"Look, you're backing a losing horse with Rudy. A lot of voters won't even look at your 'got tough on crime' stuff."
You make the mistake of thinking you speak for most conservatives. You don't--why else would he be the front runner among Republicans? Do you think most of us don't already realize he's a New Yorker and has had three marriages and has liberal proclivities? But we also know he's a crime-fighting supply-sider who made New York a livable place again by kicking butt and cracking skulls and getting in the face of the media. A lot of us want this kind of ruthless executive ability in the War on Terror. Rudy's what we need this time around.
I do not care that much about what he did in NY. After looking at his ultra leftest record I know he is far to liberal for me ever to vote for him.