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the contract with american contained proposals on abortion, gays, and guns?

The Fiscal Responsibility Act
The Taking Back Our Streets Act
The Personal Responsibility Act
The American Dream Restoration Act
The National Security Restoration Act
The "Common Sense" Legal Reform Act
The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act
The Citizen Legislature Act
The Family Reinforcement Act
The Senior Citizens Fairness Act

Now I will grant you that the Bush administration may have waffled on a few things.

But look at the list of issues above - the most vocal part of the base isn't interested in what the candidates have to say about them, they are second tier issues now. Look at the anti-Rudy threads here, all anyone wants to talk about are abortion, gays, he wears a dress, etc.

Because it was over a decade ago, and I have little idea what those euphemistic "acts" really covered, I can't say what really survived from the contract. Basically it was a broad-based conservative agenda; the first time I can remember when a party laid out a platform they actually intended to enact. As I remember it, GIngrich and his allies wanted to kill PBS and the Dept. of Education. There was talk of radical tax reform, not just a few cuts. It was a heady time for conservatives of all types. Then Gingrich caved in to Clinton on the govt. shutdown (IIRC) and things went downhill. Then came Bush & "compassionate conservatism."
Lots of us are very disturbed at turning the Party over to people who are no more conservative than Lieberman, on the unsubstantiated theory that they are the only ones who will win the WOT. That kind of compromise is what got us into this mess. If frustrated conservatives attack Rudy for playing all the PC pandering games like a typical liberal Democrat, that's understandable. Can anyone imagine Reagan, or even Ford, Dole, Nixon, Eisenhower, etc. cavorting in drag or marching in gay parades? Is that Presidential? Is that what will inspire the troops risking their lives every day in the WOT?

Look at the anti-Rudy threads here, all anyone wants to talk about are abortion, gays, he wears a dress, etc.

What I find most offensive about Rudy is none of the above. I dislike the gun-grabbing and the illegal alien enabling. He disregarded the Constitution in regards to the 2nd amendment by his gun grabbing and disregarded federal law by making NYC a sanctuary city. No one gets to pick which laws and which part of the Constitution they want to uphold.