I like Thompson, and he's electable. I like Hunter, but he's not. He won't get more than small numbers in any poll. He's invisible. He's also got the pendulum working against him, after eight years of Bush, a loud evangelical hasn't got a prayer [heh].
But much of the anti-Rudy hatefest is unfair. I'm not signed on with him just yet and I've got some concerns myself... but I jump into these threads sometimes because I think the hate is just over the top. Frankly, if he can come out with a commitment that he'll not sign any gun control measures, he'd lock it up.
I think of all of them, Rudy gets the war on terrorists right. I think he'd prosecute the war agressively, and we need that.
But more than anything, we've got a very, very long time between now and the election. Much will happen between now and then. I hope that we can circle the wagons a little better, keep it more civil, and quit shooting our own.
Unfair?
Rudy is trying to say he is in favor of a PBA ban that has an exemption for the life of the mother. Yet he supported Clinton's veto of such a ban. That is just one example of where Rudy's past actions conflict directly with what he is saying now that he needs our vote.
And it isn't like Fred, where there are a few issues, such as his support of CFR. Rudy has so many issues that I have a hard time keeping track of them all. And his positives are blunted by the fact that he decides what laws apply to him - which is dangerous in a man who believes in aggressive law enforcement.
There is nothing unfair about most of the criticsm. Rudy is being judged by his past actions, which is the only sane way to evaluate a politician.