That being said, I still don't believe in supporting Giuliani as the answer. I believe, as many of my friends cut from the same cloth, that supporting someone just because they have a nominal R after their name is going to work out. I think we can do better.
I have been criticized before, and will be again, but I am standing fast trying to pull the party back to the right. And I will spend many hours trying to do that on a precinct level. I do not believe third party has the ooomph to make it.
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I never said that I was going to support Guiliani. I never mentioned his name. All I am saying is that if the Republicans nominate a candidate who is not a true conservative, it would be stupid to withhold our votes from him because by doing so, we would help elect the Democrat candidate. And the Democrat candidate is going to be a true leftist. Voting for a 3rd party candidate or staying home on election day is not going to “teach” the Republican Party a “lesson.” It is only going to help elect Democrats. In fact, the only “lesson” that Republicans have drawn from this past election is that the country has supposedly moved leftward, that it doesn’t support the war, that it doesn’t want to take a firm stance on immigration and security, that it doesn’t believe in limiting government.
You are taking the right approach in trying to pull the Republican Party to the right on the precint level. We can’t expect to change the party at the top unless we have changed it at the grassroots level.