any politcal candidate of any stripe who gets those issues wrong...they go to the heart of the moral foundation of our liberites and if we ignore and lose that, then ultimately we will lose our liberties and way of life as we know it.
Please do not take this wrong, but therer have been very powerful and very popular law and order and foreign policy candidates around trhe world in the last 100 years who had nothing to do with ultimate freedom and liberty and what we consider to be our traditional way of life. IMHO, we would be very neglect in our own responsibilities if we did not count that possibility...that lesson of history into our own choice.
It is my position that without the strong moral foundation and strong positions on those critical moral issues, those other qualities can too easily be turned to very bad things.
Again, just my opinion.