I cannot think of a politician I have supported that I agree with 100 percent of the time. In fact, Fred Thompson co-sponsored McCain-Feingold. So there are likely to be lots of things in a candidate's past that various people are going to disagree with.
Now I could easily try to get you to support Rudy by trashing Thompson on McCain-Feingold, hammering it at you day after day after day. But it wouldn't work any more than your attempting to trash Giuliani with this or that position. It's all inside baseball stuff and will make absolutely no difference to anyone who is undecided.
Rudy Giuliani is a hero. Now, he may or may not actually BE a hero. But the American people think he is a hero because they saw it on television. That makes the guy imminently electable. His electability is the wind driving his popularity, and that will not be compromised by whatever minutae you wish to expose about him.
These attacks on Giuliani from the right just solidify his support among crossovers. The more crossovers like him, the better his numbers get (in a general election matchup), and the more likely he will win the nomination.
That isn't the point.
You were extremely condescening to Rudy critics with that post. For having the gall to look at Rudy's past actions, when he did not need our votes, as opposed to his current claims, when he does. And that is rank cynical opportunism. Rudy now wants to pretend he can shift to a pro-PBA ban position and have people believe him, when he still says he is pro-choice and he was AGGRESSIVELY pro-abort in the past. And you have the nerve to say we're wrong when we are right in questioning the veracity of Rudy's shift, GIVEN HIS PAST.